I am developing on a Galaxy Nexus, and I would like the settings icon on the main dock to open up some window of buttons. How do I go about handling this button press? it's that button that looks like a vertical "..."
That button:
will only appear on devices without a MENU button
will only appear if you have action bar items in the overflow menu
cannot be directly used for other purposes
You are welcome to have an action item in the action bar that will "open up some window of buttons". You can choose whatever icon you want for this action item. I strongly encourage you to not use the same icon as the action overflow menu. There are millions of possible icons, so surely you can choose one of greater relevance to whatever the "window of buttons" is and will not conflict with the users' expectations of what the action bar overflow should look and work like.
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I'm developing an android app which doesn't have an action bar. I have the sign out and sync options as menu items. When I tried this in my Nexus 5, the menu button is nowhere to be found. It usually appears in the action bar. Is there a way to keep the menu button and hide the action bar at the same time?
Is there a way to keep the menu button and hide the action bar at the same time?
No. If you are not going to use the action bar, you cannot reliably use <menu> resources. Please put "sign out and sync options" in your own GUI, such as via buttons.
Note that the MENU key is itself deprecated now; few devices going forward will have one.
I am trying to set image in overflow menu items like as in flipkart.But I am unable to set image.Can anybody provide me code snippet for doing this
If you are trying on Android 3.0+, it won't show icons in the menu items. Google has removed them in order to make the menu look similar on different apps. See icon in menu not showing in android and on Android Developers blog.
It is not possible to add icons in overflow menu item as per googles new change, If u still want, try this.
for device with overflow hardware button:
override hardware button click and show a transparent fragment with list view as like over flow menu in samsung devices(S3, s4) with icon.
for devices without hardware button:
use sub menu to look as menu. google still supports icon in sub menu.
That's how it's supposed to work.
If the icon shows in the action bar, it will only show the icon (with an optional title by using android:showAsAction="always|withText" or android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText").
If the icon does not show in the action bar, it will only show in the overflow menu as text. Note that there is no "withIcon" enum value for the android:showAsAction attribute.
I want to move the overflow button (that shows up the options menu) actually present in the top action bar to the bottom action bar. As actually done by Facebook application and many other applications. I want this for tablet only.
Screenshot:
Thanks.
First, neither of those screenshots show a "bottom action bar". They show the navigation bar.
Second, whatever is shown in your second screenshot is non-standard.
My guess is that second screenshot is supposed to be the legacy menu affordance. The objective of a modern Android app developer is to not show the legacy menu affordance, as it is an indication to users that your app is not being maintained. Modern Android apps have the overflow menu in the action bar (for devices without a dedicated MENU button).
That being said, if you wish to have fewer users, and therefore want to suggest to those users that your app is unmaintained, to have the legacy menu affordance, get rid of your action bar, such as by setting android:targetSdkVersion to 11 or lower.
You can read more about this in the documentation.
I was reading this article, and was surprised to read that:
You might notice only 2 of the 3 original menu items are displayed in
the new action bar [...]. To get the other menu items, you must go to
the "overflow menu".
The reason why I'm surprised is that when I do the same thing using an emulated Nexus (ie: no menu button) running on Android 4.1.2, then the overflow button does not appear in the menu, but directly in the action bar.
Any idea why the behavior is different ?
Note: in my AndroidManifest.xml, I'm using minSdkVersion="11"
The button which appears in the naviagation bar for devices which lack physical buttons isn't the overflow button; it's the legacy menu button. The behavior you are seeing is the correct, expected behavior.
i'm pretty confused on how to use action bar sherlock.. i've 'installed' it successfully in my apps (I can already see the bar at the top of my apps), but how do I 'configure' it? for example i use this
<item name="abDisplayOptions">useLogo|showHome|homeAsUp|showTitle</item>
so I can see the apps logo in the action bar, the 'back' button at the left side of the logo, but I don't know where should I put the code (and what code to write) to enable the 'back' buttons on action bar, clicking on logo will bring the user to the apps home, and other things such as put a search icon on the action bar and so on.. i tried looking at the actionbarsherlock google groups but I don't know what to search to help me...
Just check the samples here : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.actionbarsherlock.sample.demos
And the corresponding code here : https://github.com/JakeWharton/ActionBarSherlock