I've started using the ActionBar coming with the AppCompat library. But any action I add to this, shows up in the overflow menu. I'm pretty sure I've skipped something, but I don't know at all. Here's my menu file:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#+id/connect_plus"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_google_plus"
android:title="Connect to Google+"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:titleCondensed="Connect to Google+">
</item>
</menu>
And any configuration in the onCreate method from an activity extending from ActionBarActivity:
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
getSupportActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(true);
Did I miss something?
Did I miss something?
Yes.
You need to use your own namespace:
<menu
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:yourapp="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" >
<item
android:id="#+id/connect_plus"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_google_plus"
android:title="Connect to Google+"
yourapp:showAsAction="always"
android:titleCondensed="Connect to Google+">
</item>
</menu>
as is shown in the documentation.
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I'm using AndroidX Navigation architecture and want to know is it possible to replace the ActionBar menu completely or not?
In the project, in the Menu directory, there is a home.xml file that contains a menu items:
<?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"
android:id="#+id/homeMainMenu">
<item
android:id="#+id/action_inbox"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_baseline_mail_outline_24"
android:title="#string/action_inbox"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
<item android:icon="#drawable/ic_baseline_more_vert_24"
android:title="#string/app_name"
app:showAsAction="always">
<menu>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_exitapp"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_baseline_exit_to_app_24"
android:title="#string/action_exit"
app:showAsAction="never" />
</menu>
</item>
</menu>
I want to create another menu XML file like mymenu.xml and on the fragment replace it with the home menu. Because of some reason don't want to replace items.
Is it possible? If "Yes" how to handle item click?
If i got your question correct then i guess you want to create different menu for activity and its fragment. You can do that. Please check here
Remember you've to add hasOptionsMenu in fragment onCreate
I have tried every option of the android:showAsAction, and it didn't work!
I think that maybe I can't get the concept of how to do it.
my app
how I want it
Try something like this.
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#+id/action_cart"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_cart"
android:title="Refresh"/>
<item
Your items
</item>
</menu>
http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/AndroidActionBar/article.html
I have an app (for 4.0 and above) which has couple of MenuItems in the ActionBar (one with 'always' and the rest with 'ifRoom' or 'never' property).
So the issue goes like this...
If I launch the app in landscape mode, the ActionBar looks like the following:
When I rotate to landscape from portrait, the ActionBar looks like this:
As you can see, more icons appear than they should be, i.e no space is left for title bar and the tabs menu (Navigation Menu). Actually, the 4 items are shown in the portrait mode (it's a split ActionBar) and it seems that the Android doesn't realise that there's no SplitActionBar there anymore.
Please suggest what I can do to fix this? :)
Edit
My menu.xml:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#+id/action_share"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_share"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:title="#string/share"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_viewToggle"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_view_as_grid"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
android:title="#string/switch_view"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_upload"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_upload"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
android:title="#string/upload"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_newFolder"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_new_folder"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
android:title="#string/create_folder"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_multiselect"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_select_all"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
android:title="#string/selection_mode"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_refresh"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_refresh"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
android:title="#string/refresh"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_settings"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/action_settings"/>
</menu>
Make sure you take care of each menu item visibility in your menu.xml file, check out the xml ShowAsAction attribute.
here's an example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#+id/SOME_MENU_ITEM"
android:icon="#drawable/SOME_ICON"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom" | "never" | "withText" | "always" | "collapseActionView"
android:title="SOME_TITLE"/>
.
.
One of the important attribute xml for menu items is,
android:showAsAction ,that defines the visibility of the action item.
From your code it is evident that if there is room in action bar it'll display it.
So if you don't want it to appear specify android:showAsAction value as never so that whatever the orientation is it'll appear only in the overflow menu.
I am backporting my app to API7 with AppCompat and have a problem with the actionbar.
When I use FragmentActivity the actionbar is shown on my phone (API18), but with ActionBarActivity it shows up as the optionmenu by pressing the menubutton.
On the emulator with API7 the actionbar is always shown as an optionsmenu.
Any ideas?
Use the compat name space for your menu items like this:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:compat="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" >
<item android:id="#+id/action_whatever"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_whatever"
android:title="#string/whatever"
compat:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
</menu>
Related to a duplicate that points to this post, I was having trouble making my buttons appear as action items instead of overflow items, despite having showAsAction set to always. I managed to coerce it by extending my activity with Activity instead of ActionBarActivity. According to this answer, this is acceptable if you don't need to support api levels below 11.
...extends ActionBarActivity:
...extends Activity:
I do debug with Doogee Valencia Y100Pro, and menu as "three little square" not visible, but when I extended my MainActivity with android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity, then I obtain text/icon menu in action bar. Next screenshot and menu.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_update"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_refresh"
android:title="#string/action_update"
app:showAsAction="always"/>
<item android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:title="#string/action_settings"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom"/>
</menu>
i want to add customs icons to my option menu, like that :
How can i do that with custom icons in my menu.xml ?
Or if you know the list of defaults icons, i am interested by that...
Here is my actual menu.xml code :
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="#+id/menu_settings"
android:title="#string/menu_settings"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:showAsAction="never" >
</item>
<item android:id="#+id/item1" android:title="Accueil" android:titleCondensed="Accueil" android:icon="#android:drawable/ic_menu_home"></item>
</menu>
Thanks !
Inside of the item tag, use android:icon="#drawable/your_icon". That should work.