i am setting an actionLayout on a menu item and setting background color and image, but it's not respected. in my activity, i have:
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.submit_action, menu);
my submit_action is:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item android:id="@+id/action_submit"
android:actionLayout="@layout/check"
app:showAsAction="always" />
</menu>
my check layout is
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
style="?android:attr/actionButtonStyle"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#e8e8e8"
android:clickable="true"
android:contentDescription="lol" >
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:contentDescription="@null"
android:scaleType="centerInside"
android:src="@drawable/ic_action_tick" />
</RelativeLayout>
but even with all of this setup, this is how the action bar appears, not showing my menuitem at all (but it's there, because it responds to the click, but doesn't appear):