app:showAsAction ifRoom is not working on appcompat action bar

Question

I have an action bar with the following menu items;

Answer 1

In case someone else gets into the same problem - I could not get the button to show up until I overrode the onCreateOptionsMenu function and Inflated the menu (I am using com.android.support:appcompat-v7:24.2.1 version)

Here is the code snippet:

 @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu (Menu menu){

        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.toolbar_menu, menu);
        return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
    }