I've implemented a contextual action bar. The menu being loaded and inflated in onCreateActionMode is defined as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:title="#string/call_context_menu_title">
<item android:id="#+id/menu_answer_call"
android:title="#string/answerCall"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
<group android:id="#+id/activeCallContextMenuItems">
<item android:id="#+id/menu_end_call"
android:title="#string/hangupCall"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"/>
<group android:id="#+id/multipleActiveCallsContextMenuItems">
<item android:id="#+id/menu_transfer_call"
android:title="#string/transferCall"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"/>
<item android:id="#+id/menu_conference_call"
android:title="#string/conferenceCall"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom"/>
</group>
</group>
</menu>
These items are shown when I click on an item in a ListView. When it is active, besides listing my 4 options, it puts a "Select Action" text before the first menu item. Is there any way to get Android to not show the "Select Action" hint? The menu items have self explanatory text so it is redundant (and even confusing if the hint is being cut off in the middle... e.g. on my S3 it says "Select..." and then I have my menu items)
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I have a class that extends FragmentActivity. No I want to show my menu items at the top of the screen like in actionbar. How can I do this ?
I have created the menu items and they are visible hen the hardware button for menu is pressesd but I want to sho them at the top of the screen.
Basically, this happens in devices with physical menu button. In devices without that button, all options are displayed in the action bar.
You can force a menu item to be displayed in the action bar by addind "showAlways" to the item that you want.
showAsAction=“always”
An small example
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item android:id="#+id/action_search"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_search"
android:title="#string/action_search"
android:showAsAction="always" />
<item android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:title="#string/action_settings"
android:showAsAction="always" />
</menu>
You must need to ensure that you have enough space for the menu items.
To ensure that I'll have enough space, I use to create a menu with only one item. Then, inside this item, I create another menu. This way, only one button is displayed and all items appear in a floating pop up menu. The main idea is below:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item android:id="#+id/overflow_item"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_overflow_icon"
android:title="#string/options"
android:showAsAction="always" />
<menu>
<item android:id="#+id/action_clear"
android:title="#string/clear"
android:showAsAction="always" />
</menu>
</menu>
I'm using topup sub-menu item by group in menu item. I have created group item menu as given below menu xml code.
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:cycle="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" >
<group>
<item
android:id="#+id/bookAppt"
android:icon="#drawable/addsomething_gray"
android:orderInCategory="1"
android:title="Book Appointment"
cycle:showAsAction="never"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/refreshAppt"
android:icon="#drawable/refresh_icon_dark"
android:orderInCategory="2"
android:title="Refresh"
cycle:showAsAction="never"/>
</group>
Every thing going perfect but submenu item icon not showing. Can anyone guide me regarding this issue.
Thanks
In your code change this cycle:showAsAction="never" to cycle:showAsAction="always".
replace cycle:showAsAction="never" with app:showAsAction="ifRoom|always"
Im working on action menu item and its over flow item this is my main_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/menu_search"
android:icon="#drawable/search"
android:title="#string/start_new_project"
app:showAsAction="always" />
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_dts_overflow"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_overflow_round"
android:orderInCategory="11111"
android:title="Service"
app:showAsAction="always">
<menu>
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_newProject"
android:icon="#drawable/newproject"
android:title="#string/start_new_project"
app:showAsAction="never" />
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_help"
android:icon="#drawable/help"
android:title="Service Tasks"
app:showAsAction="never" />
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_signOut"
android:icon="#drawable/signout"
android:title="#string/menusignout"
app:showAsAction="never" />
</menu>
</item>
I tried to construct a search item and a overflow item which you can see in the above code. I'm new to Action bar menu items so i tried to Google it and was able to make it work as I need.
In this I have to know one more thing.
1. What is orderInCategory with some numbers and what for it is used..?
android:orderInCategory is an integer attribute that dictates the order in which the menu items will appear within the menu when it is displayed.
<menu
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_item_first"
android:orderInCategory="1"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/string_one"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_item_second"
android:orderInCategory="2"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/string_two"/>
</menu>
Menu items in ToolBar are arranged from left to right (or
start to end in RTL mode) in the ascending order (i.e. 1,2,3 ->
left to right).
Menu Items in Overflow menu are arranged from top to bottom in
the ascending order (i.e. 1,2,3 -> top to bottom).
android:orderInCategory is actually useful in two ways.
1. For menu items in ActionBar.
Items will appear from left to right in ActionBar depending on the ascending order.
2. For menu items in overflow menu.
Overflow menu items will be displayed from top to bottom depending upon the ascending order you have specified.
android:orderInCategory Higher value, lower priority.
I have a Activity and a Fragment in it, both of them have option menu, and the item numbers are 1 and 3.
If I set android:orderInCategory=0, the activity menu are above the fragment menu, same effect before I set the value.
But if I set android:orderInCategory=1,the activity menu are below the fragment menu, and that is what I want.(I also test android:orderInCategory=5 tested too, still the same effect.)
I have an app with a NoActionBar theme. In my main activity I have an options menu that I created manually on the top of the screen (or by utilizing the built in device's options button).
In this main activity, I have a fragment with a listView where I apply the action mode long click functionality, to show the contextual action bar (CAB) for further user options.
Now, I try adding an options item to my CAB so it will contain some options like selecting all items in the listView, but since it's an item of the CAB, I can't really show the popup menu like in a regular activity. Further more, I want all the options menu callbacks (such as onOptionsItemSelected) to stay in the context of the CAB, in order to be able to continue to perform actions on the CAB.
Here's the code of my CAB:
<?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_delete"
android:orderInCategory="100"
app:showAsAction="always"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_delete"
android:title="Delete"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_overflow"
app:showAsAction="always"
android:orderInCategory="200"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_overflow"
android:title="Options"
android:visible="false"/>
</menu>
Apparently I missed the built in feature of the CAB - a built in overflow menu that collapses some of the actions' items once the screen is too small to show them all.
Another manipulation that needs to be done in order to always collapse certain actions under that overflow menu is to set for each one of them:
android:showAsAction="never"
app:showAsAction="never"
So, say we have 3 actions (delete, selece_all, add) in the CAB, and we want two of them (select_all, add) to be collapsed always under the built in overflow menu, we'll set this in the CAB's xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:mm="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item
android:id="#+id/action_delete"
android:orderInCategory="100"
mm:showAsAction="always"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_delete"
android:title="Delete"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_select"
android:orderInCategory="200"
android:showAsAction="never"
mm:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/select_all"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_add"
android:orderInCategory="300"
android:showAsAction="never"
mm:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/button_add"/>
I am working on Android ICS and using ActionBar with tabs
I have 4 item in my ActionBar.
Home logo
Spinner item 1
Spinner Item 2
Search Icon
the code is as follows of :
main_layout
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="#+id/menu_spinner_1"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:actionViewClass="android.widget.Spinner"/>
<item android:id="#+id/menu_spinner_2"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:actionViewClass="android.widget.Spinner" />
<item android:id="#+id/menu_search"
android:icon="#android:drawable/ic_menu_search"
android:title="Search"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:actionViewClass="android.widget.SearchView" />
</menu>
If I don't put "always" for the spinner, than only one spinner is shown.
and if I put always for both spinners, than on clicking the search icon..
the full ActionBar is not used for entering search query.
the Spinners remain as it is and the SearchView is very small only replacing the search icon.
How can I implement a full ActionBar search view and and when I click close the spinners must be displayed.! ?