I am having an issue where i have 2 items in my action bar (one 'refresh' button and one 'Save' Button, but for some reason they do not show, instead they are nested inside an options menu (3 dots). Would anyone know how to remove the 3 dots menu and display my 2 items? I have tried many things but ultimately I just end up removing all three items. Thanks in advance.
Here is my code
add_event_action.xml (this is my menu xml)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:id="#+id/action_refresh"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_refresh"
android:title="Refresh"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_save"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:title="#string/save"/>
</menu>
Here is my Java class
public class RandomActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_events_list);
}
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.add_event_action, menu);
return true;
}
#Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
switch (item.getItemId()) {
// action with ID action_refresh was selected
case R.id.action_refresh:
Toast.makeText(this, "Refresh selected", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
.show();
break;
// action with ID action_settings was selected
case R.id.action_save:
Toast.makeText(this, "Save selected", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
.show();
break;
default:
break;
}
return true;
}
}
If I understood correctly, you need two menu buttons in your toolbar.
This works for me, place it in your menu.xml:
<item
android:id="#+id/done"
android:title="#string/done"
app:showAsAction="always|withText"/>
Try to use app:showAsAction instead of android:showAsAction
To expand on the other answers somewhat:
When your activity extends from AppCompatActivity, your menu items should use app:showAsAction. When your activity does not (that is, when you're not using the AppCompat support libraries), your menu items should use android:showAsAction.
Documentation: http://tools.android.com/tips/lint-checks
AppCompatResource
Summary: Menu namespace
Priority: 5 / 10
Severity: Error
Category: Correctness
When using the appcompat library, menu resources should refer to the
showAsAction in the app: namespace, not the android: namespace.
Similarly, when not using the appcompat library, you should be using the android:showAsAction attribute.
By default android have an option to enable BACK ARROW on the left of the toolbar using
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);
same like i need TICK MARK on the right of the toolbar, is there any method to enable TICK MARK in android by default.
First download the "done" icon as png from the materials icon library
Copy the icons to your projects drawable folder.
Then create a file in res/menu called menu_example.xml
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item
android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_done_white_24dp"
android:title="#string/action_done"
app:showAsAction="always" />
</menu>
Then add the following code to your Activity.
#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_example, menu);
return true;
}
To have a onClick listener for the tick you can implement this:
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_example, menu);
return true;
}
#Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
Toast toast = Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Hello toast!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
toast.show();
return true;
}
I have an action bar with a drawer on the left. I want to add another menu on the right side of the action bar. It can be three dots or a button or anything else. Is there any way to do this?
Thanks :)
For achieving 3 dots menu in your actionBar, in your activity (which extends AppCompatActivity or ActionBarActivity), you override the creation of options menu like below
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.your_menu, menu);
return true;
}
Where this R.menu.your_menuis a resource item present in your res/menu folder. One sample menu resource file content
<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="your_package.your_activity">
<item
android:id="#+id/action_edit"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:title="#string/action_edit"
app:showAsAction="collapseActionView"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:orderInCategory="101"
android:title="#string/action_settings"
app:showAsAction="collapseActionView"/>
</menu>
This will show a menu with both the options collapsed by default. To listen for clicks on these menu items, you override onOptionsItemSelected and perform the necessary action
#Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
switch (item.getItemId()) {
case R.id.action_settings:
//Do something
...
return true;
case R.id.action_edit:
//Do something else
...
return true;
}
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
You can create a layout for your ActionBar and then use something like the following in your activity:
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true);
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayOptions(ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM);
getSupportActionBar().setCustomView(R.layout.custom_action_bar);
And in your R.layout.custom_action_bar create the buttons you need.
I am very new to Android and Java programming. What I am trying to do is to get Actionbar with couple of tabs (11 in final). I have managed to install ActionBar Sherlock but then I am stuck with adding tabs to actionbar. From what I read it looks that also I would need to add separate Fragment for each tab. Is there a simple solution how to make that work.
You don't need to have a fragment per tab in the action bar. It should just be as simple as defining your menu in xml, then in your activity initialising the action bar with your menu.
For instance your menu.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="#+id/my_menu_item"
android:showAsAction="always|withText"
android:title="Tab name here"/>
</menu>
Then in your activity override onCreateOptionsMenu:
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
getSupportMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.my_menu, menu);
return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}
Then you'll need to override onOptionItemSelected to respond to when a tab is pressed:
#Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
switch (item.getItemId()) {
case R.id.my_menu_item:
//do something
}
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
How to disable/hide three-dot indicator(Option menu indicator) on ICS handsets which does't have menu button. ?
I am running application as <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="5"/> in Manifest, code is compiled with 4.0. Three-dot indicator shows on every screen.
Example for preference activities i don't want show Three-dot indicator, since it does't have any menu options.
Adding android:targetSdkVersion="14" in manifest it works. However don't want hide/remove three dots button on all screens . Only in preference activities don't want to show this three dots button.
Override onPrepareOptionsMenu() in the fragment of the preference with this:
#Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
MenuItem item= menu.findItem(R.id.menu_settings);
item.setVisible(false);
super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
return true;
}
if you have more then one item set all the items visibility flag to false
and add the command setHasOptionsMenu(true);
to the onCreate command
after you will set all the visibility of the items to false the menu will disappear
on activity, the only difference is the onPrepareOptionsMenu is boolean and you don't need to add the setHasOptionsMenu(true); command on the creation
I just deleted the method :
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(com.actionbarsherlock.view.Menu menu) {
getSupportMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
return true;
}
then that three-dot-menu goes away (:
Hope it helps.
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
return false;
}
There is no way to show/hide "three-dot" menu indicator for a single activity. You can hide this menu indicator only for entire app by specifying android:targetSdkVersion="14" (or above) in your manifest file.
However, this menu indicator is not showing on preferences activity if it extends from native android.preference.PreferenceActivity class. I have this scenario implemented in a few of my apps, and it works perfectly.
I assume you are using some custom preferences implementations which does not extends from PreferenceActivity. Android Dev Team suggests to always use PreferenceActivity for any preferences in your applications.
Way too late to the party here, I was trying to remove all my menu items and the 3-dots(option menu indicator), I did differently than the solution given here I am surprised that nobody had told it. There is a visibility tag that can be set to false and no changing of code in activity is required visibility=false does the trick
in res / menu /..
<item
android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:showAsAction="never"
visibility=false
android:title="#string/action_settings"/>
override method and return false remember of not call super
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
return false;
}
Remove this item in res / menu / main.xml
<item
android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/action_settings"/>
In addition: do not add an item that has showAsAction="never"- this will avoid the dots from showing. If you have more items than can not be shown at once the dots will be there again (and they are items that are flagged ifRoom).
Following code worked for my app. Tried on Samsung Galaxy S4 (Android 4.3) and Nexus 4 (Android 4.2):
#Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
MenuItem item= menu.findItem(R.id.action_settings);
item.setVisible(false);
return true;
}
for hiding 3 dots in actionbar/ toolbar
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_dash_board_drawer, menu);
return false; //for visible 3 dots change to true, hiding false
}
You can actually change the Android targetVersion thus forcing the 3-dot menu to either hide or show. You need to override onCreate of your Activity like this :
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
getApplicationInfo().targetSdkVersion = 10; // To enable the 3-dot menu call this code before super.OnCreate
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
}
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
getApplicationInfo().targetSdkVersion = 14; // To disable the 3-dot menu call this code before super.OnCreate
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
}
Tested on Android 4.x.x and Android 3.0
I just excluded the "onCreateOptionsMenu"-method:
#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_planos, menu);
return true;
}
If you simply want to hide the button, this solution is a bit of a hack but works across all versions of Android (using AppCompat) and doesn't affect your other menu items:
styles.xml
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
...
<item name="android:actionOverflowButtonStyle">#style/AppTheme.Overflow</item>
<!-- If you're using AppCompat, instead use -->
<item name="actionOverflowButtonStyle">#style/AppTheme.Overflow</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme" />
<style name="AppTheme.Overflow">
<item name="android:src">#null</item>
</style>
If you want the Overflow button hidden only on some screens, you could make this an alternate theme (change AppTheme above to AppTheme.NoOverflow) that only certain activities use :
AndroidManifest.xml
<activity android:name=".NoOverflowActivity"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme.NoOverflow" >
This effectively just makes the icon have no width and height. I rarely recommend opposing design guidelines but in my scenario we used dedicated hardware that did not properly report a menu button was present.
Just want to improve #war_hero answer.
If You wanna set the visibility on run time You can use oncreateoptions menu parameter like this
Menu overflow;
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.mymenu, menu);
this.overflow = menu;
return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}
and then make a function to show or hide any menu item according to the index. for e.g.
public void hideorShowMenuItems(boolean bool){
overflow.getItem(1).setVisible(bool);
overflow.getItem(2).setVisible(bool);
overflow.getItem(3).setVisible(bool);
overflow.getItem(4).setVisible(bool);
overflow.getItem(5).setVisible(bool);
}
Copy paste this code in main.xml in menu folder
you just need to make the item android:visible="false"
<?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_settings"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:visible="false"
android:title="#string/action_settings"
app:showAsAction="never" />
</menu>
Should be:
<item
android:id="#+id/linearlayout_splash"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:visible="false"
android:title="#string/action_settings"/>
If MainActivity is
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity
In MainActivity Class, Remove the below 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.main, menu);
return true;
}
#Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
// Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
// automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
// as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
int id = item.getItemId();
//noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
return true;
}
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
Do it like this.
#Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// if nav drawer is opened, hide the action items
boolean drawerOpen = mDrawerLayout.isDrawerOpen(leftDrawer);
return (!drawerOpen);
}
I am checking if my navigation drawer is visible I will hide the menu and vice versa. You can use it according to you requirement. Hope this helps. Happy Coding. :)
This is how I find a solution of mine. It maybe helpful.
#Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keycode, KeyEvent event ) {
//KEYCODE_MENU
if(keycode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_MENU){
/* AlertDialog.Builder dialogBuilder
= new AlertDialog.Builder(this)
.setMessage("Test")
.setTitle("Menu dialog");
dialogBuilder.create().show();*/
return true;
// finish();
}
return super.onKeyDown(keycode,event);
}
I just used
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
return true;
}
Where R.menu.main is only an empty menu xml
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" ></menu>