I am trying to implement Option menu with icons but i m trying to set background on option menu but not succeeded how to achieve please help me
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
MenuInflater inflater=getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu,menu);
setMenuBackground();
return true;
}
protected void setMenuBackground(){
// Log.d(TAG, "Enterting setMenuBackGround");
getLayoutInflater().setFactory( new Factory() {
public View onCreateView(String name, Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
if ( name.equalsIgnoreCase( "com.android.internal.view.menu.IconMenuItemView" ) ) {
try { // Ask our inflater to create the view
LayoutInflater f = getLayoutInflater();
final View view = f.createView( name, null, attrs );
/* The background gets refreshed each time a new item is added the options menu.
* So each time Android applies the default background we need to set our own
* background. This is done using a thread giving the background change as runnable
* object */
new Handler().post( new Runnable() {
public void run () {
// sets the background color
view.setBackgroundResource( R.color.androidcolor);
// sets the text color
((TextView) view).setTextColor(Color.BLACK);
// sets the text size
((TextView) view).setTextSize(18);
}
} );
return view;
}
catch ( InflateException e ) {}
catch ( ClassNotFoundException e ) {}
}
return null;
}});
}
See ActionBarStyleGenerator
Wher you need to set Popup color which will change the menu background as you want. Download generated style and apply in your project.
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I tried couple of techniques to change the background of my menu options (default is black and I have to change it), but nothing worked for me. I am using min sdk 11.
Two approaches that I used:
First) Changing in onCreateOptionsMenu function:
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
MenuInflater inflater = new MenuInflater(getApplicationContext());
inflater.inflate(R.menu.options_menu, menu);
setMenuBackground();
return true;
}
/*IconMenuItemView is the class that creates and controls the options menu
* which is derived from basic View class. So We can use a LayoutInflater
* object to create a view and apply the background.
*/
protected void setMenuBackground(){
getLayoutInflater().setFactory( new Factory() {
#Override
public View onCreateView ( String name, Context context, AttributeSet attrs ) {
if ( name.equalsIgnoreCase( "com.android.internal.view.menu.IconMenuItemView" ) ) {
try { // Ask our inflater to create the view
LayoutInflater f = getLayoutInflater();
final View view = f.createView( name, null, attrs );
/*
* The background gets refreshed each time a new item is added the options menu.
* So each time Android applies the default background we need to set our own
* background. This is done using a thread giving the background change as runnable
* object
*/
new Handler().post( new Runnable() {
public void run () {
view.setBackgroundResource( R.drawable.my_gradient);
}
} );
return view;
}
catch ( InflateException e ) {}
catch ( ClassNotFoundException e ) {}
}
return null;
}
});
}
}
Second) Changing in styles.xml
<style name="Theme_MyStyled" parent="AppBaseTheme">
<item name="android:panelFullBackground">#drawable/my_gradient</item>
</style>
My drawable is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:shape="rectangle" >
<gradient android:startColor="#990000ff" android:centerColor="#99800000" android:endColor="#99FFD485" android:angle="270" />
</shape>
Can someone tell how can it work for me? Thanks in advance..
I have created one simple menu with two options that says "Add new contact" & "Settings" with white png images.
So now if i run in the 2.3.3 android OS version it looks like the below image:
now if i run in the 2.2 android os then it looks like the below image:
So now what can i do if i want to make background black in android 2.2 so that i can get icons visible.
please give me any suggestion regarding this issue.
The best way to deal with option menu is to customize it.
You can customize the option menu, including:
Add a custom font
Change font size
Change font color
Set background to a Drawable resource (e.g. image, border, gradient)
To change background to a border or gradient you have to create a resource folder in res called drawable and, inside it, create the border XML or gradient XML.
This can all be done programatically as shown below:
public class CustomMenu extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); }
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(android.view.Menu menu) {
MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.cool_menu, menu);
getLayoutInflater().setFactory(new Factory() {
public View onCreateView(String name, Context context,
AttributeSet attrs) {
if (name.equalsIgnoreCase( "com.android.internal.view.menu.IconMenuItemView")) {
try {
LayoutInflater li = LayoutInflater.from(context);
final View view = li.createView(name, null, attrs);
new Handler().post(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
// set the background drawable if you want that or keep it default
//either FOR image, border, gradient, drawable,etc.//
view.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.myimage);
((TextView) view).setTextSize(20);
// set the text font and color
Typeface face = Typeface.createFromAsset(
getAssets(),"OldeEnglish.ttf");
((TextView) view).setTypeface(face);
((TextView) view).setTextColor(Color.RED); } });
return view; }
catch (InflateException e) {
//Handle any inflation exception here
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
//Handle any ClassNotFoundException here
} }
return null; } });
return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu); }
I have to change my background color of menu options to black for android 2.2 and higher, I tried it with solutions given :
protected void setMenuBackground(){
// Log.d(TAG, "Enterting setMenuBackGround");
getLayoutInflater().setFactory( new Factory() {
public View onCreateView(String name, Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
if ( name.equalsIgnoreCase( "com.android.internal.view.menu.IconMenuItemView" ) ) {
try { // Ask our inflater to create the view
LayoutInflater f = getLayoutInflater();
final View view = f.createView( name, null, attrs );
new Handler().post( new Runnable() {
public void run () {
// sets the background color
view.setBackgroundResource(R.color.black);
// sets the text color
((TextView) view).setTextColor(Color.WHITE);
// sets the text size
((TextView) view).setTextSize(18);
}
} );
return view;
}
catch ( InflateException e ) {}
catch ( ClassNotFoundException e ) {}
}
return null;
}
});
}
But it is showing Fatal exception error
"04-27 17:03:38.831: E/AndroidRuntime(923): java.lang.IllegalStateException: A factory has already been set on this LayoutInflater" . Am I doing something wrong ??
If I understand your question correctly. You should be able to do this in XML. Override context menu colors in Android
I would like to display badges on menu items. How do I do it?
Basically, I don't want to draw or use the canvas to do so.
You could try creating a LayerListDrawable, with your regular icon as the first layer and your badge as the second layer, then use that with setIcon() on MenuItem.
The options menu in Android can be customized to set the background or change the text appearance. The background and text color in the menu couldn’t be changed using themes and styles.
The Android source code (data\res\layout\icon_menu_item_layout.xml) uses a custom item of class “com.android.internal.view.menu.IconMenuItem”View for the menu layout. We can make changes in the above class to customize the menu. To achieve the same, use the LayoutInflater factory class and set the background and text color for the view.
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.my_menu, menu);
getLayoutInflater().setFactory(new Factory() {
#Override
public View onCreateView(String name, Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
if (name .equalsIgnoreCase(“com.android.internal.view.menu.IconMenuItemView”)) {
try{
LayoutInflater f = getLayoutInflater();
final View view = f.createView(name, null, attrs);
new Handler().post(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
// Set the background drawable
view .setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.my_ac_menu_background);
// Set the text color
((TextView) view).setTextColor(Color.WHITE);
}
});
return view;
}
catch (InflateException e) {
}
catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
}
}
return null;
}
});
return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}
Menuitem has an attribute icon, for example:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#+id/mi_main_preferences"
android:title="#string/cmd_preferences"
android:icon="#android:drawable/ic_menu_preferences">
</item>
</menu>
Above example uses system icon (preferences menu).
I have used the following code to customize the background of options menu successfully.
getLayoutInflater().setFactory(new Factory() {
#Override
public View onCreateView(String name, Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
if (name.equalsIgnoreCase("com.android.internal.view.menu.IconMenuItemView")) {
try { // Ask our inflater to create the view
LayoutInflater f = getLayoutInflater();
final View view = f.createView(name, null, attrs);
/*
* The background gets refreshed each time a new item is
* added the options menu. So each time Android applies
* the default background we need to set our own
* background. This is done using a thread giving the
* background change as runnable object
*/
new Handler().post(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
view.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.blue_bg_pixel);
}
});
return view;
}
catch (InflateException e) {
}
catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
}
}
return null;
}
});
Now I have to customize menu size, text size/color. Anybody plz help me in this.
Thanks in advance.
This fails on Android 2.3
See
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4441#c6
and
Change menu background color on android 2.3
for details
Width , Heigth you need hack action bar to that.
But if you need customize, use : ActionBarGenerator (http://jgilfelt.github.io/android-actionbarstylegenerator/)