Are there default icons for a menu item whose functionality is to change gridview to listview or vice versa. I know there are some icons like search, done, edit etc. I just couldn't find any for this purpose.
You can view all default icons in sdk/platforms/apiversion/android.jar
just unzip it and you can see all the icons
Depending on Muhammad's comment, there is no such icon in sdk/platforms/api version/android.jar on API 21.
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I have created options menu it has some attributes like android:I'd, android : title,android:icon etc how can I set a image as android option menu and also I want title of the item below the icon not beside the icon
You cannot do this easily and you should not. What you explain sounds more like Tabs to me, which you could use instead. With these you'll get text below the icon out of the box.
I am working on an Android application where I have to design a menu which will populate from the action bar, like this:
I have tried my best but was not able to produce it using the Android controls.
The solutions I have tried are:
With Actionbar, add a menu item with a group with selectable="all", that produces the layout I need but when I click a checkbox for selecting it, the whole menu hides and selection is not done, moreover the menu icon in actionbar does not have the bottom right white arrow.
Tried creating a custom ActionProvider and added the menu items using class's OnPrepareSubMenu method but had the same issue.
I just need a push in the right direction and I can do the rest, suggestions are more than welcome.
Thank you :)
Use popupWindow.
In that you can make any custom layout and set it as content of your popupwindow and also you can specify an ANCHOR in your case it would be
R.id.your_menu_item
set a listener and listen the changes.
I need to implement a custom overflow menu with menu items and the overflow icon if the screen size cannot show all the icons. I cannot use a side scroll since I am already inside an expanded list view. I cannot use the Top or bottom action bar menu because the action will change based on what list item has been expanded.
So I would like to create my own overflow menu - similar to the gmail screenshots attached
Any ideas? Apparently ABS can be used for this but I can't figure it out, please help :)
ListPopupWindow is what you're looking for. It's an API 11+ class, however. ABS includes a backported version which is basically just a ListView inside a PopupWindow (both API 1 classes).
I want to make a action-bar drop-down-menu that shows items (icons) horizontally. Like this:
This is suppose to be a action-bar withe drop-down menu, where you can choose a color.
So it should show the icons (colors) horizontally and the icons should be clickable. Until now I have only managed to make a vertical list.
If possible I would like to do this in XML.
The ActionBar is not designed for such a use-case. The ActionBar buttons are meant to replace the old options menu that could be triggered with a separate hardware button on older devices (pre HC/ICS). The overflow button (the one with the 3 dots) that you've drawn in your sketch is used when there isn't enough room to show all buttons (the Android framework takes care of this automatically), so those will be grouped in the overflow menu. Overriding this behavior is a bad idea (if even possible).
Instead you should consider another approach: Add one ActionButton to the ActionBar that is meant to handle the color chooser. When this button is clicked the best solution is to show an AlertDialog (you can easily insert your on Views here that show the colors you want) because this will work best even if the button is hidden in the overflow menu.
Alternatively you could trigger a PopupMenu or implement some QuickAction to handle the color chooser (this will probably suck if your button is hidden in the overflow menu and will also lead to a very confusing UI).
Can the drop-down navigation list in an ActionBar be modified to include an icon on its left-hand side? Basically I want an icon alongside the action bar entry itself, and not on the individual list items.
Thanks in advance, Peter.
You supply the SpinnerAdapter for use with the drop-down navigation list. Choose an appropriate resource for the closed state (i.e., the resource you supply to the ArrayAdapter constructor), one that has your desired icon in the desired position.