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Android Build a Blog Reader Android App Using Intents to Display and Share Posts Easy Sharing with Intents

Dylan Cairns
Dylan Cairns
11,191 Points
Posted by Dylan Cairns
Dylan Cairns
11,191 Points

ShowAsAction only available on newer API?

I'm going through the last few steps of the blog app and when I try to create the share icon it gives me a yellow warning in the xml view that : "Attribute "showAsAction" is only used in API level 11 and higher (current min is 8)"

The program still runs but it does not show the share icon. How do I get around this?

2 Answers

Heather Spence
Heather Spence
5,356 Points
Heather Spence
Heather Spence
5,356 Points

Make sure you have app:showAsAction instead of android:showAsAction in your xml file. That is what worked for me.

<item android:id="@+id/action_share" app:showAsAction="always" android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_share" android:title="@string/action_share" />

Pablo Rocha
Pablo Rocha
10,142 Points
Pablo Rocha
Pablo Rocha
10,142 Points

Make sure you have "always" as an app, not android.

    <item android:id="@+id/action_share"
          android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_share"
          android:title="@string/action_share"
          app:showAsAction="always"/>