Action Bar Buttons Showing Only In Overflow (not Extending Actionbaractivity)

I can only find solutions to this for the case of using the support library. Facts: build.gradle: dependencies { compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar']) compile

Solution 1:

Found it! The problem was in the Manifest. I had this in the activity declaration:

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.Dialog"

Removed it and now I can see the action buttons in the action bar.