I was having the same problem trying to go around this openOptionsMenu thing on an app that I was doing that should run on Android 1.6 and up. Following the answer from Werner Van Belle I reached the conclusion that we could achieve a workaround to solve the problem. So I came up with the … Read more
Can somebody please provide a link to download the overflow menu icon? http://developer.android.com Once you have downloaded the SDK, you will find your images in: $ANDROID_SDK/platforms/$PLATFORM/data/res/$DRAWABLE/ic_menu_moreoverflow* where: $ANDROID_SDK is wherever you installed your SDK $PLATFORM is some platform directory (e.g., android-17) $DRAWABLE is some major drawable directory (e.g., drawable-hdpi) There are different versions of the … Read more
You can’t have custom views for your overflow menu items, so Chrome is not using the standard action bar. It’s weird that Google doesn’t even use its own standard tools that it pushes for everyone else to use, but that’s just how it goes. If you load up an app that uses the real standard … Read more
To overlap only, use this approach: PopupMenu popupMenu = new PopupMenu(getContext(), this, Gravity.NO_GRAVITY, R.attr.actionOverflowMenuStyle, 0); To get a PopupMenu with a bright background and a detailed control over the offsets use this approach: styles.xml <style name=”PopupMenuOverlapAnchor” parent=”@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light”> <item name=”android:overlapAnchor”>true</item> <item name=”android:dropDownVerticalOffset”>0dp</item> <item name=”android:dropDownHorizontalOffset”>0dp</item> </style> Code: ContextThemeWrapper contextThemeWrapper = new ContextThemeWrapper(getContext(), R.style.PopupMenuOverlapAnchor); PopupMenu popupMenu = new … Read more
Try app:actionLayout=”@layout/check” instead of android:actionLayout=”@layout/check”. If you’re using ActionbarSherlock or AppCompat, the android: namespace will not work for MenuItems. This is because these libraries use custom attributes that mimic the Android APIs since they did not exist in earlier versions of the framework.
You can’t use findViewById() on menu items in onCreate() because the menu layout isn’t inflated yet. You could create a global Menu variable and initialize it in the onCreateOptionsMenu() and then use it in your onClick(). private Menu menu; In your onCreateOptionsMenu() this.menu = menu; In your button’s onClick() method menu.getItem(0).setIcon(ContextCompat.getDrawable(this, R.drawable.ic_launcher));
If you are building with Eclipse, make sure your project’s build target is set to Honeycomb too.
Things you should always check when you want to use action bar are 1) Extend ActionBarActivity instead of Activity public class MainMenu extends ActionBarActivity{ 2) Have the right style selected as defined at manifest Manifest <application android:icon=”@drawable/ic_launcher” android:label=”@string/app_name” android:theme=”@style/AppTheme” > Style <style name=”AppTheme” parent=”Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar”> </style> 3) Select the right title for showAsAction <menu xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” xmlns:**yourapp**=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto” … Read more
invalidateOptionsMenu() is used to say Android, that contents of menu have changed, and menu should be redrawn. For example, you click a button which adds another menu item at runtime, or hides menu items group. In this case you should call invalidateOptionsMenu(), so that the system could redraw it on UI. This method is a … Read more
Try something like this : <style name=”ThemeName” parent=”@style/Theme.Sherlock.Light”> <item name=”actionMenuTextColor”>@color/white</item> <item name=”android:actionMenuTextColor”>@color/white</item> </style>