Android differences in menu

Question

I have the following problem:

I compile my application for Android 4.4.2 using actionbarsherlock. When run it on the android 4.4.2 emulator it looks like this:

When I run this application on my phone with Android 4.0.4 I saw this:

The menu at the top was gone. How can I fix this?

Сompile this http://wptrafficanalyzer.in/blog/adding-action-items-and-overflow-menu-items-to-action-bar-in-android/

Answer 1

If your device or emulator has a physical menu button, the overflow items from action bar are behind it. The menu button is added to actionbar if there is no physical menu button.

Question How to force action bar overflow icon to show has an answer on how to put the overflow items to actionbar menu instead of physical menu button.

Answer 2

Have you ever heard of support v7 appcompat ? Use it's ActionBar.

Answer 3

Seems like your phone has hardware menu button.