Error inflating class when using showAsAction on 2.3

[andytriboletti]

I'm using ActionBarSherlock in my project and I updated to the latest version. I'm trying to make the app work with Android version 2.3. Here's the xml for one of my menu files:

<item
    android:id="@+id/search_menu_item"
    android:actionLayout="@layout/conversation_name"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_about"
    android:showAsAction="always|withText|collapseActionView"
    android:title="(1)"/>

The error I get is 09-23 15:08:30.143: E/AndroidRuntime(3384): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
09-23 15:08:30.143: E/AndroidRuntime(3384): android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #7: Error inflating class

Line #7 is showAsAction.

I tried using a custom namespace 'yourapp' and doing yourapp:showAsAction but then the app wouldn't compile.

[andytriboletti]

Nevermind this wasn't the issue. I calling invalidateMenuOptions in onCreateOptionsMenu and it was working in 4.x but not 2.3. I changed it to use onPrepareOptionsMenu and it's working fine now.