Android appcompact not showing copy action from context action bar for text selection
I am facing a strange problem.
When I use the Android puzzle theme as my default theme and then select text in the webview, the contextual action bar displays correctly.
<style name="MyTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
</style>
But when I use the compact holo app theme, select everything and copy the action.
<style name="MyTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light">
</style>
Where is my problem? My app supports Android 4.0+ devices
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Because in your menu.xml file you are using the attribute app:showAsAction="ifRoom"
for the non-app commpat theme. Please change app:showAsAction="ifRoom"
to android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
and should work
Example
For this style
<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light">
works under the menu
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
tools:context=".MainActivity">
<item android:id="@+id/pase"
android:title="@string/action_settings"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:icon="@drawable/abc_ic_menu_paste_mtrl_am_alpha"
//look here is a different
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"/>
<item android:id="@+id/copy"
android:title="@string/action_settings"
android:icon="@drawable/abc_ic_menu_copy_mtrl_am_alpha"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"/>
<item android:id="@+id/action_settings"
android:title="@string/action_settings"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:showAsAction="never"/>
</menu>
For this style
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
works under the menu
<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=".MainActivity">
<item android:id="@+id/pase"
android:title="@string/action_settings"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:icon="@drawable/abc_ic_menu_paste_mtrl_am_alpha"
//look here is a different
app:showAsAction="ifRoom"/>
<item android:id="@+id/copy"
android:title="@string/action_settings"
android:icon="@drawable/abc_ic_menu_copy_mtrl_am_alpha"
android:orderInCategory="100"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom"/>
<item android:id="@+id/action_settings"
android:title="@string/action_settings"
android:orderInCategory="100"
app:showAsAction="never"/>
</menu>
Also, if you are using Theme.AppCompat.Light
, you should be using ActivityActionBar in your code.
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