Adding a button to the Action Bar in Android?

Question

For some reason, I cannot get my button to appear on the Action Bar. I have defined it in an XML file in /res/menu, along with inflating it and listening for an action. The icon is present in /res/drawable-hdpi. And nothing of interest shows in logcat. :(

XML:

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" > <item android:id="@+id/logout" android:icon="@drawable/logout" android:title="Logout" android:orderInCategory="100" android:showAsAction="always" /> </menu>

Code in main activity:

public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity { @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater(); inflater.inflate(R.menu.main_activity_actions, menu); return true; } @Override public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) { // Handle presses on the action bar items switch (item.getItemId()) { case R.id.logout: //logout code return true; default: return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item); } } //rest of app }

I followed this question for my initial problem, and it didn't help. How to add button in ActionBar(Android)?

Zoran · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-27 14:45:38Z

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Try with this change:

 <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:yourapp="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" > <item android:id="@+id/logout" android:icon="@drawable/logout" android:title="Logout" android:orderInCategory="100" yourapp:showAsAction="always" /> </menu>

answered Jun 27, 2014 at 14:45

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2 Comments

IAmTheSquidward Over a year ago

Awesome! That did the trick! Is there a way to make my button a rectangle rather than the traditional square?

Zoran Over a year ago

I know you can set custom layout to menu item by using android:actionLayout="@layout/layout_name" in item tag. But maybe better ask another question for this

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