Different menu icons for Android Honeycomb and above

Issue

In my application I use light Action Bar in which I place icons of menu items. So, these icons are black, but in Android Gingerbread (and lower) menus are displayed in black background. I need to use a white version of the icons in that case. I placed white icons in res/drawable and black icons in res/drawable-v11:

└── res
    ├── drawable
    │   ├── ic_action_auth.png
    │   ├── ic_action_refresh.png
    │   └── ic_action_web.png
    └── drawable-v11
        ├── ic_action_auth.png
        ├── ic_action_refresh.png
        └── ic_action_web.png

Running my app in a Jelly Bean emulator, icons are correctly displayed in black (so drawable-v11 is used, as expected). But in the Gingerbread emulator, icons are displayed in black too, and I can't get why. I don't know what details I can give you more. This is one of the menus I created, the single version of the resource res/menu/menu.xml:

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >

    <item
        android:id="@id/action_refresh"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_refresh"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="always"
        android:title="@string/action_refresh"/>
    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_auth"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_auth"
        android:orderInCategory="101"
        android:showAsAction="always"
        android:title="@string/auth"
        android:titleCondensed="@string/auth_condensed">
    </item>

</menu>

Solution

Try making another drawable folder: res/drawable-hdpi-v11

Another option would be to use ActionBarSherlock so your app can have an ActionBar on older versions of Android. That's what I would recommend, personally.

Answered By - Karakuri