title: Android appcompat actionbar menu item showAsAction not working
body: <p>I have a menu item that is showing up on android 4.x but not on 2.x. Here is my menu.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" &gt;
  &lt;item
      android:id="@+id/menu_filter"
      android:title="Filter"
      app:showAsAction="always"/&gt;  
  &lt;/menu&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is my actionbar style</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;style name="style1_actionBar" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar"&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:background"&gt;@color/blue_dark&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:textColor"&gt;@color/white&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="actionMenuTextAppearance"&gt;@color/white&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="background"&gt;@color/blue_dark&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>
  
  <p>Edit: removed double quote typo</p>
  
  <p>Could it be the fact that I am showing only text, no icons?  I'm kind of stuck here.</p>