Android options menu icon won't display

Question

I\'m following a book on Android Development to get myself started writing my first real app. I got up to the point where I\'m making an options menu for one of my activitie

Answer 1

On Android 3.0+, the preferred approach for the options menu (a spillover menu in the action bar) will not show icons. If you have android:targetSdkVersion="11" or higher, icons will never show up in menus on Android 3.0+. The icons will show up if you promote an options menu item to be a toolbar button, and the icons will show up on Android 1.x/2.x devices.