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Android Actionbar PopupMenu with Custom Item Layouts

I am working on an Android application where I have to design a menu which will populate from the action bar, like this:
I have tried my best but was not able to produce it using the Android controls.
The solutions I have tried are:
With Actionbar, add a menu item with a group with selectable="all", that produces the layout I need but when I click a checkbox for selecting it, the whole menu hides and selection is not done, moreover the menu icon in actionbar does not have the bottom right white arrow.
Tried creating a custom ActionProvider and added the menu items using class's OnPrepareSubMenu method but had the same issue.
I just need a push in the right direction and I can do the rest, suggestions are more than welcome.
Thank you :)

Use popupWindow.
In that you can make any custom layout and set it as content of your popupwindow and also you can specify an ANCHOR in your case it would be
R.id.your_menu_item
set a listener and listen the changes.

The best way to customize a action bar menu?

I'm new in android programming, I want to create the GUI of my app, when making that the action bar must be customized to looks like :
here i have "three" things:
the button shape in the non-clicking state.
the button shape in the clicking state.
the buttons separator shape.
while searching i found somethings like Android-actionbar and ActionBar-Sherlock and i'm also familiar with how to customize the action bar and how to add buttons imagess and change it upon clicking, NOW, i don't know if there's is possibility to achieve my work using any of these methods, OR IF NOT, what's the best way.

You should take a look at both these links.
PagerTabStrip
ViewPagerIndicator

Android: Create a Quick Action Menu

I need to create some type of quick action menu that appears to the right side of the clicked item (button) whenever the user clicks the button.
Here's an example of what I'm trying to achieve:
When the user clicks button1 I want the "sub quick action menu" to appear like it's shown in the image above.
Is there anyway to do this 'natively' in android?
I have found this plugin but it only allows you to show the menu from the top or bottom of the button.
https://github.com/lorensiuswlt/NewQuickAction3D

As tyczj said, you could achieve that with a PopupMenu. The idea is that the popup menu will inflate a custom view with all the elements, having as background a 9 patch image.
Here's a blog post that shows how to do that. Hope it will help you.

You can do the same using Quick Action Menu, for more details you can follow the
"http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/521455/Quick-action-pattern-in-Android-and-simple-impleme"
Link.
In example Items are presented in horizontal manner, whereas you can manage them, like listview as per your requirement.

there is a PopupMenu but there is no arrow or anything pointing to where it came from. Its basically the same thing that comes up when clicking the Overflow actionbar item

Maybe this link can help you ;) But instead of sliding use press button.
Making a slide menu

How to change actionbar like gmail

I would like to create a actionbar, let it like gmail's actionbar.
In other words,
When the item is selected in listView, actionbar's logo will change to the Cancel button.
Does this have to custom actionbar's layout?
or , it is not a actionbar ,it's a Contextual Menus?

thanks #Selvin and #CommonsWare
it's a context-menu, ListView or RecyclerView, and you can just call startActionMode() to start it (API 11 or later).
But in startActionMode(), it will not call onItemCheckedStateChanged,
you must implement a click listener from the adapter by yourself.

Show tab bar and listIn Actionbar at same time. (Android Honeycomb)

There is a situation in which I want to use Tab bar as well as List navigation, Both at same time in Action bar.
Documentation says 'we can put Actionbar in to list navigation mode or tabs navigation mode'.
Is there any way to use both at same time. Any pointers, help. Thank you in Advance.

Sorry, you can only have one or the other.
That being said, you can use android:actionLayout to convert an options menu item into a custom inflated layout in the action bar. You might be able to use the "tabs navigation mode" while putting your own Spinner to the right of the tabs this way. Personally, I would find this confusing as a user, but perhaps it will work for your use case.

a very late answer, but this is possible by a simple hack. You just have to replace (programatically) the view that is pointed by android.R.id.action_bar_title with a Spinner. I wrote a blog about it. Here's the link