Android actionbar icons always in overflow

Question

I declared my menu items with android:showAsAction="ifRoom". My Activity is extending ActionBarActivity. In preview it is as expected but when run on my phone is it always in overflow.

From what I've seen nothing else is needed. My phone runs in Android 4.4.2 KitKat.

Am I missing anything else?

Answer 1

You have to define your own namespace, if you want to use the showAsAction attribute with ActionBarCompat(I assume you are using ActionBarCompat because you mentioned, that you're extending ActionBarActivity):

xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

and use showAsAction like this:

<item [...] app:showAsAction="always"></item>