How to display both icon and title of action inside ActionBar?

'always|withText' will work if there is sufficient room, otherwise it will only place icon. You can test it on your phone with rotation.

<item android:id="@id/menu_item"android:title="text"android:icon="@drawable/drawable_resource_name"android:showAsAction="always|withText" />

You can create actions with text in 2 ways:

1- From XML:

<item android:id="@id/resource_name"      android:title="text"      android:icon="@drawable/drawable_resource_name"      android:showAsAction="withText" />

When inflating the menu, you should call getSupportMenuInflater() since you are using ActionBarSherlock.

2- Programmatically:

@Overridepublic boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {    MenuItem item = menu.add(Menu.NONE, ID, POSITION, TEXT);    item.setIcon(R.drawable.drawable_resource_name);    item.setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_WITH_TEXT);    return true;}

Make sure you import com.actionbarsherlock.view.Menu and com.actionbarsherlock.view.MenuItem.

What worked for me was using 'always|withText'. If you have many menus, consider using 'ifRoom' instead of 'always'.

<item android:id="@id/resource_name"android:title="text"android:icon="@drawable/drawable_resource_name"android:showAsAction="always|withText" />