title: Android ActionBar Menu Icons not appearing
body: <p>Before you Tag as a duplicate question: I've read:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20512644/action-buttons-doesnt-show-up-on-action-bar">Action buttons doesn&#39;t show up on Action Bar?</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18099221/action-bar-not-showing-action-view-icons">Action Bar not showing action view icons</a></p>
  
  <p>and </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25625239/android-icons-dont-appear-in-action-bar">Android: Icons don&#39;t appear in Action Bar</a></p>
  
  <p>But the issue is not resolved. My action bar will only hold the menu items in the overflow. I cannot get the icons to appear on the action bar itself.  </p>
  
  <p>The code for my menu is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"&gt;
  
  &lt;item android:id="@+id/homeIcon"
      android:title="@string/Home"
      android:icon="@drawable/ic_home_black_24dp"
      android:orderInCategory="1"
      app:showAsAction="always" /&gt;&lt;/menu&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have declared the support header files but it hasn't made a difference. 
  I tried replacing the word 'app' in "app:showAsAction" with my app name as it appears in @strings but it will not accept it because the app name has white space. </p>
  
  <p>it is called my App instead of myApp.</p>
  
  <p>Is there that the reason why i can't get any icons in my actionBar, if yes is there a way to resolve it.. without recreating my app? i tried changing the name in @strings and that didn't resolve the issue, so it could just as easily be something else.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance community! </p>