I want to have a PopupMenu with items that have a header. It seemed like the way to achieve this was using a submenu. But the problem is the top level menu shows up collapsed by default. Only after clicking the top item, the sub menu shows. I want to show New Menu expanded and showing all three options instead of requiring me to click on New menu first to reveal the 3 options.
<item android:title="New menu">
<menu>
<item
android:id="#+id/group_item_one"
android:title="Item one"
/>
<item
android:id="#+id/group_item_two"
android:title="Item two" />
<item
android:id="#+id/group_item_three"
android:title="Item three" />
</menu>
</item>
try to add the attribute showAsAction="always"to the items.
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I have a class that extends FragmentActivity. No I want to show my menu items at the top of the screen like in actionbar. How can I do this ?
I have created the menu items and they are visible hen the hardware button for menu is pressesd but I want to sho them at the top of the screen.
Basically, this happens in devices with physical menu button. In devices without that button, all options are displayed in the action bar.
You can force a menu item to be displayed in the action bar by addind "showAlways" to the item that you want.
showAsAction=“always”
An small example
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item android:id="#+id/action_search"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_search"
android:title="#string/action_search"
android:showAsAction="always" />
<item android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:title="#string/action_settings"
android:showAsAction="always" />
</menu>
You must need to ensure that you have enough space for the menu items.
To ensure that I'll have enough space, I use to create a menu with only one item. Then, inside this item, I create another menu. This way, only one button is displayed and all items appear in a floating pop up menu. The main idea is below:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item android:id="#+id/overflow_item"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_overflow_icon"
android:title="#string/options"
android:showAsAction="always" />
<menu>
<item android:id="#+id/action_clear"
android:title="#string/clear"
android:showAsAction="always" />
</menu>
</menu>
I have a problem, in my app I need to add 2 buttons to the ActionBar, i change the menù file in this way
<menu
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:id="#+id/navigation_drawer"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_drawer"
android:title="Drawer"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
<item android:id="#+id/info"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_info_outline_white_24dp"
android:title="info"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
</menu>
but my items are in the overflow button without the image , only the text , how can I do to take off from there and make images appear on ActionBar ? it would be possible to put one on the left and one to the right of the name of the app ?
You can use android:showAsAction="always" to make them always show on the ActionBar.
Im working on action menu item and its over flow item this is my main_menu.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_search"
android:icon="#drawable/search"
android:title="#string/start_new_project"
app:showAsAction="always" />
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_dts_overflow"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_overflow_round"
android:orderInCategory="11111"
android:title="Service"
app:showAsAction="always">
<menu>
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_newProject"
android:icon="#drawable/newproject"
android:title="#string/start_new_project"
app:showAsAction="never" />
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_help"
android:icon="#drawable/help"
android:title="Service Tasks"
app:showAsAction="never" />
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_signOut"
android:icon="#drawable/signout"
android:title="#string/menusignout"
app:showAsAction="never" />
</menu>
</item>
I tried to construct a search item and a overflow item which you can see in the above code. I'm new to Action bar menu items so i tried to Google it and was able to make it work as I need.
In this I have to know one more thing.
1. What is orderInCategory with some numbers and what for it is used..?
android:orderInCategory is an integer attribute that dictates the order in which the menu items will appear within the menu when it is displayed.
<menu
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_item_first"
android:orderInCategory="1"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/string_one"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_item_second"
android:orderInCategory="2"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/string_two"/>
</menu>
Menu items in ToolBar are arranged from left to right (or
start to end in RTL mode) in the ascending order (i.e. 1,2,3 ->
left to right).
Menu Items in Overflow menu are arranged from top to bottom in
the ascending order (i.e. 1,2,3 -> top to bottom).
android:orderInCategory is actually useful in two ways.
1. For menu items in ActionBar.
Items will appear from left to right in ActionBar depending on the ascending order.
2. For menu items in overflow menu.
Overflow menu items will be displayed from top to bottom depending upon the ascending order you have specified.
android:orderInCategory Higher value, lower priority.
I have a Activity and a Fragment in it, both of them have option menu, and the item numbers are 1 and 3.
If I set android:orderInCategory=0, the activity menu are above the fragment menu, same effect before I set the value.
But if I set android:orderInCategory=1,the activity menu are below the fragment menu, and that is what I want.(I also test android:orderInCategory=5 tested too, still the same effect.)
I have this menu layout
<item
android:id="#+id/refresh"
android:icon="#drawable/refresh"
android:title="#string/refresh"/>
<item
android:icon="#drawable/sort_neutral"
android:title="Sort By Date">
<menu>
<item
android:id="#+id/sortNewToOld"
android:icon="#drawable/sort_up"
android:title="Newest To Oldest"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/sortOldToNew"
android:icon="#drawable/sort_down"
android:title="Oldest To Newest"/>
</menu>
</item>
the items "#+id/refresh" and "#drawable/sort_neutral" are shown correctly, but the two icons inside the "android:title="Sort By Date" are not shown, I just can see the title of them. any help would be appreciated.
note
I am using real mobile song ericsson 2.3.1
Your icon are probably too large for the menu. Make sure you are using a correct icon size.
I am trying to use option menus for my application . When I add 2 MenuItem it shown in a single row, but i need only one item in a row and other in next row. Please help me.
Thanks..
You cannot. The Android system handles how the options menu is laid out and there are no options to achieve what you want. You would have to make your own View, and then slide this up/down when the menu button is pressed.
tr this code
<item android:id="#+id/last_most_item"
android:orderInCategory="10"
android:title="#string/last_most_often" />
<item android:id="#+id/middle_most_item"
android:orderInCategory="7"
android:title="#string/middle_most_often" />
<item android:id="#+id/first_most_item"
android:orderInCategory="4"
android:title="#string/first_most_often" />
</group>
I'm not sure it's possible but try with the MenuInflater and a menu resource file.
In your menu resource file, try to embed each item in a separated <menu> element, something like this :
<menu>
<item>
<menu>
<item android:id="#+id/item1"
android:title="#string/item1" />
</menu>
</item>
<item>
<menu>
<item android:id="#+id/item2"
android:title="#string/item2" />
</menu>
</item>
</menu>
Maybe it will force the inflater to show the items in 2 separated lines, sorry I don't have the time to test it. If it's not working, replace the submenus with <group> elements and retest.