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ImageButton does not display menu items when pressing it

I have a custom ListView. Inside the layout of the custom ListView, I have an ImageButton which acts as an overflow menu (similar to how the Menu on the ActionBar works):
layout/item_list.xml
<ImageButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/ic_more_vert_black_24dp"
android:contentDescription="#string/descr_overflow_button"
android:id="#+id/overflowMenu"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"/>
In the Activity, I configure this ImageButton as a Popup in the onCreate method:
overflowMenu = (ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.overflowMenu);
popupMenu = new PopupMenu(this, overflowMenu);
popupMenu.setOnMenuItemClickListener(this);
I also inflated it in onCreateOptionsMenu:
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
MenuInflater inflater = popupMenu.getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.popup_menu, popupMenu.getMenu());
return true;
}
I have the following in menu/popup_menu.xml folder:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:app="schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" tools:context=".MainActivity">
<item android:id="#+id/report" android:title="Report"
app:showAsAction="always"/>
<item android:id="#+id/share" android:title="Share"
app:showAsAction="always"/>
</menu>
And I added this:
#Override
public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) {
return true;
}
However, when I try to click on the ImageButton on the phone, nothing happens. It does not display the menu items as it should. What am I missing?

Firstly PopupMenu is exactly what you need . From the docs
A popup menu displays a list of items in a vertical list that's
anchored to the view that invoked the menu. It's good for providing an
overflow of actions that relate to specific content or to provide
options for a second part of a command.
Now the reason why your implementation doesn't work is because onCreateOptionsMenu and onMenuItemClick are for managing the menu for the activity so inflating the overflow menu there is pointless.
What you need to do is attach an onClickListener to your ImageButton and initialize the PopupMenu and call show() inside your ListView/RecyclerView adapter
imageButton = findViewById(R.id.overflow_menu);
PopupMenu popup = new PopupMenu(this, imageButton);
MenuInflater inflater = popup.getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.popup_menu, popup.getMenu());
imageButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener(){
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
popup.show();
}
});
You can have a look at the docs linked above for examples as well.

This Questions is duplication.
For custom layouts you can't use a menu, you have to use to a PopupWindow
Android MenuItem Custom Layout
PopupWindow popupwindow_obj = popupDisplay();
popupwindow_obj.showAsDropDown(clickbtn, -40, 18); // where u want show on view click event popupwindow.showAsDropDown(view, x, y);
public PopupWindow popupDisplay()
{
final PopupWindow popupWindow = new PopupWindow(this);
// inflate your layout or dynamically add view
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) getContext().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.mylayout, null);
Button item = (Button) view.findViewById(R.id.button1);
popupWindow.setFocusable(true);
popupWindow.setWidth(WindowManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
popupWindow.setHeight(WindowManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
popupWindow.setContentView(view);
return popupWindow;
}
// Create this XML file in the res/layout folder named my layout.xml
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Window test" />
</LinearLayout>

Show copy/paste context menu on text using code android

I have an EditText and its text gets selected from through code. But I want to allow users to cut/copy the selected text. However, the cut/copy context menu doesn't appear until user long presses on text. But then it loses the actual selection. So, I'm thinking to show the context menu as the text get selected by the code.
I tried this inside onFocusChanged, but nothing appeared.
openContextMenu(EditText);

IF I follow you usecase correctly, you can open context menu from the onFocusChangeListener registered on the testedEditText.
I prepared some small test for that which seems to be correctly supporting your usecase.
You need to openMenu on the hooks which are selecting the content in the EditText.
public class Main extends Activity {
private EditText testedEditText;
private Button selectingButton;
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
selectingButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button);
testedEditText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.textView);
registerForContextMenu(testedEditText);
selectingButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
testedEditText.setSelection(6, 11);
openContextMenu(testedEditText);
}
});
}
#Override
public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v, ContextMenu.ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {
super.onCreateContextMenu(menu, v, menuInfo);
MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.cmenu, menu);
}
#Override
public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
switch (item.getItemId()) {
case R.id.select_all:
return true;
case R.id.copy:
//do something
return true;
case R.id.cut:
//do something
return true;
case R.id.paste:
//do something
return true;
default:
return super.onContextItemSelected(item);
}
}
}
Weirdly enough registering testedEditText.requestFocus(), and setting onFocusChangedListener for EditText was not enough.
Additional xml files for reference:
cmenu.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="#+id/select_all"
android:title="select all"
/>
<item android:id="#+id/copy"
android:title="copy"
/>
<item android:id="#+id/cut"
android:title="cut"
/>
<item android:id="#+id/paste"
android:title="paste"
/>
</menu>
main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
<EditText android:id="#+id/textView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Hello World, Initial Text..."
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
/>
<Button android:id="#+id/button"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:text="button"
/>
</RelativeLayout>

Android custom dropdown/popup menu

How do I do a custom dropdown/popup menu anchored to a button?
I need it to work like the popup menu (anchored to a view), and do something when I click an item from the menu.
How do I add items to the menu by code, keeping menu's height and make it scrollable if there are more than 5 items. I don't need to add any images, just text.

Update: To create a popup menu in android with Kotlin refer my answer here.
To create a popup menu in android with Java:
Create a layout file activity_main.xml under res/layout directory which contains only one button.
Filename: activity_main.xml
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingBottom="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
tools:context=".MainActivity" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="62dp"
android:layout_marginTop="50dp"
android:text="Show Popup" />
</RelativeLayout>
Create a file popup_menu.xml under res/menu directory
It contains three items as shown below.
Filename: poupup_menu.xml
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#+id/one"
android:title="One"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/two"
android:title="Two"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/three"
android:title="Three"/>
</menu>
MainActivity class which displays the popup menu on button click.
Filename: MainActivity.java
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
private Button button1;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
button1 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
button1.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
//Creating the instance of PopupMenu
PopupMenu popup = new PopupMenu(MainActivity.this, button1);
//Inflating the Popup using xml file
popup.getMenuInflater()
.inflate(R.menu.popup_menu, popup.getMenu());
//registering popup with OnMenuItemClickListener
popup.setOnMenuItemClickListener(new PopupMenu.OnMenuItemClickListener() {
public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) {
Toast.makeText(
MainActivity.this,
"You Clicked : " + item.getTitle(),
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT
).show();
return true;
}
});
popup.show(); //showing popup menu
}
}); //closing the setOnClickListener method
}
}
To add programmatically:
PopupMenu menu = new PopupMenu(this, view);
menu.getMenu().add("One");
menu.getMenu().add("Two");
menu.getMenu().add("Three");
menu.show();
Follow this link for creating menu programmatically.

I know this is an old question, but I've found another answer that worked better for me and it doesn't seem to appear in any of the answers.
Create a layout xml:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingTop="5dip"
android:paddingBottom="5dip"
android:paddingStart="10dip"
android:paddingEnd="10dip">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/shoe_select_icon"
android:layout_width="30dp"
android:layout_height="30dp"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:scaleType="fitXY" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/shoe_select_text"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:paddingStart="10dp"
android:paddingEnd="10dp"/>
</LinearLayout>
Create a ListPopupWindow and a map with the content:
ListPopupWindow popupWindow;
List<HashMap<String, Object>> data = new ArrayList<>();
HashMap<String, Object> map = new HashMap<>();
map.put(TITLE, getString(R.string.left));
map.put(ICON, R.drawable.left);
data.add(map);
map = new HashMap<>();
map.put(TITLE, getString(R.string.right));
map.put(ICON, R.drawable.right);
data.add(map);
Then on click, display the menu using this function:
private void showListMenu(final View anchor) {
popupWindow = new ListPopupWindow(this);
ListAdapter adapter = new SimpleAdapter(
this,
data,
R.layout.shoe_select,
new String[] {TITLE, ICON}, // These are just the keys that the data uses (constant strings)
new int[] {R.id.shoe_select_text, R.id.shoe_select_icon}); // The view ids to map the data to
popupWindow.setAnchorView(anchor);
popupWindow.setAdapter(adapter);
popupWindow.setWidth(400);
popupWindow.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
#Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
switch (position){
case 0:
devicesAdapter.setSelectedLeftPosition(devicesList.getChildAdapterPosition(anchor));
break;
case 1:
devicesAdapter.setSelectedRightPosition(devicesList.getChildAdapterPosition(anchor));
break;
default:
break;
}
runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
devicesAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}
});
popupWindow.dismiss();
}
});
popupWindow.show();
}

The Kotlin Way
fun showPopupMenu(view: View) {
PopupMenu(view.context, view).apply {
menuInflater.inflate(R.menu.popup_men, menu)
setOnMenuItemClickListener { item ->
Toast.makeText(view.context, "You Clicked : " + item.title, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
true
}
}.show()
}
UPDATE: In the above code, the apply function returns this which is not required, so we can use run which don't return anything and to make it even simpler we can also remove the curly braces of showPopupMenu method.
Even Simpler:
fun showPopupMenu(view: View) = PopupMenu(view.context, view).run {
menuInflater.inflate(R.menu.popup_men, menu)
setOnMenuItemClickListener { item ->
Toast.makeText(view.context, "You Clicked : ${item.title}", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
true
}
show()
}

First, create a folder named “menu” in the “res” folder.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#+id/search"
android:icon="#android:drawable/ic_menu_search"
android:title="Search"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/add"
android:icon="#android:drawable/ic_menu_add"
android:title="Add"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/edit"
android:icon="#android:drawable/ic_menu_edit"
android:title="Edit">
<menu>
<item
android:id="#+id/share"
android:icon="#android:drawable/ic_menu_share"
android:title="Share"/>
</menu>
</item>
</menu>
Then, create your Activity Class:
public class PopupMenu1 extends Activity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.popup_menu_1);
}
public void onPopupButtonClick(View button) {
PopupMenu popup = new PopupMenu(this, button);
popup.getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.popup, popup.getMenu());
popup.setOnMenuItemClickListener(new PopupMenu.OnMenuItemClickListener() {
public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) {
Toast.makeText(PopupMenu1.this,
"Clicked popup menu item " + item.getTitle(),
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
return true;
}
});
popup.show();
}
}

Android - Popup menu when list item view pressed?

i would like to implement a popup menu similar to google's play store as shown below.
so basically from what i understand, i'll need an activity and a layout for this activity with a listview defined in it. i need to create my custom adapter. also, i need to create a list layout would contain the information and a view (with the 3 dots) that will serve as the button to launch the popup menu? the issue that i'm seeing here is that how do i create a listener for this view only and how do i reference the value for that specific list item in the list view.
i don't have any code available yet as i haven't started anything related to this. i'm currently getting info in theory for now but if required i will create a sample code.
thanks.

Using popup menu it's quite simple to create a menu with these three steps:
1 - Add a click listener to the menu button using OnClickListener or as i prefer from the layout xml:
<ImageButton android:id="#+id/menu_button" android:onClick="showMenu" ... />
2 - Create the menu layout menu_layout.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:id="#+id/item_settings"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
android:title="Settings"
android:visible="true"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/item_about"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
android:title="About"
android:visible="true"/>
</menu>
3 - Create a popup menu, inflate the xml layout and show it:
public void showMenu (View view)
{
PopupMenu menu = new PopupMenu (this, view);
menu.setOnMenuItemClickListener (new PopupMenu.OnMenuItemClickListener ()
{
#Override
public boolean onMenuItemClick (MenuItem item)
{
int id = item.getItemId();
switch (id)
{
case R.id.item_settings: Log.i (Tag, "settings"); break;
case R.id.item_about: Log.i (Tag, "about"); break;
}
return true;
}
});
menu.inflate (R.menu.menu_layout);
menu.show();
}

ActionBarCompat List PopupMenu implementation is here (with back port available because it uses ABC)!
You can also get this sample from Github or from SDK (Mr.Morgan commented below)
/sdk/samples/android-19/ui/ActionBarCompat-ListPopupMenu. Make sure to
install Samples for SDK under Android 4.4.2 (API 19)

You can use like this:
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
ListView listView_Actions;
ArrayList<String> actionsArrayList;
Button btn_ViewPopUp;
ArrayAdapter<String> actionsAdapter;
static final int CUSTOM_DIALOG_ID1 = 1;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
btn_ViewPopUp=(Button) findViewById(R.id.btn_ViewPopUp);
actionsArrayList=new ArrayList<String>();
actionsArrayList.add("Action 1");
actionsArrayList.add("Action 2");
}
#Override
protected void onStart() {
super.onStart();
btn_ViewPopUp.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
showDialog(CUSTOM_DIALOG_ID1);
actionsAdapter = new MyCustomBaseAdapter(getApplicationContext(), R.layout.list_actions, actionsArrayList);
listView_Actions.setAdapter(actionsAdapter);
}
});
}
#Override
protected Dialog onCreateDialog(int id) {
Dialog dialog = null;
switch (id) {
case CUSTOM_DIALOG_ID1:
dialog = new Dialog(MainActivity.this);
dialog.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
dialog.getWindow().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.TRANSPARENT));
dialog.setContentView(R.layout.list_actions);
listView_Actions = (ListView) dialog.findViewById(R.id.listView_Actions);
break;
}
return dialog;
}
class MyCustomBaseAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<String>
{
public MyCustomBaseAdapter(Context context, int textViewResourceId, ArrayList<String> actionsArrayList) {
super(context, textViewResourceId,actionsArrayList);
}
#Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.action_list_cell, null);
final TextView lblContactAction;
lblContactAction = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.txtContactAction);
lblContactAction.append(actionsArrayList.get(position));
return v;
}
}
}
Now XML files:
action_list_cell.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:background="#android:color/background_light" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txtContactAction"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text=""
android:textSize="18dp"
android:textColor="#android:color/black" />
</LinearLayout>
list_actions.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:background="#drawable/rounded_corner_top">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="10dp"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#DB6A16"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:paddingBottom="2dp"
android:paddingLeft="2dp"
android:paddingRight="2dp" >
<ListView
android:id="#+id/listView_Actions"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#ffffff" >
</ListView>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

first of all you need to make your custom adapter with a view that has the 3 dots.
then in the getView() or newView() method you set the listener to the 3 dots image.
i think that PopupMenu is what you are looking for, it's is supported since API 11.
if you want to support also earlier version of the API you can use PopupMenu class provided by the support library v7.
the usage is pretty straight forward.
you define it with the id of the view you want the menu to show next to, and then you can directly inflate a menu resource there as if it was a common menu.

Now showDialog is deprecated, use PopupMenu instead
And AppCompat PopupMenu f you want to support version before V11
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
Button button1;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
button1 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
button1.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
//Creating the instance of PopupMenu
PopupMenu popup = new PopupMenu(MainActivity.this, button1);
//Inflating the Popup using xml file
popup.getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.popup_menu, popup.getMenu());
//registering popup with OnMenuItemClickListener
popup.setOnMenuItemClickListener(new PopupMenu.OnMenuItemClickListener() {
public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) {
Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this,"You Clicked : " + item.getTitle(),Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
return true;
}
});
popup.show();//showing popup menu
}
});//closing the setOnClickListener method
}
}

You have to set the Listener of the Button in the getView()-Method of your List-Adapter.
In this getView()-Method you assign a Layout to one List-Item. if you have done this, you just have to set the Listener on this View (Button), and handle the onClick() Event.

Not sure if i understand you correctly but you can trigger this method to open a pop up dialog with a listview.
#Override
public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(getActivity());
builder.setTitle("Title if Any");
builder.setItems(R.array.listoptions, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int itemClicked) {
String[] option_array = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.listoptions);
String optionSelected = option_array[itemClicked];
}
});
return builder.create();
}
See Adding a List
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<string-array name="listoption">
<item>Install</item>
<item>Add to listview</item>
</string-array>
</resources>
Hope this helps.

Click on EditText doesn't show softkeyboard

I am using ActionBarSherlock, in the ActionBar i have this custom layout to appear when i click on the searchIcon.
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(final Menu menu) {
LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
final View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.on_search_icon_clicked,null, false);
view.findViewById(R.id.search_image).setOnClickListener(
new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View arg0) {
EditText searchET = (EditText) view.findViewById(R.id.search_editText);
String s = searchET.getText().toString();
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Searching for: " + s,1000).show();
}
});
menu.add("Search")
.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_search)
.setActionView(view)
.setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS | MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_COLLAPSE_ACTION_VIEW);
return true;
}
on_search_icon_clicked.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/search_image"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:src="#drawable/ic_search"
android:clickable="true"
android:contentDescription="#string/seach_icon" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/search_editText"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/search_image"
android:hint="#string/search"
android:singleLine="true" />
</RelativeLayout>
So, i click on the SearchIcon ---> i get the custom layout with editText and ImageView ---> click on editText, opens softkeyboard ---> enters string and clicks the imageView ---> shows me the toast.
Its fine till here.
The problem is:
i close the softkeyboard using device back button ---> then close the custom layout using ActionBar Home icon click ---> now click the searchIcon again, which reopens the custom layout, with editText filled with previously searched string ---> click on the editText, the softkeyboard doesn't open up (here is the problem).
Please help, i have no idea why its not working as expected.
Thank You

I have faced this problem before and here is my solution
//your_menu
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_search"
android:orderInCategory="0"
android:icon="#drawable/btn_search"
android:title="Search"
android:actionLayout="#layout/on_search_icon_clicked"
android:showAsAction="always|collapseActionView"
/>
</menu>
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
getSupportMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.your_menu, menu);
mSearchbar = (MenuItem) menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search);
View actionview = mSearchbar.getActionView();
mEtSearchbar = ((EditText) actionview.findViewById(R.id.search_editText));
mEtSearchbar.setOnEditorActionListener(this);
mEtSearchbar.addTextChangedListener(this);
super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
return true;
}
#Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item)
{
Intent intent;
switch (item.getItemId())
{
case R.id.menu_search:
mEtSearchbar.clearFocus();
(new Handler()).postDelayed(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
mEtSearchbar.dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent.obtain(SystemClock.uptimeMillis(), SystemClock.uptimeMillis(), MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN, 0, 0, 0));
mEtSearchbar.dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent.obtain(SystemClock.uptimeMillis(), SystemClock.uptimeMillis(), MotionEvent.ACTION_UP , 0, 0, 0));
}
}, 100);
break;
default:
break;
}
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
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