I'm trying to replace the overflow menu with a normal Imagebutton, i do not want drop down menu. the same as DisplayHome button is working
Add the attribute: android:showAsAction="always" to your menu item to keep it out of the overflow menu.
Something like this probably:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#+id/myMenuItem"
android:orderInCategory="1"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:title="#string/myTitle"/>
</menu>
Additionally, if you want to only show the menu button if there is room and otherwise store it in the overflow menu, use: android:showAsAction="ifRoom".
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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 an app with a NoActionBar theme. In my main activity I have an options menu that I created manually on the top of the screen (or by utilizing the built in device's options button).
In this main activity, I have a fragment with a listView where I apply the action mode long click functionality, to show the contextual action bar (CAB) for further user options.
Now, I try adding an options item to my CAB so it will contain some options like selecting all items in the listView, but since it's an item of the CAB, I can't really show the popup menu like in a regular activity. Further more, I want all the options menu callbacks (such as onOptionsItemSelected) to stay in the context of the CAB, in order to be able to continue to perform actions on the CAB.
Here's the code of my CAB:
<?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/action_delete"
android:orderInCategory="100"
app:showAsAction="always"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_delete"
android:title="Delete"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_overflow"
app:showAsAction="always"
android:orderInCategory="200"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_overflow"
android:title="Options"
android:visible="false"/>
</menu>
Apparently I missed the built in feature of the CAB - a built in overflow menu that collapses some of the actions' items once the screen is too small to show them all.
Another manipulation that needs to be done in order to always collapse certain actions under that overflow menu is to set for each one of them:
android:showAsAction="never"
app:showAsAction="never"
So, say we have 3 actions (delete, selece_all, add) in the CAB, and we want two of them (select_all, add) to be collapsed always under the built in overflow menu, we'll set this in the CAB's xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:mm="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item
android:id="#+id/action_delete"
android:orderInCategory="100"
mm:showAsAction="always"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_delete"
android:title="Delete"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_select"
android:orderInCategory="200"
android:showAsAction="never"
mm:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/select_all"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_add"
android:orderInCategory="300"
android:showAsAction="never"
mm:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/button_add"/>
I want to display an overflow menu in the action bar , I tried to use a menu in my activity but I'm only getting a popup menu when I click on the menu button on my phone. Is there any way to force that overflow menu for phone with physical buttons ?
Here is my menu file :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#+id/phone"
android:title="phone"
android:icon="#drawable/phone"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/computer"
android:title="computer"
android:icon="#drawable/computer"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/gamepad"
android:title="gamepad"
android:icon="#drawable/gamepad"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"/>
</menu>
You need to go into the menu xml file and make sure it has
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
and for the icon you use
android:icon="#drawable/yourIcon"
Edit: To make sure you are using the right menu xml, check your activity class that is being run and look for the
onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
Once you have found that check that the line
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.{0}, menu);
matches your menu xml file, where {0} = your xml file name
I have a menu defined in an XML file such a "home_menu.xml" like this:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<!-- Should always be in the overflow -->
<item
android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/action_settings"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_user_preferences"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/action_user_preferences"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_logout"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/action_logout"/>
</menu>
In my "Home" activity, I can access this menu by pushing the menu button in a device that has a physical button, but I don't want to use action bar so I want to add a Navigation Drawer for this purpose as Google Maps does.
It would be great if I could use the same onOptionsItemSelected() method defined in my Home activity to handle menu actions.
You won't be able to do that.
You'll have to do it manually.
Or semi-manually. You could in onCreateOptionsMenu get all the menu items with title, icon and id and generate the view (listview for instance) for the drawer.
And use a shared method to handle the click that takes the id in parameter.
But if you want to hide/show some elements in the menu, you'll have to update your listview manually since onCreateOptionsMenu won't be called. And if you have multiple fragment with menus you'll also have to do something.
So I would recommend to use the drawer even when there is a hardware menu key.
I'm having a problem when I try to set one item in my actionbar as always visible and 4 more icons as dropdown items with the following layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#+id/search_movies"
android:icon="#drawable/action_search"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:title="Search"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/movies"
android:icon="#drawable/action_video"
android:showAsAction="collapseActionView"
android:title="Movies"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/theaters"
android:icon="#drawable/action_location_map"
android:showAsAction="collapseActionView"
android:title="Theaters"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/preferences"
android:icon="#drawable/action_settings"
android:showAsAction="collapseActionView"
android:title="Preferences"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/contact"
android:icon="#drawable/action_about"
android:showAsAction="collapseActionView"
android:title="Contact"/>
</menu>
The result is just the first item showing and the rest are not visible, not even as a dropdown. This is using ActionBarSherlock and a 2.3 Android device.
The question is, how can I get the icons to follow this layout:
EDIT:
The problem I had was because when you are using the actionbar with a device that has a "menu" hardware button the 3-dot dropdown does not shows off, the 4 other items are only displayed if you press the menu hardware button. Does anyone knows if this behaviour can be modified?
Hmmm, maybe I misunderstood, but if you wish to places those remaining four items into the overflow action menu (the 3-dot icon) then using android:showAsAction="never" instead of "collapseActionView" should do it.
...Tried a couple ways, but this did the trick:
Force overflow menu in ABS
I've met the same problem and my solution is quite simple. (I didn't use HoloEverywhere.)
The idea comes from the ABS sample project, whose drop-down menu can be displayed on pre-4.0 devices as well by using a submenu. So, my idea is using a submenu to disguise the 3-dot icon. Here's the code:
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
SubMenu sub = menu.addSubMenu("More");
sub.getItem().setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS);
sub.getItem().setIcon(R.drawable.ic_menu);
getSupportMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_main, sub);
return true;
}
Since the "More" menu doesn't have a MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_WITH_TEXT attribute, so the word "More"(or whatever you named) will actually not be displayed on the action bar. The only displayed icon R.drawable.ic_menu can be copied from ABS source code res/drawable-xxdpi folders named "abs__ic_menu_moreoverflow_normal_holo_dark.png", which is the so-called 3-dot icon. And the R.menu.activity_main is your menu xml.
It works!