I am trying to implement ActionBarSherlock in my application and I need to show the menu at the top of my application, integrated in action bar. The problem is that it's not working properly. I am using it like this :
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
menu.add("Refresh")
.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_action_refresh)
.setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS);
menu.add("Settings")
.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_action_settings)
.setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS);
return true;
}
So the thing which I want to achieve is to show at the right side of my action bar a refresh icon and a menu icon, which should open the default menus when clicked. I checked ForcedOverflowItem example in ActionbarSherlock Demos, but it's not working as I want. I need to look the same as in Android 2.+ and in Android 4.+.
Any advices / helps / suggestions how can I get this to work?
You can do an xml file line this.
I saw this in some other post but I cannot track it rigth now.
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#+id/more"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:icon="#drawable/abs__ic_menu_moreoverflow_holo_dark">
<menu>
<item
android:id="#+id/remove"
android:showAsAction="withText|never"
android:title="#string/remove">
</item>
</menu>
</item>
</menu>
Then just inflate it like a normal menu.
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
getSupportMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.overlow, menu);
return true;
}
From what I read in ActionbarSherlock's documentation you cannot force the menu icon to appear in Android 4.+. When the device has a menu button the menu icon does not appear. I guess the guy who wrote ActionbarSherlock knows the subject matter well ;-)
Please read the dorjeduck's answer. If you want have same experience on all devices you have to add custom menu with his submenus. Here this the code sumple:
SubMenu sub = menu.addSubMenu("More");
sub.setIcon(R.drawable.abs__ic_menu_moreoverflow_holo_dark);
sub.add(0, MENU_SETTINGS, 0, "Settings");
Related
I thought I should ask a new question for this, but for some context I was able to get the label in position thanks to the good people at How to get a label in the Android action bar
.
So now that I've got that, I want the user to be able to tap the Administrator button and then change it to a different mode (probably just "Administrator", "User", "Guest" to start with but there may be more in the future).
How can I get a list of radio boxes to appear when the button in the top right is clicked? Ideally I want to be able to define those various modes dynamically from within the Java class so that if a new type gets added to the database it will be automatically picked up.
If anyone could point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it. I have seen a few examples from Googling, but unfortunately none of them involved the sort of customised drawable I'm using - and none of them had dynamically populated radio options either.
Thanks
You probably want to have a menu which contains your different items.
Do something like this to create the menu and inflate your xml:
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.my_menu, menu);
return true;
}
And then for handling the click events:
#Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
switch (item.getItemId()) {
case R.id.admin:
switchToAdminUI();
return true;
case R.id.guest:
switchToGuestUI();
return true;
default:
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
}
And your my_menu.xml could look something like this:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_overflow"
android:icon="#drawable/abs_ic_menu_moreoverflow_material"
android:showAsAction="always">
<menu>
<item
android:id="#+id/admin"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_admin"
android:title="#string/admin"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/guest"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_guest"
android:title="#string/guest"/>
</menu>
</item>
</menu>
You can see the android:showAsAction="always" above, which means that it will always show as an action bar icon, and then you put the sub menu items in there.
Try it out and you can also read more about menus here https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/menus.html
I followed this tutorial to create a menu
but my menu looks differently:
How can I create a menu with images?
This is my code:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="#+id/preferences"
android:icon="#drawable/preferences"
android:title="Preferences" />
<item android:id="#+id/help"
android:title="Help"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_search" />
</menu>
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
/*menu.add(Menu.NONE, PREF_ID, Menu.NONE, "Preferences")
.setIcon(R.drawable.preferences).setAlphabeticShortcut('e');
return (super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu));*/
MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.activity_ygo_main, menu);
return true;
}
First of all I want to say : Say Goodbye to the Menu Button
Your code have no problem, and it should be showing the icons if the drawables are there in correct folder,Working fine on Android 2.2.
The Menu features says :
1. Context menus: Do not support item shortcuts and item icons.
2. Options menus: The icon menus do not support item check marks and only show the item's condensed title. The expanded menus (only available if six or more menu items are visible, reached via the 'More' item in the icon menu) do not show item icons, and item check marks are discouraged.
3. Sub menus: Do not support item icons, or nested sub menus.
No problem with your code, Problem may be with the API level you are using, but still want to suggest that don't use Menu anymore.
Android no longer requires a dedicated Menu button, some devices don’t have one, and you should migrate away from using it.
If you use some following attribute in manifest file then it's will be show your icon....
<activity android:name=".ui.CategoryActivity"
android:label="#string/app_name"
**android:theme="#android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar"**></activity>
It's work fine for me...:)
**must be enter.
My application calls a web service on startup to see if the user is logged in. If they are logged in it needs to show a logout icon. If they aren't logged in, it needs to show a login icon. If their version of the application doesn't support logging in, it need to continue showing no icon.
How do I get the icon to show when the web service returns? I can't call invalidateOptionsMenu() because I'm using 2.3. Also, if I try to add it in onPrepareOptionsMenu() it shows up on the menu when you press the menu button instead of on the ActionBar.
I've done something similar this way:
In your action bar menu, have both the log in and log out items already there (I would advise putting them in an xml instead of creating it in the code so you can easily assign the items an id). Then just hold a reference to your menu when you create it so you can modify it later.
Menu myActionBarMenu;
/**
* Creates action bar items.
*/
#Override
public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
inflater.inflate(R.menu.menuNameHere, menu);
myActionBarMenu = menu;
}
Then, when you find out the user is logged in, set the visibility of the log in item to false like this:
myActionBarMenu.findItem(R.id.logInAction).setVisible(false);
myActionBarMenu.findItem(R.id.logOutAction).setVisible(true);
reverse the visibility in the case the user is logged out.
This would be what your xml menu would look like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#+id/logInAction"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
android:title="Log In"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/logOutAction"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
android:title="Log Out"/>
</menu>
I use this code to add menu items to the ActionBar:
/*************************************/
/* Create the actionbar options menu */
/*************************************/
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
menu.add("Settings")
.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_menu_moreoverflow_normal_holo_light)
.setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_IF_ROOM);
return true;
}
You should be able to add an if statement in there and change the icon accordingley
I am developing Android 2.1 API 7 project. In order to implement action bar, I use the ActionbarSherlock library.
I have successfully used the sherlock library in my project, the problem is that there is always the default text showing on the sherlock action bar which is my project name.
Even I have used menu layout file (res/menu/action_menu.xml):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="#+id/test"
android:title="#string/my_test"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"/>
</menu>
I also inflate above layout in my Activity onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu) method:
public class MyActivity extends FragmentActivity{
...
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.action_menu, menu);
return true;
}
}
But on the sherlock action bar, the (by default) project name and a android icon are still showing, and it shows on the left side of my custom menu layout item.
So, how to remove the sherlock library default layout and text(project name)??
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false)
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false)
The API is exactly that of the native ActionBar for future reference.
Instead of adding two lines, replacing the default logo by change the "icon.png" "header_logo.png" in drawable
I'm using the standard onCreateOptionsMenu, but on my Nexus w/ICS, when I tap the vertical menu button in the upper right corner, the dropdown context menu is 3/4 off the screen. Basically, I only see the first 3-4 letters in each menu items text.
Any ideas? Maybe I didn't get that memo!! I dont want to setup an ActionBar. I'd think by default, this should work fine?!?
Again, its pretty much standard menu code for < 3.0 SDK.
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
if (!isPro()) {
// add menu for ad-free Banner (launches Market)
inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_pro, menu);
}
inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu, menu);
return true;
}
Using standard menu XML...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#+id/help"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_help"
android:title="#string/menu_help"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/email"
android:icon="#drawable/email"
android:title="#string/menu_email"/>
I cant really say why its cutting off on the top, but I added this to my manifest.xml.
android:theme="#android:style/Theme.Black"
This basically reverts the style back to 2.x menus and places the vertical "dots" on the bottom right.
I actually prefer this over the default compatibility because I still have my icon menus as opposed to plain text-only dropdown menus.
I'd still like to know why the "default" conversion of my menu is screwed up though if anyone can chime in I'll award the solution to that person! (=
You can try to add this to you manifest:
supports-screens android:anyDensity="true"