Android ActionBar菜单图标未出现

Question

Before you Tag as a duplicate question: I've read:

Action buttons doesn't show up on Action Bar?

Action Bar not showing action view icons

and

Android: Icons don't appear in Action Bar

But the issue is not resolved. My action bar will only hold the menu items in the overflow. I cannot get the icons to appear on the action bar itself.

The code for my menu is:

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

<item android:id="@+id/homeIcon"
    android:title="@string/Home"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_home_black_24dp"
    android:orderInCategory="1"
    app:showAsAction="always" /></menu>

I have declared the support header files but it hasn't made a difference. I tried replacing the word 'app' in "app:showAsAction" with my app name as it appears in @strings but it will not accept it because the app name has white space.

it is called my App instead of myApp.

Is there that the reason why i can't get any icons in my actionBar, if yes is there a way to resolve it.. without recreating my app? i tried changing the name in @strings and that didn't resolve the issue, so it could just as easily be something else.

Thanks in advance community!

Answer 1

Probably you are not using AppCompat (or not using it in this particular situation) then android:showAsAction . Yes, Android Studio will complain and recommend to use app:showAsAction but it works.