Items Not Showing In The Actionbar With Showasaction=“always”

I'm new to Android programming and currently trying to get the Actionbar working. My problem is, that although I set an item in the XML file to 'always', it constantly ends up in t

Solution 1:

try android:showAsAction instead of app:showAsAction. Or if you're using the appcompat_v7 backport, use both android:showAsAction and app:showAsAction(Thanks to Commonsware).