Android action bar menu item with actionLayout not working properly

Question

Hi I am developing an Android application. In my application I am using Sherlock action. I\'ve defined few menu items in action-bar like in following manner

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Answer 1

Accepted answer didn't work for me. My submenu behaved different on different devices. On Motorola Moto X it was like this:

You can see that sub-menu is in wrong position (I clicked on bubble icon on the right of ActionBar).

So at the end I came up with different solution: use PopupMenu instead. Code looks like this:

@Override
public void onCreateOptionsMenu(final Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
    super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater);
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_fragment_chat, menu);
    final MenuItem item = menu.findItem(R.id.menu_item_actionbar_avatar);
    MenuItemCompat.getActionView(item).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            showProfileMenuPopup(v);
        }
    });
}

public void showProfileMenuPopup(View v) {
    PopupMenu popup = new PopupMenu(getActivity(), v);
    MenuInflater inflater = popup.getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_avatar_actions, popup.getMenu());
    popup.setOnMenuItemClickListener(new PopupMenu.OnMenuItemClickListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem menuItem) {
            return false;
        }
    });
    popup.show();
}

And it worked :)