I am developing small Android application in which I am using action bar with some menu items. One menu item contains sub menu. Now what I want to do is to display menu item with text and icon always.
I define menu items in following manner.
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="@+id/card_menu"
android:icon="@drawable/abc"
android:showAsAction="withText|always"
android:title="cards">
<menu>
<item
android:id="@+id/C1"
android:title="C1"/>
<item
android:id="@+id/C2"
android:title="c2"/>
<item
android:id="@+id/C3"
android:title="C3"/>
</menu>
</item>
<item
android:id="@+id/notification"
android:actionLayout="@layout/notification_icon"
android:icon="@drawable/notification"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:title="Notifications"/>
<item
android:id="@+id/filter"
android:icon="@drawable/filter"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:title="Filter"/>
</menu>
Now what happens is my action-bar displays my items properly; only thing is that when window is in portrait mode it shows only image, and when window is in landscape mode it shows image and text both. But I want image and text in both mode.
How to do that? Is there any way to solve this?
Best Answer
If you are using the ActionBar from the Android Sopport Library (android.support.v7.app.ActionBar), you might need to change your menu and item declaration from:
to
I had a similar problem when providing the compatibility to older android versions.