Menu not showing up in Activity - Android

Question

I have written a code for Menus's in Android but it is now showing up in my activity, here is my code

I am only displaying my relevant code here,

Manifest.xml

<uses-sdk
        android:minSdkVersion="15"
        android:targetSdkVersion="21" />

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/AppBaseTheme" >

MainActivity.Java

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
        // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
        // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
        switch (item.getItemId()) {
        // Some action here

        }
    }
}

main.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"
    tools:context="com.example.androidex1.MainActivity" >

   <item android:id="@+id/item1"
       android:title="one" />
    <item android:id="@+id/item2"

        android:title="two" />
    <item android:id="@+id/item3"

        android:title="three" />
    <item android:id="@+id/item4"

        android:title="four" />

</menu>

Steps tried before

Menu Items are not showing on Action Bar

Result:

Tried but still menu's are not appearing

Android options menu not displaying

Result:

Menu's still don't appear.

Android Menu not showing up

Result:

Never added that attribute.

Option Menu does not appear in Android

Result:

super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu); is also added in the code but still the menu's don't appear.

My problem I would like to see only the menu not the actionbar, what could be the problem ? I am not getting any errors and the main problem is that I am not able to see the menu itself.

Answer 1

Since I am coding fully with kotlin you need to add this into onCreate or onCreateView

setHasOptionsMenu(true)

Answer 2

You are inflating the wrong menu file:

getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);

Your menu file must be named main.xml according to your code.