I want to add a toggle switch to my action bar, however it does not seem to appear.
This is what I get as my screen
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1o-MgL-CQBFbml4VWZRdlptUWM/view?usp=sharing
I followed another post of the fourms to get the code -- How to add a switch to android action bar?
Tried all the suggested methods but am currently using Ezequiel's
This is my code
menu_main
<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.json.example.myapplication.MainActivity" >
<item
android:id="#+id/switchId"
android:title=""
app:showAsAction="always"
android:actionLayout="#layout/switch_layout"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:title="#string/action_settings"
app:showAsAction="never"/>
</menu>
switch_layout
<?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="match_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<Switch
android:id="#+id/switchAB"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true" />
</RelativeLayout>
Activity that inflates menu
package com.json.example.myapplication;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
return true;
}
#Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
// Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
// automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
// as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
int id = item.getItemId();
//noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
return true;
}
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
}
Why is the switch not appearing, Am I simply mistyping something (if so what) or is there an error in the guide I am reading?
Change
android:actionLayout="#layout/switch_layout"
to
app:actionLayout="#layout/switch_layout"
Related
I want to add 2 or 3 icons on action Bar in android app. I already took the empty activity and added the toolbar. I also set the Icon at left side. Now i want to add another two icons on it. But there is no Menu folder in my project directory structure. So any one tell me how i can do this all with proper guidelines?
My code is here :
My activity file
public class ActionBarActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_action_bar);
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
getSupportActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.left_nav);
getSupportActionBar().setTitle("");
getWindow().clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
}
}
my .xml file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
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:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#ffffff"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
tools:context="firstapp.vaibhav.com.firstapp.ActionBarActivity">
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
app:popupTheme="#style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay" />
</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>
</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>
Screen shot of my project directory structure
1. Create a menu folder in your existing resource res folder. (Ex. .../res/menu)
2. Create a main.xml file in menu folder. (Ex. .../res/menu/main.xml)
main.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/action_item_one"
android:title="Camera"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_camera"
app:showAsAction="always" />
<item
android:id="#+id/action_item_two"
android:title="Send"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_send"
app:showAsAction="always" />
</menu>
3. In your activity, Override onCreateOptionsMenu() and onOptionsItemSelected() to work with option menus.
ActionBarActivity.java
#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, menu);
return true;
}
#Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
// Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
// automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
// as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
int id = item.getItemId();
//noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
if (id == R.id.action_camera) {
// Do something
return true;
}
if (id == R.id.action_send) {
// Do something
return true;
}
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
OUTPUT
Hope this will help~
create menu.xml with item like this
<?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_settings"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:title="#string/action_settings"
app:showAsAction="never" />-->
<item
android:id="#+id/action_refresh"
android:orderInCategory="100"
app:showAsAction="always"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_autorenew"
android:title="Search"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_search"
android:orderInCategory="100"
app:showAsAction="always"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_search"
android:title="Search"/>
</menu>
and use it in activity
#Override
public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
// MenuInflater inflater1 = getActivity().getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.cartmenu, menu);
return ;
}
in your res/menu/menu_main.xml:
add
<?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/icon_id"
android:visible="true"
android:title="#string/icon_name"
android:icon="#drawable/your_image"
app:showAsAction="always">
</item>
</menu>
in your activity:
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
// return true so that the menu pop up is opened
return true;
}
To access your menu item in activity add:
#Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
int id = item.getItemId();
if (id == R.id.your_item_id) {
// your code
return true;
}
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
You can use showAsAction option found at item in menu resource file.
1) If you want to add popup menu then write app:showAsAction="never"
2) If you want to add icons as an action (multiple icons in actionbar) then write app:showAsAction="always"
I am trying to use custom menu in my android app. I want to add some menu items.
For the purpose, I add following in 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=".MainActivity">
<item
android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:title="#string/action_settings"
app:showAsAction="always" />
<item
android:id="#+id/contact"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_star"
android:orderInCategory="2000"
android:title="#string/Rate"
app:showAsAction="always" />
</menu>
And in MainActivity:
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
menu.clear();
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
}
#Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
// Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
// automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
// as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
int id = item.getItemId();
//noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
if (id == R.id.action_settings)
{
Toast.makeText(this,"Hello from settings",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
return true;
}
if ( id == R.id.contact)
{
startActivity(new Intent(this,ContactUs.class));
return true;
}
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
But, it is not working at all.
I tried some solutions on SO, but none of them worked.
e.g. this
Please help me to solve this.
You have to set your toolbar like
setActionBar(toolbar);
in onCreate()
I am trying to add DPAD navigation support for my app. However, I found it is not possible to move the focus to the action menu items on Android 5. But it works fine on Android 4.4.4, see attached screenshot below, the robot icon is focused and highlighted.
Same code does not work on Android 5.1.1 Nexus7. Does anyone have any idea?
Attached my code and xmls.
MainActivity.java:
package com.example.zzztest;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}
#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, menu);
return true;
}
#Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
// Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
// automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
// as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
int id = item.getItemId();
if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
return true;
}
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
}
Menu XML:
<item
android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:title="#string/action_settings"
app:showAsAction="never"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_asdf"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:title="#string/action_settings"
app:showAsAction="always"/>
</menu>
Layout XML:
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/hello_world" />
</RelativeLayout>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:title="#string/action_settings"
app:showAsAction="always"/>
I used app:showAsAction="always".
Press Dpad "Menu" Button and it can be selected.
I am creating a very simple action bar. I have just added 2 items in the menu but still it does not work for Android 4.1. It does work on nexus 5 emulator though.
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=".MainActivity" >
<item
android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:title="#string/action_settings"
app:showAsAction="never"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_exit"
android:title="Exit"
app:showAsAction="never"/>
</menu>
MainActivity.java
package com.mycompany.actionbaractivitypractise;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
return true;
}
#Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
// Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
// automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
// as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
int id = item.getItemId();
//noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
return true;
}
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
}
Any comments or suggestions will be helpful. Thank you
Your java code is correct but in menu_menu.xml instead of app: use android it will work :
Example:
<item
android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:title="#string/action_settings"
android:showAsAction="never"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_exit"
android:title="Exit"
android:showAsAction="never"/>
Hi I am very new to android development and have gone through many questions in stack over flow but did not get any answer for this.
I want all the share intents to come as a drop down list but i get on button beside and one as a drop down list why is like this. I could explain better by sharing my screen shot but stackoverflow,com does not allow me to.
My mainactivity.java file is:
package com.example.myfirstapp;
import android.support.v4.view.MenuItemCompat;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.support.v7.widget.ShareActionProvider;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
}
#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, menu);
MenuItem shareItem=menu.findItem(R.id.action_share);
ShareActionProvider m=(ShareActionProvider)MenuItemCompat.getActionProvider(shareItem);
m.setShareIntent(getDefaultIntent());
return true;
}
private Intent getDefaultIntent() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
Intent intent=new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("text/plain");
return intent;
}
#Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
// Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
// automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
// as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
int id = item.getItemId();
if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
return true;
}
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
}
`
My main.xml is:
<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.example.myfirstapp.MainActivity" >
<item
android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:title="#string/action_settings"
app:showAsAction="never"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_search"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_search"
android:title="#string/action_search"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_share"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_share"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:title="#string/action_share"
app:showAsAction="always"
app:actionProviderClass="android.support.v7.widget.ShareActionProvider"/>
</menu>
PLEASE any one help me
The last share provider is shown for the user's convenience. If the user regularly uses the same provider, e.g. Facebook, then they can simply click on a single button to share, rather than having to drop down the list and then select it. Of course they can drop down the list and choose a different one if they want to.
Perhaps you only have 2 share providers installed, so it looks a bit awkward.