“No resource identifier found for attribute 'showAsAction' in package 'android'”

64
votes

I am attempting to update my android application to look better for tablets running Honeycomb. As such, I am targeting version 11 of the SDK (my minSdkVersion = 4). This adds the Honeycomb theme to my app, making it look better. However, I have no way to access my menu options. So, I am attempting to add my menu items as an action bar item with the following in the file in my /res/menu/ folder: 

android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"

However, I get the following error:

No resource identifier found for attribute 'showAsAction' in package 'android'

I tried altering my minSdkVersion number to 11 to see if it would work, but no luck. Any ideas? Thanks!

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androidandroid-layoutandroid-actionbarandroid-menu
I immediately thought it was because showAsAction was added in API level 11, but you've taken that into consideration it seems. – Codemonkey
That's what I had thought, which is why I added it. But, since I am developing in Eclipse, I needed to change my entire project target to #11, as Jason suggested below. – ariets
I got this error when I changed my project target to version 8. It turns out showAsAction was mentioned in the XML files when the target was higher, so I simply removed that line from the XMLs that gave the error and it solved the issue. – Superbest

9 Answers

65
votes

If you are building with Eclipse, make sure your project's build target is set to Honeycomb too.

33
votes

remove android:showAsAction="never" from res/menu folder from every xml file.

22
votes

all above fix may not work in android studio .if you are using ANDROID STUDIO...... use this fix

add

xmlns:compat="http://schemas.android.com/tools"

in menu tag instead of

xmlns:compat="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

in menu tag.

16
votes

Add "android-support-v7-appcompat.jar" to Android Private Libraries

15
votes

Add compat library compilation to the build.gradle file:

compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:19.+'
5
votes

The problem is related to AppCompat library. With it, you have 

xmlns:appname="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

and possibly:

appname:showAsAction="never"

in menu.xml file.

Without the lib, you can only have:

android:showAsAction="never"

and my app works with menu both on Android 4.3 and 2.3.3.

0
votes

Check your compileSdkVersion on app build.gradle. Set it to 21:

compileSdkVersion 21
0
votes

go to gradle and then to app.buildgradle then set compileSDKVersion to 21 and then if necessary the android studio will download some files

0
votes

From answer that was removed due to being written in Spanish:

All of the above fixes may not work in android studio. If you are using ANDROID STUDIO please use the following fix.

Use

xmlns: compat = "http://schemas.android.com/tools"

on the menu label instead of

xmlns: compat = "http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"