If we run this we can see that we now have a dark Holo ActionBar while the rest of the app has a Holo.Light style:. In the next part of this series we’ll look at applying some basic colours to our ActionBar, and then start setting some of the custom ass

This class describes how to use the v7 appcompat support library's Toolbar widget as an app bar. There are other ways to implement an app bar—for example, some themes set up an ActionBar as an app bar by default—but using the appcompat Toolbar mak

I do not think you can add a menu without action bar. But, there are 2 approaches I can think off. Create and Action bar of the same color as that of the background so that it does not show, next add the menus. Just add a button on the top right corner of