Actionbar menu item with submenu doesn't work on Android 4.4 after long click

Question

We use ActionBar in application. It contains several menu items with icons. One of them is "Help" at top-right corner. It has sub-menu with some items. If user makes long-press on menu item then ActionBar shows tool-tip. Also on Android 4.4 if user clicks on menu-item with sub-menu and slide finger down it expands sub-menu.

For a while user sees both tool-tip and expanded sub-menu. The problem is that after clicking on one of sub-menu items root menu-item no longer work it doesn't expand sub-menu and even highlighted. However other menu-items on ActionBar still works. Seems it's bug in Android's ActionBar implementation. Both tool-tip and sub-menu got some new animation effects on Android 4.4 so maybe some concurrency problem with them.

I'm currently looking for any workarounds. Any help will be appreciated.

Menu xml declaration.

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <item
        android:id="@+id/rate"
        android:icon="@drawable/rate_button_bg"
        android:title="@string/menu_rate_title"
        android:showAsAction="always" />

    <item
        android:id="@+id/like"
        android:icon="@drawable/like_button_bg"
        android:title="@string/menu_like_title"
        android:showAsAction="always" />

    <item
        android:id="@+id/share"
        android:icon="@drawable/share_button_bg"
        android:title="@string/menu_share_title"
        android:showAsAction="always" />

    <item
        android:id="@+id/help"
        android:icon="@drawable/global_icon_help"
        android:title="@string/menu_help_title"
        android:showAsAction="always">
        <menu>
            <item
                android:id="@+id/item_quick_start"
                android:showAsAction="always"
                android:title="@string/quick_start_tour_text" />

            <item
                android:id="@+id/item_faq"
                android:showAsAction="always"
                android:title="@string/frequently_asked_questions_text" />

            <item
                android:id="@+id/item_help"
                android:showAsAction="always"
                android:title="@string/contact_customer_support_text" />

        </menu>
    </item>

</menu>

Create menu:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_home, menu);
    return true;
}

Process clicks:

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    if (R.id.item_quick_start == item.getItemId()) {
        // do some stuff
        return true;
    } else if (R.id.item_faq == item.getItemId()) {
       // do some stuff            
       return true;
      ...
    } else {
        // Default value
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}

Answer 1

Found workaround. If I call invalidateOptionsMenu(); then menu item remains to work.

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    if (R.id.item_quick_start == item.getItemId()) {
        // do some stuff
        invalidateOptionsMenu();
        return true;
    } else if (R.id.item_faq == item.getItemId()) {
       // do some stuff            
       invalidateOptionsMenu();
       return true;
      ...
    } else {
        // Default value
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}