Android actionbar not visible

Question

I am trying to add an option menu in actionbar to my existing app but it is not working. If I create a new project with \"hello world\" default app I can see the button in a

Answer 1

Have you tried to set the app theme to a theme that supports the ActionBar, like Theme.Holo.Light?

Also, in your Activity you can try getActionBar().show();.

Answer 2

In my case, what fixed the issue, was the answer of this question; to remove

android:theme="@style/AppTheme"

from the tag in the Manifest.

Answer 3

Check Your manifest file In the Activity declaration if this line is there then delete it.

android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar"

Answer 4

Make sure you don't use:

requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);

in your layout .xml file.

Answer 5

your main activity needs to be like this:

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.ActionBar;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuInflater;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
    actionBar.hide();

    actionBar.show();
    actionBar.setSubtitle("subtitle");
    actionBar.setTitle("title"); 


}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
    return true;
}

@Override  public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
    case R.id.action_refresh:
      Toast.makeText(this, "Menu Item 1 selected", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
          .show();
      break;

         default:
             break;
             }
    return true;
    } 



}

and your main.xml like this:

 <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >

     <item
         android:id="@+id/action_refresh"
         android:orderInCategory="100"
         android:showAsAction="always"
         android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_search"
         android:title="Refresh"/>
    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_settings"
        android:title="Settings">
    </item>

</menu> 

this is a good and simple guide to creating an action bar: http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/AndroidActionBar/article.html

Answer 6

In my case Action bar menu was not visible when used public class MainActivity extends Activity { } but was visible when used public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity{ }