I have an action bar where I have an icon of my choice. I want this icon to appear under three dots icon, which appears only as a result of overflow of action bar, when it lacks space. I want my action bar icon appear only as a sub menu of three dots button, not as a top level icon. How should I achieve this? Can I force this three dots icon to appear always in action bar, regardless of how many icons fit?
In your menu's XML, add android:showAsAction="never":
<item
android:id="#+id/always_in_overflow"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/your_menu_item_title"/>
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I tried to add an icon to the Action Bar, in ShowAsAction I set it to ifRoom. But no matter how, the icon only shows up in the 3 dot menu and never show up in the Action Bar, what are the possible cause of this issue?
I have enabled the up button by calling setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled on getSupportActionBar(). But the icon showing in the action bar is not good compared to the default one.
An arrow icon is appearing as back/up button in the action bar, I was expecting a arrow head only for button default. All the examples in web are showing array head for back /up button.
How to make the icon just arrow head ?
You can change the action bar navigation icon by the below method
actionBar.setHomeAsUpIndicator(R.drawable.your_icon);
Let me explain my current scenario.
I have a split action bar. From what I understand all action items will go to the bottom of the split action bar. I want to have some action items in the top action bar so I made a custom action bar by making an xml file for it.
In my onCreate, I have this to set up the top action bar...(custom_actionbar is an xml file I made.)
getActionBar().setDisplayOptions(
ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_HOME | ActionBar.DISPLAY_HOME_AS_UP
| ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM);
View view = View.inflate(getApplicationContext(),
R.layout.custom_actionbar, null);
getActionBar().setCustomView(view);
So this works to set up the top of the action bar.
Now I am getting closer to my problem. I can currently get an action overflow icon in the bottom of the split action bar, but I want the icon to be at the top of the split action bar.
For a simple action bar it is possible to set the action overflow icon by doing android:showAsAction = "never" in the respective menu xml file.
HOWEVER, if I am doing a custom action bar for the top, I can not do this. This will only apply to the bottom action bar as all of the elements in the respective menu xml file will go to the bottom of a split action bar.
Does anyone know how I can get the action overflow icon to appear at the top of the split action bar or should I remodel everything in a different way? Like just have a normal action bar and then have some strip to hold image buttons at the bottom to mimic a split action bar? Or is there a way to get the elements in the menu xml file to go to the top of the split action bar?
Any Help is appreciated.
Thanks
By what i understand you want to have the overflow menu in the top action bar which is a custom xml file. You can actually mimic that overflow menu icon and the options list in the custom xml file if required. It is basically a hack to use popup windows with a list adapter to mimic the overflow menu behavior. Check the link: http://rajeshandroiddeveloper.blogspot.com/2013/07/android-popupwindow-example-in-listview.html
Hopefully this solves you problem.
So there is no real "good" way of having the action overflow button in the top of a split action bar menu. There are several ways that one could go about doing this.
Create a custom view for the top, have an image button that represents the action overflow menu icon and launch a pop up menu onClick to simulate the action overflow menu.
Create a regular (single) action bar and then create a custom view that will be at the bottom of the activity that will resemble the bottom of a split action bar. The action bar can get the action overflow menu if at-least one menu item is set to android:showAsAction = "never"
I personally went with option 2 because I could not find a suitable icon that represents the action overflow icon.
I am using the action bar in my app, and I have two qustions:
1 As the image below, the items(item 1,item 2, item 3) is displayed without icon, is it possible to show the icon?
In fact the icon is set in the menu.xml.
2 Is it possible to know if the action bar is split-ed?
I use android:uiOptions="splitActionBarWhenNarrow" to make the actionbar split-ed if necessary, but I want to know if it is split-ed in the runtime.
Does anyone know how to add "menu" text under the dots menu icons in action bar?
Also, how can I make my option menu items to display the icon in Android 4.0?
You can't add text under the default menu icon in the 4.0 Action bar, you do however have two alternatives
1) You can create your own icon that includes the text 'Menu' (Unfavourable)
2) Create a custom menu item with the dots image and the properties so that the text appears next to it.
android:showAsAction="always|withText"
Take a look at The Android SDK Documentation on Action Bar to see how to create custom items and make them perform tasks.