I have a basic question and I'm surprised I didn't find a topic that already treats that matter: I have trouble adding elements to my navigation drawer menu.
I kept a reference of the menu :
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main_pager, menu);
mMenu = menu;
return true;
}
And in the callback of an AsyncTask, I try to add items to my menu this way :
mMenu.add("title").setIcon(R.drawable.ic_group);
Idealy I'd like to add it in the "menu_group" group, but for now I try it that way.
layout/activity_main_pager
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="#+id/drawer_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
tools:openDrawer="start">
<include
layout="#layout/app_bar_main_pager"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
android:id="#+id/nav_view"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="start"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
app:headerLayout="#layout/nav_header_main_pager"
app:menu="#menu/activity_main_pager_drawer" />
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>
menu/activity_main_pager_drawer
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:title="#string/menu_title_groups">
<menu>
<group android:id="#+id/menu_groups">
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_add_group"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_group_add"
android:title="#string/menu_add_group" />
</group>
</menu>
</item>
</menu>
Bonus question : The icon of "menu_add_group" item of my menu doesn't display correctly, I have a gray square instead of it.
Thanks, don't hesitate to link me an other topic if I didn't search correclty.
Ok one of the problems was the way I got my mMenu. I added all the corrections listed by my savior plus this one :
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main_pager, menu);
return true;
}
and on my activity init :
NavigationView nav = (NavigationView) mDrawer.findViewById(R.id.nav_view);
mMenu = nav.getMenu();
when I add a menu item :
menu.add("title").setIcon(R.drawable.ic_group);
supportInvalidateOptionsMenu();
After changing the menu items you need to call invalidateOptionsMenu() (or supportInvalidateOptionsMenu if you're using the support library). Android will then know that it needs to recreate it and will call onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu) again. You'll need to inflate the new menu there.
The grey icon is due to the item tint. You can remove it by simply calling mNavigationView.setItemIconTintList(null).
Related
I have the menu icon (3 dots) duplicated I used the following code:
#Override public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(final Menu menu) {
menu.clear();
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.home, menu);
return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}
but it didn't solve my problem is it because I'm using androidx libraries?
My XML code for the menu:
<?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:title="more"
android:id="#+id/moreVertical"
android:icon="#drawable/baseline_more_vert_black_18dp"
app:showAsAction="always" />
<item android:title="#string/titlecontactus" android:id="#+id/mnuContactUs"/>
<item android:title="#string/titlepolicy" android:id="#+id/mnuPolicy"/>
my toolbar XML code in the activity:
<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/my_toolbar" app:title="#string/title"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimaryDark"
android:elevation="4dp"
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light">
</androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar>
I just removed the item I made for 3 dots which has the title more and everything worked fine it seems the 3 dots appear by default and no need to add an item for it or download its 3 dots image.It seems the article I followed was wrong or may be out of date.Hope someone could help on my second question:
Copy sqlite in android studio assets not working
I want to add an element to the label bar in the top right corner.element like the green square in the top right corner
Purpose of this element would be to indicate some app status by changing color (green, yellow or red). It should persist through all the app activities. If anyone has other suggestion on how I should go on about it, I would gladly accept it. Only condition is that it is in the position marked in the picture. the element can be an image (where i would load one of the 3 images) or a textview where I would just change background color, or some other solution.
this is the code where label is defined in AndroidManifest.xml:
<activity android:name=".activities.application.Limiter" android:label="#string/LIMITER_ACTION_BAR_TITLE" />
You can add the android toolbar widget in your main activity layout, below code will give your desired result
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/home_toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary" >
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/logoXmarks"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:src="#drawable/common_full_open_on_phone" />
</RelativeLayout>
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
I created a menu item in a new .xml file:
<?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"
android:layout_width="40dp"
android:layout_height="40dp">
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_item"
android:icon="#drawable/circle_ok"
app:showAsAction="always"
android:title=""/>
</menu>
and then added this code to activity:
private MenuItem menuItem;
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_item, menu);
menuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.menu_item);
return true;
}
to change the icon I used:
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
switch(status) {
case 0:
menu.findItem(R.id.menu_item).setIcon(R.drawable.circle_ok);
break;
case 1:
menu.findItem(R.id.menu_item).setIcon(R.drawable.circle_warning);
break;
case 2:
menu.findItem(R.id.menu_item).setIcon(R.drawable.circle_alarm);
break;
}
return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
}
after changing status value invalidateOptionsMenu(); should be called.
This is the result:
color changes every second
thx everyone for help, I hope someone can find this useful!
Hello
I'm trying to add 2 menu items in the action bar. On the designer they look ok, but when I run the application, both menu items goes in the dropdown list hamburger menu (there's enough "room" to display on the action bar).
I tried to replace app:showAsAction to android:showAsAction, doesn't work this replacement.
this is my menu_main.xml
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
tools:context="com.tabdemo.MainActivity">
<item
android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:title=""
app:showAsAction="never"
/>
<item
android:id="#+id/userMenu"
android:title="User"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
<item
android:id="#+id/logoutMenu"
android:icon="#drawable/opendoorlogo2"
android:title="Logout"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
And this is the java code:
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
MenuItem userMenuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.userMenu);
userMenuItem.setTitle(username);// global string
MenuItem logoutMenuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.logoutMenu);
logoutMenuItem.setIcon(R.drawable.opendoorlogo2);
return true;
}
Thanks in advance (P.S. Logo doesn't load on Logout menu Item)
First of all make sure your drawable file is not too big for the actionbar, if so you can convert it to actionbar icon size.
https://romannurik.github.io/AndroidAssetStudio/icons-actionbar.html#source.space.trim=1&source.space.pad=0&name=ic_action_example&theme=light&color=33b5e5%2C60
android:showAsAction="always"
if this doesn't help you.
Best way is to create a custom actionbar layout and place your icon over there instead of adding it as Menus.
about android Toolbar, how to hide default setting menu in toolbar
in the this activity i hava set a single icon menu,like this –
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:title=""
android:id="#+id/menu_add"
android:icon="#drawable/actionbar_add_icon"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom">
</item>
</menu>
it is menu/main_home.xml
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_home, menu);
return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}
but it show a three dots menu. i want know why
and how to show sub menu icon image ，it is normal in the Actionbar, but hide in the Toolbar
If you want to empty the contents of the menu, go to the res/menu folder and delete the item tags from the menu_main.xml file. You will also need to delete references to the items in onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item). The menu dots will disappear if there are no items.
If you want to completely remove the three dots menu, then go to the onCreateOptions(...) method in your code and delete it, or simply remove the getMenuInflater().inflate(...); portion of it. You can safely remove the onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) method as well because it will have no purpose.
The simplest way to make the menu disappear is to have the onCreateOptions(...) method return false.
this question is solved use app:showAsAction ="ifRoom" not android:showAsAction ="ifRoom"
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools">
<item
android:title=""
android:id="#+id/menu_button"
app:actionLayout="#layout/menu_single_button"
app:showAsAction = "always"
/></menu>
I have a working SearchView which expands in my OptionsMenu when the user taps on the search icon. However it only expands within the available space among the other OptionsMenu icons. On a wide screen this is fine, but with a narrow space there is only room to show 5-10 charaters in the search box. I want it to overlay the other icons such as it does for the Android Contacts app. Currently, I'm building with targetSdkVersion = 17. Hopefully I'm missing something simple :)
(Note added later: the only solution I've found workable so far is to hide all the menu icons when I want to expand the search icon. This is conceptually simple. But it is messy because when restoring hidden icons, one has to go through a bunch of logic to figure out which ones to restore, or keep state variables around, etc.)
Here's my item xml in for the OptionsMenu:
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_search_shallow"
android:title="Search Current Folder"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_btn_search"
android:showAsAction="always|collapseActionView"
android:actionViewClass="android.widget.SearchView" />
I also have in my main activity code:
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu (Menu menu)
{
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.nav_menu, menu);
this.optionsMenu = menu;
MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem (R.id.menu_search_shallow);
searchItem.setOnActionExpandListener (this);
SearchView searchView = (SearchView) searchItem.getActionView();
searchView.setQueryHint (getString (R.string.search_shallow_hint));
searchItem = menu.findItem (R.id.menu_search_deep);
searchItem.setOnActionExpandListener (this);
searchView = (SearchView) searchItem.getActionView();
searchView.setQueryHint (getString (R.string.search_deep_hint));
}
and
#Override
public boolean onMenuItemActionExpand(MenuItem item)
{
SearchView searchView = (SearchView) item.getActionView();
searchView.setOnQueryTextListener (this);
return true;
}
#Override
public boolean onMenuItemActionCollapse(MenuItem item)
{
SearchView searchView = (SearchView) item.getActionView();
searchView.setQuery ("", false);
return true;
}
Instead of creating a new layout I set the MaxWidth programmatically in onCreateOptionsMenu():
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_search, menu);
SearchView searchView = (SearchView)menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search).getActionView();
searchView.setMaxWidth(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
....
For some reason jjung's solution didn't work for me. I had to add android:maxWidth="10000dp", just a really high maxWidth, to get it to expand to the full available width.
Also, just to add, I'm using the support library (v7), and so my layout file looks like this:
<android.support.v7.widget.SearchView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:maxWidth="10000dp" />
And in my item, I have:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:myapp="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item
...
myapp:actionLayout="#layout/searchview" />
...
Where myapp is just some arbitrary namespace for the attributes added by the support library (see Adding Action Items for more details).
Maybe I am late but thought it might be helpful for someone who faced the same issue as me.
final SearchView searchView = (SearchView) myActionMenuItem.getActionView();
searchView.setMaxWidth(Integer.MAX_VALUE);//set search menu as full width
in onCreateOptionsMenu
of your class may solve this problem but one thing we need to understand.
If you just want to show search menu (on clicking of search button) and not any other menu items in actionbar then you need to keep the search item as a first item in menu file. Here is an example
<?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">
<!--keeping searach as first item-->
<item
android:id="#+id/action_search"
android:icon="#drawable/search_ab"
android:title="#string/search"
app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
<item
android:id="#+id/itemFilter"
android:icon="#drawable/filter"
android:title="#string/filter"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
</menu>
And it will be displayed as
on clicking search it will be shown as full width
And if you keep search as second or last item in menu then it will be show like this.
and on clicking search
As crazy as it might seem, in my case problem was this line:
app:actionViewClass="android.widget.SearchView" in menu.xml:
<item
android:id="#+id/action_search"
app:actionViewClass="android.widget.SearchView"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_search"
android:title="#string/title"
app:actionLayout="#layout/layout_search"
app:showAsAction="always" />
When I removed app:actionViewClass, it fully expanded as defined in my layout_search file.
<android.support.v7.widget.SearchView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:maxWidth="10000dp"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:background="#color/colorAccent"
android:queryHint="Search me" />
I had a similar issue, that the search bar did not fill the whole width,( but I had no other icons).
I solved it by adding in item:
android:actionLayout="#layout/my_search_view"
and in layout/my_search_view.xml :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<SearchView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
There are so many ways to solve this issue - I'll just add the one I've used in several apps.
I have my custom SearchView (with some other customization) which extends android.support.v7.widget.SearchView and in order to stretch to full width:
#Override
public void setLayoutParams(final ViewGroup.LayoutParams params) {
params.width = ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT;
super.setLayoutParams(params);
}