Unable to cast Action Provider to Share Action Provider

Question

Below is the code for my Activity

    import android.app.Activity;
    import android.os.Bundle;
    import android.support.v7.widget.ShareActionProvider;
          


        

Answer 1

menu:

java:

MenuItem menuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_share);
mActionProvider = (ShareActionProvider) MenuItemCompat.getActionProvider(menuItem);