Menu in actionbar not showing in next activity

Question

I am trying to duplicate the three dots menu in the actionbar to my other pages/activities. In my app I use buttons to navigatie to he next screen. I copied the code:

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

But nothing shows up in the next screen. I also tried adding items, standard it only has 'settings' but that doesn't work either. I imported the view.menu. The Actionbar itself with my appIcon does show. Making a new xml in the 'menu' folder as used in the code above, does not work.

manifest:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.example.ql"
    android:versionCode="1"
    android:versionName="1.0" >

    <uses-permission android:name="com.example.ql.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="com.example.ql.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE"/>

    <uses-feature
        android:glEsVersion="0x00020000"
        android:required="true"/>

    <uses-library android:name="com.google.android.maps" />

    <uses-sdk
        android:minSdkVersion="8"
        android:targetSdkVersion="18" />

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

        <meta-data
        android:name="com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY"
        android:value="AIzaSyCPlVHMostdkcJrs5YvkCXxHQaR94LrxEc"/>

        <activity
            android:name="com.example.ql.MainActivity"
            android:label="@string/app_name" >
            <intent-filter>

                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />

            </intent-filter>
        </activity>

        <activity
            android:name="com.example.ql.ContactActivity"  >


        </activity>

        <activity
            android:name="com.example.ql.MediaActivity" >
        </activity>

        <activity
            android:name="com.example.ql.CommunityActivity" >
        </activity>

        <activity
            android:name="com.example.ql.PersoonlijkActivity" >
        </activity>

        <activity
            android:name="com.example.ql.NieuwsActivity" >

        </activity>

        <activity
            android:name="com.example.ql.PortalActivity" >
        </activity>

        <activity
            android:name="com.example.ql.StreamActivity" >
        </activity>

        <activity
            android:name="com.example.ql.GpsActivity" >
        </activity>

    </application>

</manifest>

Style.xml

<resources>

    <!--
        Base application theme, dependent on API level. This theme is replaced
        by AppBaseTheme from res/values-vXX/styles.xml on newer devices.
    -->
    <style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="android:Theme.Light">
        <!--
            Theme customizations available in newer API levels can go in
            res/values-vXX/styles.xml, while customizations related to
            backward-compatibility can go here.
        -->
    </style>

    <!-- Application theme. -->
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
        <!-- All customizations that are NOT specific to a particular API-level can go here. -->
    </style>

</resources>

Answer 1

Your style should use the holo style as base:

<resources>

    <!--
        Base application theme, dependent on API level. This theme is replaced
        by AppBaseTheme from res/values-vXX/styles.xml on newer devices.
    -->
    <style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light">
        <!--
            Theme customizations available in newer API levels can go in
            res/values-vXX/styles.xml, while customizations related to
            backward-compatibility can go here.
        -->
    </style>

    <!-- Application theme. -->
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
        <!-- All customizations that are NOT specific to a particular API-level can go here. -->
    </style>

</resources>

Answer 2

After making a tutorial for googlemaps in a different project I migrated the working code into my other project, which is discussed up here. I tried the application and it still didn't work well, still no menu and still no different theme. Then I went to my 'build target' and I saw that the google playserverice 'is library' box was checked, I unchecked it and tried my application, And now it did work, different style and it showed the menu-items I added in the default menu.xml.

Thank you all for your awnsers