actionlayout on menuitem does nothing

Question

i am setting an actionLayout on a menu item and setting background color and image, but it\'s not respected. in my activity, i have:

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Answer 1

Try app:actionLayout="@layout/check" instead of android:actionLayout="@layout/check".

If you're using ActionbarSherlock or AppCompat, the android: namespace will not work for MenuItems. This is because these libraries use custom attributes that mimic the Android APIs since they did not exist in earlier versions of the framework.