Android Actionbar items as three dots

Question

I have a menu for my main activity (res/menu/main_menu.xml) and I want only one item on the Actionbar and the rest shall be hidden under three dots menu.

The problem is, I never see the three dots item on my actionbar. Why I can't see three dots item? How to force items to be hidden under it?

Note: I use minSdkVersion="14" and I test in AVD.

Answer 1

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"      xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">      <item android:id="@+id/menu_item_share"         android:title="@string/share"         android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_share"         app:showAsAction="ifRoom"         android:actionProviderClass="android.widget.ShareActionProvider" />      <item         android:id="@+id/empty"         android:title="@string/options"         android:orderInCategory="101"         app:showAsAction="always"         android:icon="@drawable/baseline_more_vert_black">          <menu>              <item android:id="@+id/action_settings"                 android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_preferences"                 app:showAsAction="ifRoom"                 android:title="@string/settings" />              <item android:id="@+id/action_help"                 android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_help"                 app:showAsAction="ifRoom"                 android:title="@string/help" />          </menu>      </item>  </menu> 

You will need to add the baseline_more_vert_black icons to your res/drawable... folders once you've downloaded them from here.