How to change the position of menu items on actionbar

Question

I\'m developing one application in which I have to add a custom layout on actionbar. Adding the custom layout is done, but when I\'m adding the menu items on actionbar my custom

Answer 1

I assume you are setting your custom view as a custom view in the action bar. If you are using ActionbarSherlock you can instead add the custom view as a normal menu item and set an action view for it using .setActionView(yourCustomView or yourCustomLayoutId). You can then set .setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS) to display the view. Just make sure your custom view is set to width wrap_content or otherwise it will push the other menu items off the screen. This might also work without ActionbarSherlock, but I haven't tried it there yet.

EDIT: Try modifying your onCreateOptionsMenu method

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.websearch_menu, menu);

    // add this
    menu.add(Menu.NONE, 0, Menu.NONE, "custom")
        .setActionView(R.layout.header)
        .setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS);

    return true;
}

and remove this from your onCreate method

actionBar.setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true);
cView = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.header, null);
actionBar.setCustomView(cView);

EDIT:

If you need to reference the views from your custom layout, you can do this in your onCreateOptionsMenu method as follows (note: I wrote this code in the browser, so no guarantee that I didn't make a typo or something):

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

    // inflate the menu and add the item with id viewId,
    // which has your layout as actionview

    View actionView = menu.getItem(viewId).getActionView();
    View viewFromMyLayout = actionView.findViewById(R.id.viewFromMyLayout);

    // here you can set listeners to your view or store a reference 
    // to it somewhere, so you can use it later

    return true;
}