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How to add menu when there is No Action Bar

I want create a menu in my application which has no action bar... I want to make it just like you can see in chrome browser... Please help me with this and sorry for I don't have any code I made for this purpose ....Thanks in advance

I don't really get what you are asking, so I will try to list all posible meanings:
Use Toolbar(ActionBar)'s menu but layout doesn't have Toolbar:
Just add a toolbar to your layout:
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<com.google.android.material.appbar.MaterialToolbar
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"/>
</com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout>
...
</LinealLayout>
Custom Toolbar
I have never tried to inflate Menu into a non-Toolbar and I think it is not possible. Please correct me if you have tried! So I think you must implement every view/button, etc... one by one.
No toolbar, just menu (Popup ?)
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/popup-menu-in-android-with-example/

Android toolbar custom image view icon with drop down list

I want to provide a numbered month's list dropdown with calendar icon click on the app toolbar. I am having two issues/questions to implement this.
Unable to place calendar, icon with out disturbing the title (NavHost traversed fragment names).
Don't know how to show a clickable drop down list with some options on that icon
With the help of internet, I have implemented single activity and multi fragment (Jetpack navigation) architecture app as shown in below image.
Below is the code I have tried to implement this:
And here is App screenshots with different behaviors
When I uncomment above code (21 to 35), I see 1 and 3 of below images and If I comment that ou, I see 2 and 4.
For the first issue, is it just a UI trick to update the RelativeLayout width to warp_content of child ? or any other way to achieve this properly.
For the second issue, I didn't find a one step or atleast two step solution. Every where it shows Navigation menu option, when I try for "Android toolbar clickable dropdown list".
My Final goal: Show a calendar icon with months list click able dropdown (1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 9months ... e.t.c) on the right side of the toolbar when user lands on Invoices page for filtering

Make this in xml layout file:
<com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout
android:id="#+id/appBarLayout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent">
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/app_bar"
style="#style/MyTheme.ToolbarStyle"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:paddingStart="12dp"
android:paddingLeft="12dp"
android:paddingEnd="12dp"
android:paddingRight="12dp"
app:title="#string/app_name"/>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/yourImageView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="16dp"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
app:srcCompat="#drawable/ic_your_icon" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
</com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout>
You need use popup menu. Make xml file for menu. For example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:id="#+id/month1"
android:title="1month" />
<item
android:id="#+id/months3"
android:title="3months" />
<item
android:id="#+id/months6"
android:title="6months" />
<item
android:id="#+id/months9"
android:title="9months" />
</menu>
And than use menu in activity. Create instance of popup menu, set listener for it and set listener for youe image. Write this in onCreate function:
ImageView image = findViewById(R.id.yourImageView);
PopupMenu popupMenu = new PopupMenu(this, image);
popupMenu.getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_your_name, popupMenu.getMenu());
popupMenu.setOnMenuItemClickListener(new PopupMenu.OnMenuItemClickListener() {
public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) {
//Do what you want
return true;
}
});
image.setOnClickListener(view->{
popupMenu.show();
});
May be this is not the most optimal way, but it must be work as you want.

I found the answer, for my multiple fragment and single activity architecture ("Jetpack navigation") related menu/custom action icons in toolbar
Note: Below 1,2,3 helps to solve above problem statement 1 and the remaining helps 2
Create another menu file with required content.
Populate it with `onCreateMenuOptions in the desired fragment
(Note: Include setHasOptionsMenu(true) in the onCreate)
If you inflate a menu in this onCreateMenuOptions, you new menu will be appended to the already existing one of parent/main activity inflated.
override fun onCreateOptionsMenu(menu: Menu, inflater: MenuInflater) {
inflater.inflate(R.menu.invoice_list_menu, menu)
super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater)
}
Create a sub menu. in the menu item with radio checkable group. See the last screenshot for example
override onOptionsItemSelected(item: MenuItem) to capture the menu clicks. Make sure you are updating the checkable status of the radio item.
Note: Make sure you are using the style="#style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Toolbar.Primary" from above 2nd link, to get the proper white overlayed nice action bar. Otherwise you will end up having some dark text colored action bar with out known why
Below links are helpful to understand more:
Android developers docs Menu (To understand things inside menu)
Android material menu action bar implementation (To create a proper action bar with material design compatible)
Extended ActionBar guide (To add search to toolbar and create collapsable toolbar )
Android Jetpack Navigation example contained menu usage
Below screenshot is the final output and code reference

Add submenu in a Navigation Drawer

I'm trying to add submenu in one of item that It is in my menu like Wallapop that when click in a Item of Menu, open submenus:
This is my XML file, a simple LinerLayout with ToggleButtons to form the Menu:
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/linearlayout_container_menu"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="0.7"
android:orientation="vertical">
<com.runator.ui.widget.text.CustomToggleButton
android:id="#+id/tooglebutton_menu_runsfeed"
android:textOn="#string/menu_runsfeed"
android:textOff="#string/menu_runsfeed"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/tg_menu_runsfeed"
android:drawableStart="#drawable/tg_menu_runsfeed"
style="#style/textMenu.item"/>
<com.ui.widget.text.CustomToggleButton
android:id="#+id/tooglebutton_menu_leaderboards"
android:textOn="#string/menu_leaderboards"
android:textOff="#string/menu_leaderboards"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/tg_menu_leaderboards"
android:drawableStart="#drawable/tg_menu_leaderboards"
style="#style/textMenu.item"/>
<com.ui.widget.text.CustomToggleButton
android:id="#+id/tooglebutton_menu_runators"
android:textOn="#string/menu_runators"
android:textOff="#string/menu_runators"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/tg_menu_runators"
android:drawableStart="#drawable/tg_menu_runators"
style="#style/textMenu.item"/>
<com.ui.widget.text.CustomToggleButton
android:id="#+id/tooglebutton_menu_virtual_races"
android:textOn="#string/menu_virtual_races"
android:textOff="#string/menu_virtual_races"
android:visibility="gone"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/tg_menu_virtual_races"
android:drawableStart="#drawable/tg_menu_virtual_races"
style="#style/textMenu.item"/>
</LinearLayout>
I do not get what makes Wallapop, if anyone has any ideas I would be very grateful.

Menu items doesn't show up on the actionbar [duplicate]

This question already has answers here:
Actionbar not shown with AppCompat
(3 answers)
Closed 9 years ago.
I am using appcompat in my app. I want the menu items to show on actionbar or at least the overflow(3 dots) to show them when there is no room. There is lot of space on the actionbar, but still they don't show up. The menu flow raises from the bottom and that too only when menu button is pressed.
menu_activity.xml:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" >
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_lang"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:title="#string/menu_lang"
android:icon="#android:drawable/ic_input_lang"/>
</menu>
activity:
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_activity, menu);
return true;
}
This post says that it not works when hardware menu button is present. But other apps are able to show items on the same device. So, that answer seems to be incorrect. Can someone please help on this?

You seem to be using the wrong menu:
Your file is named "menu_activity.xml" and you inflate the menu with the Resource-Id: R.menu.reminder_menu
The Resource name of the menu should be the same as the file name, i.e.: R.menu.manu_activity
Try it with this again - I ran into this too once and it drove me nuts...
Update
After clarification that the above part was for obfuscation, please make sure that:
You extend ActionBarActivity.
You use (or extend) one of the Theme.AppCompat themes for the activity (or whole app)
Because on older devices, the Actionbar related attributes are not present, make sure that all these attributes in the XML are used with a custom namespace. Here that would be the showAsAction attribute, so that the compatibility library can pick them up.
You already had the custom namespace defined ("app", in the menu tag). You need to change the android:showAsAction tag to app:showAsAction according to the Android guide.
Your corrected menu_activity.xml would then look like this:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" >
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_lang"
app:showAsAction="always"
android:title="#string/menu_lang"
android:icon="#android:drawable/ic_input_lang"/>
</menu>
The extended Android guide for actionbar covers these new and nasty traps...

Okay I think I found a solution for you. It is called Overflow Menu and you need to call the below method in your onCreate method.
private void getOverflowMenu() {
try {
ViewConfiguration config = ViewConfiguration.get(this);
Field menuKeyField = ViewConfiguration.class.getDeclaredField("sHasPermanentMenuKey");
if(menuKeyField != null) {
menuKeyField.setAccessible(true);
menuKeyField.setBoolean(config, false);
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Try this and let me know if it works for you.
EDIT:
I think I understood your problem finally. I can give you one idea. If you do not want to use overflow menu and just display menu items as displayed in the screen-shot you have posted, you can create a layout on top of your activity.
You can take a linear layout, give a background that looks the same as action bar and place whatever icons you want to put there, and give functionality to them with onClickListener. Hope this will give you some idea. This way you can create your own custom menu. Try the layout below and replace ic_launcher drawable with menu icons. Then just set onClickListeners to them and perform whatever functions you want to perform inside onClick method.
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:background="#66000000" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/xMenuBtn1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:background="#drawable/ic_launcher" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/xMenuTxt"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Chats"
android:textSize="18sp"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/xMenuBtn1"
android:layout_centerVertical="true" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/xMenuBtn2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#+id/xMenuBtn3"
android:background="#drawable/ic_launcher" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/xMenuBtn3"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:background="#drawable/ic_launcher" />
</RelativeLayout>

Try in your activity onCreate() :
ActionBar bar = getSupportActionBar();
bar.setTitle(R.string.app_name);
and then :
#Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
menu.clear();
getSupportMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_activity, menu);
return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
}

Multiple spinners in ActionBar

I use ActionBarSherlock, in which I set the navigation mode to 'list'
getSupportActionBar().setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_LIST);
getSupportActionBar().setListNavigationCallbacks(adapter, this);
Is it possible to dynamically show a second spinner, depending on which item is selected?

Use a custom action bar layout.
actionBar.setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true);
actionBar.setCustomView(R.layout.action_bar_custom);
action_bar_custom.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<Spinner
android:id="#+id/action_bar_spinner_collection"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
</Spinner>
<Spinner
android:id="#+id/action_bar_spinner_collection_detail"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
</Spinner>
</LinearLayout>

Use this one..This may works...
Code:
getMenuInflater().inflate( R.menu.main, menu );
mSpinnerItem = menu.findItem( R.id.menu_spinner );
setupSpinner( mSpinnerItem );
Menu XML:
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_spinner"
android:actionViewClass="android.widget.Spinner"
android:visible="false"
android:showAsAction="always"/>

NEVER use NAVIGATION_MODE_LIST and onNavigationItemSelected it is not worth it !
#Override
public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(int position, long itemId)
You also cannot use menu's to do this:
#Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_main, menu);
due to inflation ordering.
Reasons:
(1) it generates a "hidden" spinner, for which you can not get the id.
(2) you cannot customize this spinner
(3) you save 30 lines of code, but are permanently limited if you want to add a second bi-directional spinner
(4) not even in the special case of "simple code" (one spinner), you lose to much.
(5) you cannot use tabs.
the key is actionBar.setCustomView(R.layout.action_bar_custom);
and spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener()...
for each spinner.
Trust me I lost hours trying each solution.