Android Studio: No Menu Icon Showing - android

I'm new to Android Studio and I am trying to create a note app. However, I can't seem to interact with my action bar at all.
I am using the latest version of Android Studio. I was looking some tutorials of Android Studio, videos of one year ago, and in the videos, the app emulator showed 3 dots (the settings icon) on the top-right corner of the action bar. However, mine doesn't create it. It doesn't create any menu icon. In fact, I do NOT have a menu sub-folder on my RES folder, and my MainActivity.java does NOT have the onCreateOptionsMenu and onOptionsItemSelected methods that should be created by default.
Any way I can fix this? How can I add a simple icon my action bar?
Thank you

You can add these methods manually by clicking CTRL+O (shortcut for override methods) and choose these two methods from the list.
You can also write them from scratch or copy-paste them from somewhere.
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Try all the different templates in the New Project menu. Maybe some of them works for you. And good luck. This appears to be some weird bug.

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