I can't show items inside the "Menu Item" when those items are already displayed on the Action bar.
This is my onCreateOptionsMenu method:
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.opt_menu_main, menu);
return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}
This is my opt_menu_main layout:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_act_settings"
android:title="Settings"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_settings"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"/>
</menu>
I'm not using support library (my target API is 17).
If I click on the button Menu it is always empty because the item is already displayed up on the ActionBar.
I've tried to add more items but when the items goes up on the ActionBar, they are not displayed inside the options menu.
I've also tried with showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"but doesn't work.
I think this behavior is correct, but is it possible to show the same item both in Menu and Action Bar at the same time?
Thanks
Try this:
app:showAsAction="always"
but don't forget to add this line at the begin of definition:
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
The Id's for menu items must be unique. The best option is to create another menu item with another Id and set its showAsAction to "never" to force it always into the overflow menu. But their is a chance if you are also displaying other primary options it might force both into the overflow in which case you will see two menu items with the same title.
For the moment I solved like this:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_act_settings"
android:title="Settings"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_settings"
android:showAsAction="always"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_settings"
android:title="Settings"
android:showAsAction="never"/>
</menu>
So in the onOptionsItemSelected method :
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
switch (item.getItemId()) {
case R.id.menu_add_schedule:
case R.id.menu_act_add_schedule:
//some code
break;
}
return true;
}
I don't think this is a correct solution, because on some device where there is not enough space to add this and other items up on the ActionBar,
since they are defined as showAsAction="always", they will be overlapped on the ActionBar Title, so it can create some layout problems.
The behavior that I want is to show always the items on the option menu, and show it also in the action bar if there is enough space.
This behavior can not be obtained with showAsAction="always" .
It would be great if someone could find a better solution.
Thanks anyway.
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in the this activity i hava set a single icon menu,like this –
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:title=""
android:id="#+id/menu_add"
android:icon="#drawable/actionbar_add_icon"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom">
</item>
</menu>
it is menu/main_home.xml
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_home, menu);
return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}
but it show a three dots menu. i want know why
and how to show sub menu icon image ，it is normal in the Actionbar, but hide in the Toolbar
If you want to empty the contents of the menu, go to the res/menu folder and delete the item tags from the menu_main.xml file. You will also need to delete references to the items in onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item). The menu dots will disappear if there are no items.
If you want to completely remove the three dots menu, then go to the onCreateOptions(...) method in your code and delete it, or simply remove the getMenuInflater().inflate(...); portion of it. You can safely remove the onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) method as well because it will have no purpose.
The simplest way to make the menu disappear is to have the onCreateOptions(...) method return false.
this question is solved use app:showAsAction ="ifRoom" not android:showAsAction ="ifRoom"
<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">
<item
android:title=""
android:id="#+id/menu_button"
app:actionLayout="#layout/menu_single_button"
app:showAsAction = "always"
/></menu>
I have 4 items defined in xml as secondary then later I create one more in the code defined as container. I'm trying to get the one created in code (share) to be first, it's not working. It is always added to the end of the menu. I was under the impression that the menu category is what decided the action bar order. What am I missing?
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="#+id/action_unlock"
android:menuCategory="secondary"
android:title="Unlock"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
<item android:id="#+id/action_share"
android:menuCategory="secondary"
android:title="Share App"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
<item android:id="#+id/action_follow"
android:menuCategory="secondary"
android:title="Follow"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
<item android:id="#+id/action_review"
android:menuCategory="secondary"
android:title="Review"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
</menu>
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
actions = menu;
// Inflate the menu items for use in the action bar
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.layout.menu, menu);
return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}
/*
* Set whether share buttons should be available.
*/
public void setShareable (boolean shareable)
{
if (!shareable)
return;
// Build share button
MenuItem item = actions.add (Menu.NONE, Menu.NONE, Menu.CATEGORY_CONTAINER, "Share");
item.setShowAsAction (MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_IF_ROOM);
}
The correct usage of menu categories is to use FIRST instead of CONTAINER for the menu item that needs to get highest priority, and the rest as SECONDARY as used in the question.
An alternate way to order the menu items is through the android:orderInCategory attribute. Set the first preexisting menu item to, say, order 10 (even 2 would work in your case), and then you can add up to 9 other menu items before it, dynamically, by setting this attribute in the code (menu.add(Menu.NONE,Menu.NONE, order,R.string.my_menu_item). The order variable here is a little tricky, since it's an int that represents both the group association and the order within that group: see here.
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!
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.
If I define the following items for my action bar:
res/menu/action_menu.xml :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:title="label"/>
<item android:title="label1"/>
<item android:title="label2"/>
<item android:title="label3"/>
<item android:title="label4"/>
</menu>
In my Activity:
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.action_menu, menu);
return true;
}
Is there anyway to allow me define certain items move to action overflow part ? and how to do it?
P.S. Action overflow part is the right-most part of action bar which hide certain items like a popup menu.
It's the other way round. You need to explicitly tell the menu which ones you want in the ActionBar and which not by setting the appropriate flags
E.g.
<item android:id="#+id/refresh"
android:title="#string/refresh"
android:icon="#drawable/reload_button"
android:showAsAction="always"/>
Here android:showAsAction tells how to handle it. Options are
always
ifRoom
never
withText
You can or options together with the pipe symbol as "always|withText"
See the android docs for action bar for more documentation.
To add something to Heiko's answer about the "overflow menu" on the action bar, this only happens if you have items set as ifRoom and there is no room for them to be displayed. On the overflow menu they only appear with a title and no icon.
On Android 4.0, the overflow menu ("3 dot spinner") is only shown on devices that don't have the physical "menu" button. You can test this on an ADV setting the option Hardware Back/Home keys option to "no".