Hello is there a generator online for the actionBarOverflowIcon?
http://romannurik.github.io/AndroidAssetStudio/
Is a great generator for other items, but it's missing the actionbaroverflowicon generator.
Would like to do this other than having my designer create a set for my visual design.
You can clearly see it in there just go to clip art and select the overflow button which is located top left of the list. click here to see the styled overflow button.
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I do not want to show a menu for only Settings and About, that's why i want the overflow button to open (immediately when clicked) a unified Settings-About page, the same way Instagram does.
At first i thought i might just do a menu with one action that is set to always Shown and has the overflow button icon (the three dots). But there are a lot of icons for different themes and i also think this wouldn't be correct for devices with a menu button.
Follow this:
Go to style, change your theme DarkActionBar to noActionBar.
Add the android design support to your gradle.
Add toolbar to your xml
Add Imageview or imageviewbutton inside your toolbar
Find the three dot image in drawable using image asset
Add your three dot drawable as src of your imageview.
Set oncClick then intent.
I'm trying to create a custom popup/drop down menu on Android where when I click the action button from action bar the list of overflow options will appear but in a different format (image on right instead of left, button, etc). I tried to find some question and the one close to this is this question but the answer is incomplete and lacks the explanation. Now what I tried so far is to replicate it but removed the DropDown class but nothing happens as expected. I also tried some ways using the xml menu but its just giving me the same result of image on left and text on right. I think setActionView also doesn't work the way I expected it. Hope someone can help me on this.
I am trying to set image in overflow menu items like as in flipkart.But I am unable to set image.Can anybody provide me code snippet for doing this
If you are trying on Android 3.0+, it won't show icons in the menu items. Google has removed them in order to make the menu look similar on different apps. See icon in menu not showing in android and on Android Developers blog.
It is not possible to add icons in overflow menu item as per googles new change, If u still want, try this.
for device with overflow hardware button:
override hardware button click and show a transparent fragment with list view as like over flow menu in samsung devices(S3, s4) with icon.
for devices without hardware button:
use sub menu to look as menu. google still supports icon in sub menu.
That's how it's supposed to work.
If the icon shows in the action bar, it will only show the icon (with an optional title by using android:showAsAction="always|withText" or android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText").
If the icon does not show in the action bar, it will only show in the overflow menu as text. Note that there is no "withIcon" enum value for the android:showAsAction attribute.
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).