showAsAction = “always” is ignored in Toolbar

Question

After switching to toolbar there is a problem with menu icons. Although I set for a menu item android:showAsAction=\"always\" it does not show the icon, I can only find it c

Answer 1

With AppCompat there is a little change. If you are running lint it will complain about it. Type this:

You need to declare the "app" namespace and reference it.