Is it possible to Implement Toggle Button in Action Menu Item using Actionbar sherlock in android

Question

I have an app, which have toggle button in action menu item, though i\'m using Actionbar Sherlock, I don\'t know, how to place the toggle button in the action menu item. I don\'

Answer 1

Other approach would be to use a custom layout for your ActionBar:

Basically you define a layout that contains your Toggle:

ALTERNATIVE 1: Then in your Activity or Fragment container you do:

ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
actionBar.setCustomView(R.layout.actionbar_top);
actionBar.setDisplayOptions(ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_HOME | ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM);
...
ToggleButton button = (ToggleButton) findViewById(R.id.actionbar_service_toggle);

Notice that you are having a real ToggleButton and you are handling it in code as a real object ToggleButton, which has lots of advantages compared to having you re-implement your own toggle (theme, reliability, views hierarchy, native support...).

Source code here.

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ALTERNATIVE 2: Another way to do it is embed your custom view into a regular menu view: