I want to differentiate the groups by giving them a title or divider, but I can't find a title option for the group element.
Is there a way to add a title or divider?
<group android:id="#+id/menu_group_sort" >
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_sort_relevance"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/sort_relevance"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_sort_rating"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/sort_rating"/>
</group>
I use this code for my project, take a look:
<item
android:title="Search Option"
android:id="#+id/menu_search_option"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText">
<menu>
<group>
<item
android:id="#+id/menuSearchFilmEpisode"
android:title="Episode"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/menuSearchActor"
android:title="Actor"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/menuSearchDirector"
android:title="Director"/>
</group>
</menu>
</item>
And the result is that i have a group with text as icon on my action bar. Hope it helps.
Perhaps two years too late, but thought it might be useful for whoever stumbles upon this problem...
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<group
android:id="#+id/group_one">
<item android:title="Group Title">
<menu>
<item
android:id="#+id/group_item_one"
android:title="Item one"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/group_item_two"
android:title="Item two"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/group_item_three"
android:title="Item three"/>
</menu>
</item>
</group>
<group
android:id="#+id/group_two">
<item
android:id="#+id/group_two_item_one"
android:title="Item one"/>
</group>
Although that might not be the best approach, I believe it might help you out.
What about you add extra disabled itens as "titles" inside the groups, also you could create a style for those itens so they might show the color you want.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<group>
<item
android:title="menu1"
android:enabled="false"
android:checkable="false">
</item>
<item
android:title="opt1">
</item>
<item
android:title="opt2">
</item>
<item
android:title="opt3">
</item>
</group>
<group>
<item
android:title="menu2"
android:enabled="false"
android:checkable="false">
</item>
<item
android:title="opt4">
</item>
<item
android:title="opt5">
</item>
</group>
</menu>
You also can try something like that, using java.
#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);
menu.addSubMenu(Menu.NONE, 1, 1, "SubMenu");
menu.add(1, 2, 2, "Item");
menu.add(1, 3, 3, "Item");
menu.addSubMenu(Menu.NONE, Menu.NONE, 4, "SubMenu");
menu.add(4, 5, 5, "Item");
menu.add(4, 6, 6, "Item");
menu.add(4, 7, 7, "Item");
return true;
}
Parameters
groupId
The group identifier that this item should be part of. This can also be used to define groups of items for batch state changes. Normally use NONE if an item should not be in a group.
itemId
Unique item ID. Use NONE if you do not need a unique ID.
order
The order for the item. Use NONE if you do not care about the order. See getOrder().
title
The text to display for the item.
Yet, I believe both should have the same result.
I hope it help you.
As we all know, an item-node can has title, and an item-node can be the child of menu-node, further more a menu-node can be a child of item-node, and a group-node can be a child of a menu-node.
so all we need to do is keep the group inside the hierarchy of rootMenu-itemWithTitle-menu.
like this, is is used as a NavigationView menus:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
tools:context=".activity.MainActivity">`
<item android:title="#string/drawer_group_book">
<menu>
<group android:id="#+id/nav_group_book"
android:checkableBehavior="single">
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_book_in_stock"
android:icon="#drawable/vector_in_stock"
android:title="#string/drawer_menu_in_stock"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_book_wish_list"
android:icon="#drawable/vector_wish"
android:title="#string/drawer_menu_wish_list"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_book_lent_out"
android:icon="#drawable/vector_out"
android:title="#string/drawer_menu_lent_out"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_book_borrowed"
android:icon="#drawable/vector_in"
android:title="#string/drawer_menu_borrowed"/>
</group>
</menu>
</item>
<item android:title="Communicate">
<menu>
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_share"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_share"
android:title="Share"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_send"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_send"
android:title="Send"/>
</menu>
</item>
</menu>
Just give a unique id to each group. It will create a separator automatically.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<group
android:id="#+id/group_items"
android:checkableBehavior="single">
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_profile"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_profile"
android:title="#string/title_profile" />
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_notifications"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_notifcation"
android:title="#string/title_notifications" />
</group>
<group
android:id="#+id/group_settings"
android:checkableBehavior="single">
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_privacy_policy"
android:title="#string/privacy_policy" />
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_about_us"
android:title="#string/nav_about_us" />
</group>
This might be a little late, but for whom it might help, The below menu code adds title to a menu group and below it 2 checkable options to choose from.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<group
android:id="#+id/gp_hour_view"
android:checkableBehavior="single">
<item
android:checkable="false"
android:title="Display">
<menu>
<group
android:id="#+id/gp_hour_sel"
android:checkableBehavior="single">
<item
android:id="#+id/action_pinched_view"
android:checked="true"
android:orderInCategory="201"
android:title="Pinched"
app:showAsAction="never" />
<item
android:id="#+id/action_zoomed_view"
android:orderInCategory="201"
android:title="Zoomed"
app:showAsAction="never" />
</group>
</menu>
</item>
</group>
</menu>
This is my idea:
<menu>
<group>
<item android:title="grouptitle"/>
<item android:title="item1" android:id="#id+/item1"/>
</group>
</menu>
To have a title in each group within your menu, you can create a disabled item that acts as a title. This way it will not be clickable and will have a different color from the elements in your group. Also, in order to make the difference between selectable and non-selectable items more evident, you can add an icon only to the title item of the group.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
tools:showIn="navigation_view">
<group
android:id="#+id/group1"
android:checkableBehavior="single">
<item
android:title="Title 1"
android:enabled="false"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_star" />
<item
android:title="#string/menu_home" />
<item
android:title="#string/menu_home" />
<item
android:title="#string/menu_home" />
</group>
<group
android:id="#+id/group2"
android:checkableBehavior="single">
<item
android:title="Title 2"
android:enabled="false"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_star" />
<item
android:title="#string/menu_home" />
<item
android:title="#string/menu_home" />
<item
android:title="#string/menu_home" />
</group>
</menu>
Related
I have made a navigation drawer using this drawer_menu.xml, the codes are :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
tools:showIn="navigation_view">
<group android:checkableBehavior="single">
<item
android:id="#+id/home"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_home"
android:title="Home"></item>
<item
android:id="#+id/profile"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_profil"
android:title="Profile"></item>
</group>
<item android:title="Communicate">
<menu>
<item
android:id="#+id/message"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_message"
android:title="Message"></item>
<item
android:id="#+id/share"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_share"
android:title="Share"></item>
</menu>
</item>
</menu>
However, when I clicked the message menu item which is in sub-category, it's not marked instead it's only marked the item which isn't in sub-category. like the following :
click to see the image
I would be glad if someone could help this :) thank you.
As you have , 3 items with 3rd items(communicate) will have sub items , so you need to add <group android:checkableBehavior="single"> under that sub-item ,also you have close your tag with 2 items only(home,profile) ,you didn't include 3rd item .try closing it at end ,like i have done in below code :
<group android:checkableBehavior="single">
<item
android:id="#+id/home"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_home"
android:title="Home"></item>
<item
android:id="#+id/profile"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_profil"
android:title="Profile"></item>
<item android:title="Communicate">
<menu>
<group android:checkableBehavior="single">//selecting one item from group
<item
android:id="#+id/message"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_message"
android:title="Message"></item>
<item
android:id="#+id/share"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_share"
android:title="Share"></item>
</group>
</menu>
</item>
</group>//add this
I want to add the title of the group of items of the submenu. I don't want to use the submenus which are hidden and open on its click, I want to implement a title of the group of menu items. So now my menu looks like this:
But I want to implement it like this:
Now my XML seems like this, but it's using a nested submenus:
<?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"
>
<group
android:id="#+id/group_1"
android:checkableBehavior="single"
>
<item
android:id="#+id/apps_sort_title"
android:title="#string/apps_sort_title"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom"
/>
<item
android:id="#+id/apps_sort_date"
android:title="#string/apps_sort_date"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom"
/>
<item
android:id="#+id/apps_sort_size"
android:title="#string/apps_sort_size"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom"
/>
</group>
<item android:title="#string/title_order">
<menu>
<group
android:id="#+id/group_2"
android:checkableBehavior="single"
>
<item
android:id="#+id/apps_sort_asc"
android:title="#string/sort_asc"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom"
/>
<item
android:id="#+id/apps_sort_desc"
android:title="#string/sort_desc"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom"
/>
</group>
</menu>
</item>
</menu>
Thanks in advance!
Set the tittle on group, you have to implement your menu XML like this.
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<group
android:id="#+id/gp1"
android:checkableBehavior="single"
android:visible="true">
<item android:title="Group Title">
<menu>
<item
android:id="#+id/group_item_one"
android:title="Item one"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/group_item_two"
android:title="Item two"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/group_item_three"
android:title="Item three"/>
</menu>
</item>
</group>
<group
android:id="#+id/gp2"
android:checkableBehavior="single">
<item
android:id="#+id/group_two_item_one"
android:title="Item one"/>
</group>
Finally found the solution I needed to use the setGroupVisible() method of the menu object passed into the onPrepareOptionsMenu() method.
menu.setGroupVisible(R.id.gp1, false);
Happy coding!!
I have the following menu ressource file (generated with androids Navigation Drawer Activity) and customized by me:
<group android:checkableBehavior="single">
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_home"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_home_black_24dp"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_users"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_camera" />
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_following"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_people_black_24dp" />
</group>
<item android:title="Foo">
<menu>
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_logout"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_exit_to_app_black_24dp" />
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_licences"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_assignment_black_24dp" />
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_about"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_info_black_24dp" />
</menu>
</item>
Setting the first level items works as expected:
navigationView.setCheckedItem(R.id.nav_home);
But setting a child menu item as checked, doesn't do anything.
navigationView.setCheckedItem(R.id.nav_about);
Any idea?
The problem was the generated layout by Android Studio. To check child items, I had to adjust the layout like this:
<group android:checkableBehavior="single">
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_home"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_home_black_24dp"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_users"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_camera" />
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_following"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_people_black_24dp" />
</group>
<item android:title="Foo">
<menu>
<group android:checkableBehavior="single">
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_logout"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_exit_to_app_black_24dp" />
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_licences"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_assignment_black_24dp" />
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_about"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_info_black_24dp" />
</group>
</menu>
</item>
Its because they are not under group tag , and they dont have property of android:checkableBehavior="single" .
Modify you code as
<item android:title="Foo">
<menu>
<group android:checkableBehavior="single">
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_logout"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_exit_to_app_black_24dp" />
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_licences"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_assignment_black_24dp" />
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_about"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_info_black_24dp" />
</group>
</menu>
Hope this helps.
If you are trying to select an Item of the Navigation drawer in the onCreate Method or anywhere else in your application, you can use the code below:
navigationView.getMenu().getItem(0).setChecked(true);
The getItem(int index) method gets the MenuItem then you can call the setChecked(true);on that MenuItem, all you are left to do is to find out which element index does the default have, and replace the 0 with that index.
You can select(highlight) the item by calling
onNavigationItemSelected(navigationView.getMenu().getItem(0));
You can refer to this as well :
NavigationView with DrawerLayout setCheckedItem not working
Also you can add the menu as:
<group
android:checkableBehavior="single">
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_home"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_home_black_24dp"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_users"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_camera" />
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_following"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_people_black_24dp" />
</group>
<group
android:checkableBehavior="single">
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_logout"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_exit_to_app_black_24dp" />
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_licences"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_assignment_black_24dp" />
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_about"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_info_black_24dp" />
</group>
Try this solution...
Use two line code, one is for checked Item of navigation drawer and second is for selection of item of sub-menu.
navigationView.setCheckedItem(R.id.nav_about);
onNavigationItemSelected(navigationView.getMenu().getItem(3).getSubMenu().getItem(2));
If you are creating your menu programatically you will have to do something similar to #Abdul Kawee's answer
Menu.setGroupCheckable(...)
I have a NavigationView in my app. Inside the menu for the NavView, I have two sub menus:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_group_one"
android:title="SubMenu A">
<menu>
<item
android:checkable="true"
android:title="One"/>
<item
android:checkable="true"
android:title="Two"/>
</menu>
</item>
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_group_two"
android:title="SubMenu B">
<menu>
<item
android:checkable="true"
android:title="Three"/>
<item
android:checkable="true"
android:title="Four"/>
</menu>
</item>
</menu>
In my activity's onNavigationItemSelected() I would like to be able to figure out which sub menu the selected item is in. How would I do this?
So far I haven't found an existing solution at this time, however I have found a workaround:
To solve this with minimal additional XML overhead, wrap each set of sub-menu items in a group, with an Id:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_group_one"
android:title="SubMenu A">
<menu>
<group id="#+id/nav_group_wrapper_one">
<item
android:checkable="true"
android:title="One"/>
<item
android:checkable="true"
android:title="Two"/>
</group>
</menu>
</item>
<item
android:id="#+id/nav_group_two"
android:title="SubMenu B">
<menu>
<group id="#+id/nav_group_wrapper_two">
<item
android:checkable="true"
android:title="Three"/>
<item
android:checkable="true"
android:title="Four"/>
</group>
</menu>
</item>
</menu>
This way, one can simply call item.getGroupId() to infer the sub-menu it is contained within.
Inside my NavigationView menu I have these items. There are some items with heading which is having some issues I think because when I used android:checkableBehavior it's not affected or doesn't show that it's selected or being highlighted. The items highlighted are only the nav1, nav2, nav3 items on the menu for the Drawer Layout. What I wanted to achieve is when the user clicks on the items with some headings on it like the nav4, or nav5 item It should get highlighted when selected.
<group android:checkableBehavior="single">
<item android:id="#+id/nav_1" android:icon="#drawable/ic_1"
android:title="#string/nav1" />
<item android:id="#+id/nav_2" android:icon="#drawable/ic_2"
android:title="#string/nav2" />
<item android:id="#+id/nav_3" android:icon="#drawable/ic_3"
android:title="#string/nav3" />
<item android:title="#string/heading1">
<menu >
<item android:id="#+id/nav_4" android:icon="#drawable/ic_4"
android:title="#string/nav4"/>
<item android:id="#+id/nav_5" android:icon="#drawable/ic_5"
android:title="#string/nav5" />
</menu>
</item>
</group>
if you want nav4 and nav5 to get highlighted too change to this:
<group android:checkableBehavior="single">
<item android:id="#+id/nav_1" android:icon="#drawable/ic_1"
android:title="#string/nav1" />
<item android:id="#+id/nav_2" android:icon="#drawable/ic_2"
android:title="#string/nav2" />
<item android:id="#+id/nav_3" android:icon="#drawable/ic_3"
android:title="#string/nav3" />
<item android:title="#string/heading1">
<menu >
<group android:checkableBehavior="single">
<item android:id="#+id/nav_4" android:icon="#drawable/ic_4"
android:title="#string/nav4"/>
<item android:id="#+id/nav_5" android:icon="#drawable/ic_5"
android:title="#string/nav5" />
</group>
</menu>
</item>
</group>