Android appcompat showAsAction="never". Submenu doesn't appear

Question

I have an almost empty android project which uses appcomat.
I have one menu item which needs to be always hidden (shown only in dropdown when it's clicked)

    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_settings"
        android:title="@string/action_settings"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        app:showAsAction="never"/>

It's working as expected on my Nexus7 but on Galaxy S3, with Android 4.3, the icon in the actionbar isn't shown at all.

Answer 1

Because Galaxy s3 is not tablet and it has hardware menu button which will open your menu. So if there is hardware menu button you will not get overflow button.