Use options menu without action bar

Question

I'm am using this to hide the action-/titlebar in my android application

this.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);

I created my options menu with this:

MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.bottom_menu, menu);
return(super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu));

And this is the bottom_menu.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:id="@+id/refresh"
        android:title="Neu laden" />
    <item android:id="@+id/settings"
        android:title="Einstellungen" />
    <item android:id="@+id/logout"
        android:title="Ausloggen" />
</menu>

When I press the menu button, the app crashes. When I don't hide the action-/titlebar, everything works fine. I already found this question on SO, but I don't solve the Problem: Hide Actionbar, Show Options Menu

Answer 1

I found the problem myself, stupid...

I changed:

public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {

to

public class MainActivity extends Activity {