onCreateOptionsMenu is never called

Question

I am having some trouble getting an options menu working in Android. I have built apps before, and they all worked fine, but now the menu just doesn\'t pop up.

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Answer 1

In the latest versions of Android when using the compat library for toolbar, is very common that this happens, in order to get the menu items to display in the toolbar you must do the following:

mToolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(mToolbar);
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);