ActionBar items appear always in Overflow Menu

Question

I am trying to add actions item in action bar, but items always are adding into the overflow list even there is lot of room. Any suggestion to resolve this ??

Answer 1

As per the document

If your app is using the Support Library for compatibility on versions as low as Android 2.1, the showAsAction attribute is not available from the android: namespace. Instead this attribute is provided by the Support Library and you must define your own XML namespace and use that namespace as the attribute prefix. (A custom XML namespace should be based on your app name, but it can be any name you want and is only accessible within the scope of the file in which you declare it.) For example:

    
    
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