I am having an issue that my Settings button in my action bar is not displaying. The Menu button that I made is displaying fine, but there is nothing to the right of it (where the 3 dots are suppose to be). Anybody know if I did something wrong for it to not display? I can see it in the menu.xmp, but when I run it, it is not there.
this is my menu.xml (my.xml):
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
tools:context=".MyActivity" >
<item android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:title="#string/action_settings"
android:orderInCategory="2"
android:showAsAction="never" />
<item android:id="#+id/action_menu"
android:title="Menu"
android:orderInCategory="1"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
</menu>
Inflating Menu Here:
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu){
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.my, menu);
return true;
}
Devices with hardware menu buttons, such as the Samsung Galaxy S4 you are using to test your app, will never show the 3-dot menu button in the ActionBar/Toolbar. This is the expected behavior, as the hardware menu button negates the need for a software button. Any devices without a hardware menu button will display the 3-dot menu button as they should.
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I have a action bar set up as this:
When I click on it a settings popup appears like this which when pressed takes me to my apps settings page.
My question is how would I remove the settings popup so that it takes me directly to my settings activity when I press the three dotted button? I tried playing around with code below but it yielded no result.
#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;
}
Goto the menu folder of your project. res>>menu and find the xml file representing the
You have to add the android:showAsAction="always" like below:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="#+id/menu"
android:title="#string/menu_settings_item"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:icon="#android:drawable/ic_menu_a" />
</menu>
Use the showAsAction parameter.
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="#+id/menu"
android:title="#string/menu_settings_item"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:icon="#android:drawable/ic_menu_a" />
</menu>
You can specify that your settings option always appears as a button on the action bar. You don't need the three dots in this case.
For instance, you can specify your action bar menu item like this (notice the "always" value):
<item android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:title="#string/action_settings"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_settings"
android:showAsAction="always" />
I have two menu items: Settings and Exit. When I run my code, with both set to showAsAction:"always", none of them show up on the screen when I press the menu button on my phone. This also happens if I set both to "ifRoom". However, if I set one to "never", the other one will show up. How can I get both items to show up? I am running a ~3.5 inch android 4.1.2 phone. I am using the android:theme="#style/Theme.AppCompat" theme.
<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" >
<group android:checkableBehavior="single">
<item android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:title="#string/action_settings"
android:orderInCategory="100"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
android:icon="#drawable/sun"/>
<item android:id="#+id/exit_the_app"
android:title="#string/options_exit_text"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
android:orderInCategory="101"
android:icon="#drawable/night"/>
</group>
</menu>
This is the screen when both items are set to "always" or "ifRoom", no menu items show up:
This is the screen when settings is set to "never", the exit item shows up:
There seems to be enough room, so how do I make both items show up? Thank you.
When showAsAction is set to ifRoom or always the item is shown in the action bar instead of the overflow menu (only if there's room in the case of ifRoom). This is the expected behavior.
If you want them to both show up in the overflow menu, set showAsAction to never for both.
I suggest reading the documentation: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html
I have this menu.xml:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_preferences"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
android:title="#string/action_settings"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_connect"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_goto"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/action_connect"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_upgrade"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_refresh"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/action_upgrade"/>
</menu>
With this Activity code:
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.login, menu);
return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}
And only the action_settings action button appears. I would expect the other two to be available through the "three-dotted" menu, or the device's menu button. On the LG Optimus L3, the three-dotted menu does not appear and the device's menu button does nothing. On my Galaxy Nexus the menu does appear.
I want these other settings in a seperate menu because I don't want them to be tapped by accident. According to the documentation (emphasis mine):
The action bar provides users access to the most important action items relating to the app's current context.
If I cannot put it in the ActionBar menu, where to put the less-important action items?
It is because the LG has a hard menu button. When you press the menu button on the device, you should see the other two items.
Also, your placement of the settings icon is incorrect:
Even if there's room in the action bar, never make Settings an action
button. Always keep it in the action overflow and label it "Settings".
Place it below all other items except "Help".
http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/settings.html#flow-structure
On a Galaxy S3, I have an issue where a button in the ActionBar is configured as showAsAction="always" and being shown on both the hardware overflow menu and the Action buttons. I would like it to not be shown on the hardware overflow menu and only on the Action buttons. I can disable the menuitem in the onCreateOptionsMenu but it will hide the button on both places.
Something to note: if I force the "3 dots" Action Overflow menu to show, the refresh button gets properly hidden from the hardware overflow menu but still doesn't get hidden from the hardware overflow menu.
Something else to note: if I call menu.size() in either onCreateOptionsMenu or onPrepareOptionsMenu, it doesn't reflect the extra button. For example, I have four buttons and the first button is being shown in both the Action buttons and the overflow menu. menu.size() still returns 4 and doesn't seem to realize that it is showing an extra button.
I can't post a screenshot because this is an app for a client but here is my actionbar.xml file. The refresh button shows in both the overflow and the action bar at the top.
actionbar.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item android:id="#+id/refreshmenuitem"
android:icon="#drawable/refreshicon"
android:title="Refresh"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
android:visible="true"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
/>
<item android:id="#+id/helpbutton"
android:title="Help"
android:showAsAction="collapseActionView"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_helpbutton" />
<item android:id="#+id/settingbutton"
android:title="Settings"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_settingbutton"
android:showAsAction="collapseActionView" />
<item android:id="#+id/importbutton"
android:title="Import file"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_importbutton"
android:showAsAction="collapseActionView" />
</menu>
So I figured it out but it is kind of a hack. So if you have a phone such as the Samsung Galaxy S3 that has a hardware menu button, the onCreateOptionsMenu function actually gets called twice. Once for when the Activity gets loaded to load any menu items that should display in the top right and another time when the user presses the hardware menu button. All I did was create a variable called _firstTimeOnCreateOptionsMenu that is set to false after the first time it is onCreateOptionsMenu method:
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
// Populates the actionbar/Menu
MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.actionbarmenu, menu);
boolean hardware = false;
if(android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.ICE_CREAM_SANDWICH)
{
hardware = ViewConfiguration.get(context).hasPermanentMenuKey();
}
MenuItem b1 = menu.findItem(R.id.refreshmenuitem);
if(!hardware || _firstTimeOnCreateOptionsMenu)
{
b1.setVisible(true);
_firstTimeOnCreateOptionsMenu = false;
}
else
{
b1.setVisible(false);
_firstTimeOnCreateOptionsMenu = true;
}
}
Hopefully this helps anyone else who is having this issue.
Is your targetSdkVersion set to 14?
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2012/01/say-goodbye-to-menu-button.html
I'd be a bit surprised if this was the issue, since you'd expect unknown XML to just be ignored, but according to the documentation <item> does not support android:layout_width and android:layout_height.
I have an ActionBar that should display the action buttons in a custom way. For this I created a custom view and attached it to the ActionBar.
One thing to mention is that I am using a menu.xml resoure file to load the options menu and display them on a smartphone, but do not display them on tablet, instead use a custom view. For this I market every menu item in the xml as: android:showAsAction="never"
Everything looks fine, except one little thing that still remains on the right of the ActionBar - the "More" button.
How can I remove it?
I tried this:
ActionBar bar = activity.getActionBar();
bar.removeAllTabs();
but the "more" button still remains there.
EDIT:
This is my menu.xml file:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_username"
android:icon="#drawable/menu_username"
android:orderInCategory="0"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/menu_username">
<menu>
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_logout"
android:title="#string/menu_logout"/>
</menu>
</item>
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_settings"
android:icon="#drawable/menu_settings"
android:orderInCategory="1"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/menu_settings"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_search"
android:icon="#drawable/menu_search"
android:orderInCategory="1"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/menu_search"/>
</menu>
Please note I still want to inflate this menu on a smartphone, but don't want to use it on a tablet.
Setting showAsAction="never" will force an menu item into the overflow. Why not check in onCreateOptionsMenu(...) that the device is a tablet, and if it is just not inflate the menu? Something like this:
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
if (getResources().getConfiguration().smallestScreenWidthDp >= 600) {
//It's a tablet, don't inflate, only create the manual view
manualMenuCreation();
} else {
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu, menu);
}
return true;
}
Don't forget smallestScreenWidthDp is only available in 3.2 or above, so you'll have to take that into consideration.