Menu icon is not displaying in action bar

Question

I need to inflate custom menu in Fragment.

I have only one menu item.But the icon is not displaying.

Can someone tell what is wrong with my code

My menu.xml

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"  >

<item
    android:id="@+id/search"
    android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_search_category_default"
    app:showAsAction="always"
    android:title="Search"/></menu>

And I set in onCreateView()

    setHasOptionsMenu(true);
    getActivity().invalidateOptionsMenu();

And inflating the menu

@Override
public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    inflater = getActivity().getMenuInflater();

    inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu, menu);

}

Resulting screen attached below. I need to have the search icon instead of the menu overflow icon.

Answer 1

I know I'm a little late for the party, but hope I can help someone else. Today I was facing this SAME problem.

I fixed using android:showAsAction="always" instead of app:showAsAction="always"

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">

<item android:id="@+id/bluetooth_status_off"
    android:orderInCategory="0"
    android:icon="@drawable/bluetooth_red"
    android:title="@string/app_name"
    android:showAsAction="always" />
</menu>

on the showAsAction is underlined with red (warning), but works fine.

Answer 2

I Think You should use

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"  >

<item
android:id="@+id/search"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_search_category_default"
app:showAsAction="always"
android:title="Search"/></menu>

and

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.mymenu, menu);
    return true;
}