Android Question Icons not appearing in action bar or game menu - Resolved.

[Computersmith64]

Hi all,

I recently received an email from a user of my Five Dice! app on a Lenovo S8 tablet, telling me that the 2 icons that should appear on the action bar aren't there - & they aren't in the game menu either. I asked him to send me screenshots that confirmed what he said was true - so I thought I'd post here to see if anyone else has come across this issue & knows of a workaround for it.

I did find a couple of references online about other developers having the same issue with Lenovo hardware, but nothing that suggested any fix that seems doable in B4A.

- Colin.

 

[Erel]

but nothing that suggested any fix that seems doable in B4A

Which fixes were suggested?

Maybe the icons are too large?

 

[Computersmith64]

Actually, there were no suggested solutions specific to the Lenovo issue, but for the general issue of action bar icons not showing, setting android:showAsAction="always" was suggested - but I'm guessing that this is what the AddToActionBar parameter in AddMenuItem3 does?

The icons are 32x32 per the style guidelines & I haven't seen this issue on any of my devices, nor had it reported by any other users - so I don't think it's happening on a large number of devices.

- Colin.

 

[Erel]

If you have access to this device then check whether the buttons moved to the overflow menu.

B4A uses the SHOW_AS_ACTION_IF_ROOM constant.

Try to decrease the icons to 24 x 24: https://www.google.com/design/spec/style/icons.html#icons-system-icons

 

[Computersmith64]

Turns out (as I suspected) it was an issue with the Lenovo flavor of Android on the device. The user installed a new update from Lenovo & the issue was magically resolved.

- Colin.