how to align menu items horizontally [duplicate]

Answer 1

You can use app:actionLayout="@layout/layout_name" property of item tag like

and your layout_name is any layout file like

// add your horizontal menu item here

and you can access this item

 @Override 
  public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) 
   {
    MenuItem item = menu.findItem(R.id.menu_id);
    Linearlayout rootView = (LinearLayout)item.getActionView();
    YourControlClass control = (YourControlClass) 
    rootView.findViewById(R.id.control_id); 
    return true; 
    }