How to display both icon and title of action inside ActionBar?

Question

I need to display both icon and title of action inside ActionBar.

I've tried "withText" option, but it has no effect.

Answer 1

'always|withText' will work if there is sufficient room, otherwise it will only place icon. You can test it on your phone with rotation.

<item android:id="@id/menu_item" android:title="text" android:icon="@drawable/drawable_resource_name" android:showAsAction="always|withText" /> 

Answer 2

You can create actions with text in 2 ways:

1- From XML:

<item android:id="@id/resource_name"       android:title="text"       android:icon="@drawable/drawable_resource_name"       android:showAsAction="withText" /> 

When inflating the menu, you should call getSupportMenuInflater() since you are using ActionBarSherlock.

2- Programmatically:

@Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {     MenuItem item = menu.add(Menu.NONE, ID, POSITION, TEXT);     item.setIcon(R.drawable.drawable_resource_name);     item.setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_WITH_TEXT);      return true; } 

Make sure you import com.actionbarsherlock.view.Menu and com.actionbarsherlock.view.MenuItem.