title: getActionView() of my MenuItem return null
body: <p>I just would like to tweak the View of an ActionBar MenuItem by code.</p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately, it seems that  getActionView always return null!</p>
  
  <p>My code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@Override
  public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
      MenuInflater inflater = this.getSupportMenuInflater();
      inflater.inflate(R.menu.folder, menu);
      return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
  
  }
  
  public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(final Menu menu) {
      MenuItem menuFolder = menu.findItem(R.id.menu_folder);
      Log.i("", "* onPrepareOptionsMenu *" + menuFolder);
      Log.i("", "* getActionView *" + menuFolder.getActionView());
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Log is:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>01-11 22:13:42.884: I/(7893): * onPrepareOptionsMenu
    *com.actionbarsherlock.internal.view.menu.MenuItemWrapper@41401ac8</p>
    
    <p>01-11 22:13:42.884: I/(7893): * getActionView *null</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Thank a lot for any help</p>
  
  <p>Edit:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" &gt;
  
      &lt;item 
            android:id="@+id/menu_folder"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_archive"
            android:showAsAction="always"/&gt;
  &lt;/menu&gt;
  </code></pre>