Try pressing the MENU button on your device or emulator, and see if they appear in the overflow.
If they do, then the problem is that your <menu>
XML needs to change. Menu XML that works with ActionBarSherlock and the native API Level 11+ action bar will not work with the AppCompat action bar backport.
Your menu XML would need to look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:yourapp="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
>
<item android:id="@+id/item_menu_ok" android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_ok"
android:title="@string/ok" yourapp:showAsAction="always"></item>
<item android:id="@+id/item_menu_cancel" android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_cancel"
android:title="@string/cancel" yourapp:showAsAction="always"></item>
</menu>
And you would need to use the same yourapp
prefix for anything else related to the action bar (e.g., yourapp:actionLayout
).
You can see this covered in the action bar documentation.