I want to get an item to only show text on the optionsMenu in the action bar.
Here is my code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#+id/select_recipients_return_to_compose"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:title="Finish"/>
</menu>
Things I've tried:
1) True on onCreateOptionsMenu:
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.create_broadcast_options_menu, menu);
optionsMenu = menu;
MenuItem menuItem = menu.getItem(0);
menuItem.setEnabled(false);
// check if our roles recipients are chcked and if
Cursor cursor3 = getCheckedRecipients();
// actually, just checked if they're ticked.
if (cursor3 == null || cursor3.getCount() == 0) {
menuItem.setVisible(false);
} else {
menuItem.setVisible(true);
menuItem.setEnabled(true);
}
return true;
}
2) Setting the text manually
Anything else?
Right now it will show my home icon as the icon but will respond to clicks and behavior I set on onOptionsItemSelected().
android:showAsAction="withText|always"
forces the menuItem to the be a action of your actionbar.
if you want it to be in the overflow use
android:showAsAction="withText|never"
I saw many posts in SO but couldn't figure out why Overflow icon is not displayed. I am testing on real device Android 4.4 . I get the items displayed on bottom of the screen when options button is pressed . But I need it to appear as 3 dot menu on Top Right like in Gmail App. Pl help. Need something like attached pic of Tubemate app when options button clicked.
Menu.xml
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<!--xmlns:com.app.MainActivity="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"-->
<item
android:id="#+id/action_search"
android:actionViewClass="android.widget.SearchView"
android:icon="#drawable/icon_search"
android:orderInCategory="1"
android:title="search"
android:showAsAction="never"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_end"
android:icon="#drawable/end"
android:menuCategory="container"
android:orderInCategory="2"
android:title="#string/end"
android:showAsAction="never"/>
</menu>
MainActivity:
#Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{ menu.clear();
this.menu = menu;
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
}
#Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
switch (item.getItemId()) {
case R.id.action_end:
System.exit(0);
break;
case R.id.action_search:
break;
default:
break;
}
return false;
}
Overflow menu will only appear on devices that don't have physical menu button. In devices with physical menu button it will appear from bottom.
To force overflow menu, put this code inside onCreate:
try {
ViewConfiguration config = ViewConfiguration.get(this);
Field menuKeyField = ViewConfiguration.class
.getDeclaredField("sHasPermanentMenuKey");
if (menuKeyField != null) {
menuKeyField.setAccessible(true);
menuKeyField.setBoolean(config, false);
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Source
I want to change the Settings logo to a Search logo. I tried doing the following changes in the xml but it doesn't seem to work. Can anyone suggest me what to do?
My xml is as follows:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="#+id/action_settings"
android:orderInCategory="100"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:icon="#android:drawable/btn_minus"
android:title="#android:string/search_go"/>
</menu>
1) Go to : https://developer.android.com/design/downloads/index.html
2) Download "Action Bar Icon Pack"
3) Put ic_action_search in your drawable directory
4) Then : android:icon="#drawable/ic_action_search"
if it doesn't work try : your_app_name:showAsAction="always"
As you can read in the documentation :
Notice that the showAsAction attribute above uses a custom namespace
defined in the tag. This is necessary when using any XML
attributes defined by the support library, because these attributes do
not exist in the Android framework on older devices. So you must use
your own namespace as a prefix for all attributes defined by the
support library.
Use this if you ar using action bar
<item
android:id="#+id/grid_default_search"
android:icon="#android:drawable/ic_menu_search"
android:title="search"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:actionViewClass="android.widget.SearchView"
/>
<!-- other items or whatever -->
In your activity
#Override
public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
inflater.inflate(R.menu.grid_default, menu);
SearchView searchView = (SearchView)menu.findItem(R.id.grid_default_search).getActionView();
searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(queryListener);
}
final private OnQueryTextListener queryListener = new OnQueryTextListener() {
#Override
public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
//Logic
return false;
}
#Override
public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
//Logic
return false;
}
};
I'm a begginer in android development and I have a problem. My first menu has no separator lines in portreit and landscape modes. Also I've no separator in action bar in portreit mode while I have it in landscape one. Separator for action bar is a pic 1x32 placed at ./drawable. At the same time under AVDs and Android-x86 (VirtualBox) is fine. Please, see the fig1: .
Thanks in advance!
Update 1:
Create and show menu:
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.main_menu, menu);
return true;
}
#Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
// Handle item selection
switch (item.getItemId()) {
case R.id.main_menu_sync:
Toast("Refresh menu");
return true;
case R.id.main_menu_more:
Toast("More menu");
return true;
// ...
default:
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
}
Menu layout (./res/menu/main_menu.xml):
<item
android:id="#+id/main_menu_undo"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_undo"
android:title="Undo"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/main_menu_multiselect"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_multiselect"
android:title="Multiselect"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/main_menu_sync"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_refresh"
android:title="Sync"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/main_menu_more"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_more"
android:title="More">
<menu>
<item
android:id="#+id/main_menu_preferences"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_preferences"
android:title="Preferences"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/main_menu_tab_order"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_menu_tab_order"
android:title="Tab order"/>
</menu>
</item>
If your device is QVGA and you set the anyDensity attribute to false, some separators on the UI will be missing.
See more details at
http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html
I think your screen is supporting the view that you are using. You should add the support screen tag to your manifest.xml file. It works for me. Or may be you can check the following link to get some more info.
I have the following menu layout in my Android app:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="#+id/item1"
android:titleCondensed="Options"
android:title="Highlight Options"
android:icon="#android:drawable/ic_menu_preferences" />
<item android:id="#+id/item2"
android:titleCondensed="Persist"
android:title="Persist"
android:icon="#android:drawable/ic_menu_preferences"
android:checkable="true" />
</menu>
My problem is that the second menu item doesn't appear to be "checkable" when I run my app in the Android emulator. There should be a green tick about the item, right? To indicate that its checkable.
Am I doing something wrong?
Layout looks right. But you must check and uncheck menu item in code.
From the documentation:
When a checkable item is selected, the system calls your respective item-selected callback method (such as onOptionsItemSelected()). It is here that you must set the state of the checkbox, because a checkbox or radio button does not change its state automatically. You can query the current state of the item (as it was before the user selected it) with isChecked() and then set the checked state with setChecked().
Wrap the items in a group element, like this:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<group android:checkableBehavior="all">
<item android:id="#+id/item1"
android:titleCondensed="Options"
android:title="Highlight Options"
android:icon="#android:drawable/ic_menu_preferences">
</item>
<item android:id="#+id/item2"
android:titleCondensed="Persist"
android:title="Persist"
android:icon="#android:drawable/ic_menu_preferences"
android:checkable="true">
</item>
</group>
</menu>
From the Android docs:
The android:checkableBehavior attribute accepts either:
single - Only one item from the group can be checked (radio buttons)
all - All items can be checked (checkboxes)
none - No items are checkable
You can create a checkable menu item by setting the actionViewClass to a checkable widget like android.widget.CheckBox
res/menu/menu_with_checkable_menu_item.xml
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item
android:id="#+id/action_favorite"
android:checkable="true"
android:title="#string/action_favorite"
app:actionViewClass="android.widget.CheckBox"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText" />
</menu>
And you can can even style it to be a checkable star if you set actionLayout to a layout with a styled android.widget.CheckBox
res/layout
/action_layout_styled_checkbox.xml
<CheckBox xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
style="?android:attr/starStyle"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
res/menu/menu_with_checkable_star_menu_item.xml
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item
android:id="#+id/action_favorites"
android:checkable="true"
android:title="#string/action_favorites"
app:actionLayout="#layout/action_layout_styled_checkbox"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText" />
</menu>
To set the value
menuItem.setChecked(true/false);
To get the value
menuItem.isChecked()
Cast MenuItem to CheckBox
CheckBox checkBox= (CheckBox) menuItem.getActionView();
I've found that the best solution was to just use the onOptionsItemSelected() method as of my current API (27-28).
#Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item)
{
//Copy from here...
int itemId = item.getItemId();
if(item.isChecked())
{
if(R.id.edit_tile_checkbox == itemId) //Individual checkbox logic
{ /*TODO unchecked Action*/}
item.setChecked(false); //Toggles checkbox state.
}
else
{
if(R.id.edit_tile_checkbox == itemId) //Individual checkbox logic
{/*TODO checked Action*/}
item.setChecked(true); //Toggles checkbox state.
}
//...To here in to your onOptionsItemSelected() method, then make sure your variables are all sweet.
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
I spent way to long on here for this answer. and for whatever reason, the answers above didn't help (I'm a returning newbie I probably mucked something up I'm sure).
There could be a better way of doing this so helpful criticism is welcomed.
READ THIS
As has been said the "manual checking" is only the tip of the iceberg. It flashes the menu away so fast the users don't see anything happen and it is very counter intuitive, frustrating, and effectively utter crap. The REAL TASK (therefore) is allowing the check box event to be digested by the users mind.
Good news: this can be done and it does work and this is how you do it. #TouchBoarder had it best so I will copy his code. then develop it.
the idea is to detect if the checkbox is clicked, then (and only if that one is picked) slightly suppress the menu removal, add a timer for 500ms then close the menu, this give the "tick" animation of the checkbox time to run and creates the right "feel"
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item
android:id="#+id/action_favorite"
android:checkable="true"
android:title="#string/action_favorite"
app:actionViewClass="android.widget.CheckBox"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText" />
</menu>
then you make this method as usual, but you make sure you add all this extra bumpf
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the bottom bar and the top bar (weird)
BottomAppBar bottomBar = findViewById(R.id.bottom_app_bar_help);
Menu bottomMenu = bottomBar.getMenu();
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.bottom_nav_menu, bottomMenu);
for (int i = 0; i < bottomMenu.size(); i++) {
bottomMenu.getItem(i).setOnMenuItemClickListener(item -> {
if (item.getItemId()==R.id.action_favorite){
item.setChecked(!item.isChecked());
// Keep the popup menu open
item.setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_COLLAPSE_ACTION_VIEW);
item.setActionView(new View(frmMain.this));
item.setOnActionExpandListener(new MenuItem.OnActionExpandListener() {
#Override
public boolean onMenuItemActionExpand(MenuItem item) {
final Handler handler = new Handler();
handler.postDelayed(() -> bottomMenu.close(), 500);
return false;
}
#Override
public boolean onMenuItemActionCollapse(MenuItem item) {
final Handler handler = new Handler();
handler.postDelayed(() -> bottomMenu.close(), 500);
return false;
}
});
return false;
}
else {
return onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
});
}
return true;
}
the other menu events are here
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
// Bottom Bar item click
try {
switch (item.getItemId()) {
case R.id.mnuExit:
MenuClick(ClickType.LOGOUT);
return true;
case R.id.mnuList:
MenuClick(ClickType.LIST);
return true;
default:
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
Answering because the answers here seem long and convoluted.. I have some exact Kotlin code here
Override your activity at the top and override the function onMenuItemClick, Have a function to handle the button click to open the menu.
Have an array or list which holds the checked value and sets the check when the menu is re-created
Note: This code does not keep the menu open, It only ensures that checked items remain checked.
I noted there are lots of solutions to that on stack overflow, so have a look at them if that's what you desire
class exampleActivity : AppCompatActivity(), PopupMenu.OnMenuItemClickListener {
private var checkChecked = arrayListOf(false,false)
//some code
fun clickBTN(v: View){
val popup = PopupMenu(this,v)
popup.setOnMenuItemClickListener(this)
popup.inflate(R.menu.yourmenufilename)
//assuming you have 2 or more menu items
popup.menu[0].isChecked = checkChecked[0]
popup.menu[1].isChecked = checkChecked[1]
popup.show()
}
override fun onMenuItemClick(item: MenuItem?): Boolean {
when(item?.itemID){
R.id.item0 -> {
item.isChecked = !item.isChecked
checkChecked[0] = item.isChecked
return true
}
R.id.item1 -> {
item.isChecked = !item.isChecked
checkChecked[1] = item.isChecked
return true
}
}
}
of course in XML you should have your Button and Menu setup. An example menu is here
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="#+id/item0"
android:title="#string/hi"
android:checkable="true"/>
<item android:id="#+id/item1"
android:title="#string/yo"
android:checkable="true"/>
</menu>
This may be theme dependant but my menu didn't show a checkbox. I found this :
Note: Menu items in the Icon Menu cannot display a checkbox or radio
button. If you choose to make items in the Icon Menu checkable, then
you must personally indicate the state by swapping the icon and/or
text each time the state changes between on and off.
For Adding Menu items Programmatically,
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
menu.add("Item1").setActionView(R.layout.action_layout_checkbox).setCheckable(true);
return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}
res/layout /action_layout_checkbox.xml
<CheckBox xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
I have two items in the menu and set to checkable in menu.xml file like below
<item
android:id="#+id/A"
android:title="A"
app:showAsAction="never"
android:checkable="true"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/B"
android:title="B"
app:showAsAction="never"
android:checkable="true"/>
and logic for the menu checkboxes is below.
#Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(#NonNull MenuItem item) {
switch (item.getItemId()) {
case R.id.A:
//logic goes here
if(item.isChecked())
{
//logic is it is checked
item.setChecked(false);
}
else
{
//logic is it is not checked
item.setChecked(true);
}
return true;
case R.id.B:
//logic for second checkbox goes here
if(item.isChecked())
{
//logic is it is checked
item.setChecked(false);
}
else
{
//logic is it is not checked
item.setChecked(true);
}
return true;
default:
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}