Android ActionBar item with Text Only

Question

I want to place an item in the actionbar that has only text. I am using ActionBarSherlock. How can i do this. One is define an icon with a text. I would not prefer to do that . Is it possible to have a text item from my string resources ?

Answer 1

Just don't define the

android:icon

field in the menu.xml for that item.

Answer 2

Just figured this out, make sure to add android:showAsAction="always"

<item 
    android:id="@+id/menu_item"
    android:showAsAction="always"
    android:title="@string/menu_title" />