Android ActionBar MenuItem LowerCase

Question

I want to make MenuItem title in the ActionBar to LowerCase.

my menu.xml

Answer 1

Solution for native ActionBar implementation:

If you are using ActionBarSherlock there are two different approaches:

1) Create boolean resource abs__config_actionMenuItemAllCaps and set it to false:

    false

2) Or create theme with overriden actionMenuTextAppearance and use it in AndroidManifest.xml:

PLEASE NOTE: there is bug in ActionBarSherlock that forces MenuItem to be upper case on pre-ICS (https://github.com/JakeWharton/ActionBarSherlock/issues/969). I've submitted patch but it is not merged at the moment. For now you can use my fork: https://github.com/alexander-mironov/ActionBarSherlock/tree/dev, I will update this answer when my code is merged in the main repository.

UPDATE: my fix has been merged into main ActionBarSherlock repository.