I have a problem: I want to put a search Icon on the Action Bar. In Android Studio it shows it on the Action Bar, but when I open the App it only shows it in the menu..
Here is my xml code:
<item
android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:title="#string/action_settings"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:showAsAction="never" />
<item
android:id="#+id/action_search"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_search"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
android:title="#string/action_search"/>
I tried many things but it wont work. I hope you can help me.
It still doesn't work I really don't have a clue why.
You're not specifying your ActionView class, which is probably part of the problem. Here is the xml for a search action view that I use in one of my applications that works fine.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#+id/search_user"
android:actionViewClass="android.widget.SearchView"
android:icon="#drawable/magnifing_glass"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom|collapseActionView"
android:title="#string/action_search"/>
</menu>
EDIT:
If you're not trying to use it as an ActionView, disregard the above and use showAsAction="always".
Your problem is either that there is not enough space on the action bar to display the icon, or your device has a dedicated menu button.
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it seems that what ever i did i cant set the icons visible to the tool bar, i've tried to do researches on many platforms, but nothing helped.
here is the xml menu:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<menu
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:id="#+id/event_ic"
android:icon="#mipmap/ic_event"
android:title="profile"
android:showAsAction="always"
/>
<item
android:id="#+id/details_menu"
android:title="details"
android:showAsAction="never"/>
</menu>
you can see that even if i set the android:showAsAction to always, i still get the event item in the pop up menu without the icon.
A common pattern I see in many apps that provide some search functionality is to have the search widget clear the other menu icons off of the ActionBar. This works for me right now just by using ifRoom for showAsAction in my menu items. I'd like to show more menu items in the actionbar though, because it seems that the ActionBar is very conservative with how it determines ifRoom and consequently at least one important menu item is pushed to the overflow (perhaps someone smarter than me knows why they do that).
So how can I set showAsAction as always while still clearing the menu items off of the ActionBar when the Search Widget is activated? When I try that now, the menu items don't move, and the search widget is condensed.
Here's my menu:
<item
android:id="#+id/action_search"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_search"
android:title="#string/action_search"
android:showAsAction="collapseActionView|always"
android:actionViewClass="android.widget.SearchView" />
<item
android:id="#+id/action_stores"
android:title="#string/action_stores"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_stores"
android:showAsAction="always" />
<item
android:id="#+id/action_shopping_lists"
android:title="#string/action_shopping_lists"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_lists"
android:showAsAction="always" />
<item
android:id="#+id/action_preferences"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:title="#string/action_settings"
app:showAsAction="never"/>
My searchable.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<searchable xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:hint="#string/search_hint" >
</searchable>
Couldn't you set an onClickListener on the search widget that then runs some few lines of code to make the other MenuItems change from 'always' to 'ifRoom'?
The few lines of code within the onClickListener would contain something like this:
myMenuItem.setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_IF_ROOM);
whereas myMenuItem is your MenuItem that should go from 'always' to 'ifRoom'.
You can change it back later in an appropriate method.
Im using the ActionBarActivity on my activity and inflating the following menu
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:microecs="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item android:id="#+id/menu_refresh"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_refresh"
android:title="#string/description_refresh"
android:orderInCategory="1"
microecs:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
<!--TODO: get a good logout icon-->
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_logoff"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_logout"
android:title="#string/description_logoff"
android:orderInCategory="2"
microecs:showAsAction="never" />
</menu>
The second menu item drawable that i want to appear as a menu and not in the action bar doesn't not appear in my S4 (running 4.3) and also on lower devices running 2.3.7
Just update your code with following code.
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:microecs="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item android:id="#+id/menu_refresh"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_refresh"
android:title="#string/description_refresh"
android:orderInCategory="1"
microecs:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
<!--TODO: get a good logout icon-->
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_logoff"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_logout"
android:title="#string/description_logoff"
android:orderInCategory="2"
microecs:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
</menu>
Whenever you are using never then it dont place that item in the Action Bar.
For about menu refer this link.
This is not possible by design. Overflow menus from the action bar don't show icons - that's just a design decision Google made.
You can check more, e.g. here: Displaying icon for menu items of Action Bar in Honeycomb android 3.0
In my action bar I have 2 different icons that load different data. I want to remove my popup dialog's when the data is loading and replace the icon in the action bar with an indeterminate spinner whilst the data's loading, and then go back to the original icon.
What will be the best way of doing this? Will I need a custom action bar layout? At the moment my action bar icon's are just set up from a XML file
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:title="#string/clear_stored_data"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:icon="#drawable/content_discard"
android:showAsAction="never" />
<item android:id="#+id/refresh_list"
android:title="#string/refresh_list"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:icon="#drawable/navigation_refresh"
android:showAsAction="always" />
<item android:id="#+id/search_using_location"
android:title="#string/search_using_current_location_short"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:icon="#drawable/device_access_location_found"
android:showAsAction="always" />
You might want to take a look at the RefreshActionItem project on Github. It's a third party component that does exactly what you are looking for.
I am working with the Android 3.0.
I have in the action bar 3 items and one of them is the menu of the application, it also has sub-menu in it.
I want to change the order of the icons so the menu won't be in the right place, I want it to be between the two other items. I tried to change the order in the xml with no success.
Does anyone has an idea how to set the order?
Try setting android:menuCategory and android:orderInCategory for your menu items to set the ordering.
Example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="#+id/launch_search"
android:icon="#android:drawable/ic_menu_search"
android:title="#string/search_programs"
android:menuCategory="container"
android:orderInCategory="2"
android:showAsAction="always" />
<item android:id="#+id/preferences_screen"
android:icon="#android:drawable/ic_menu_preferences"
android:title="#string/preferences" />
<item android:id="#+id/refresh"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_refresh"
android:menuCategory="container"
android:orderInCategory="1"
android:title="#string/refresh_items"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
</menu>
It will have the same effect as declaring launch_search -action as last, but this way you'll have your actions in the right order for 2.x and older devices while being able to control action ordering for 3.x -devices.
The menu will always go to the right, you cannot control its placement.