icon in menu not showing in android

Question

I want to add menu handler to my project. I read http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/menus.html too, its very simple but the icon is not shown. I am very confused. I even added a menu item programmatically.

My code is:

@Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {     menu.add(0, 0, 0, "Quit").setIcon(R.drawable.ic_launcher);     getMenuInflater().inflate(R.layout.menu, menu);     return true; } 

and in xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">     <!-- Single menu item           Set id, icon and Title for each menu item      -->     <item android:id="@+id/menu_bookmark"            android:icon="@drawable/update"           android:title="@string/Update" />  </menu> 

Answer 1

After Long try i found below solution which might help others to save there time. Basically, the solution provided by "lbarbosa", i like to thanks to him sincerely.

Tried this based on the previous answers and it works fine, at least with more recent versions of the support library (25.1):

@Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {     getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);      if(menu instanceof MenuBuilder){         MenuBuilder m = (MenuBuilder) menu;         m.setOptionalIconsVisible(true);     }      return true; } 

Answer 2

If you're running your code on Android 3.0+, the icons in the menu are not shown by design. This is a design decision by Google.

You can read more about it in this on Android developers blog.