how to align menu items horizontally [duplicate]

Answer 1

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

<item
android:id="@+id/menu_id"
android:title="@string/title"
 app:showAsAction="never"
app:actionLayout="@layout/layout_name"/>

and your layout_name is any layout file like

<LinearLayout 
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">

// add your horizontal menu item here

</LineearLayout>

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; 
    } 

Answer 2

you can also try with PopUp window this may help you check above codes

popup.xml layout file not menu,

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
              android:layout_width="wrap_content"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              android:orientation="vertical"
              android:background="@color/cardview_light_background"
              android:layout_margin="20dp">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_margin="5dp"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">

        //your images with horizontal

    </LinearLayout>

    <LinearLayout
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:layout_margin="5dp"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">

       // your vertical list view
    </LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

and you can Add the following code to the onClick() method:

LayoutInflater layoutInflater
                        = (LayoutInflater) context
                        .getSystemService(LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);

                final View popupView = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.popup, null);
                final PopupWindow popupWindow = new PopupWindow(
                        popupView,
                        ActionMenuView.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
                        ActionMenuView.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, true);

                popupWindow.setOutsideTouchable(true);
                popupWindow.setFocusable(true);


                popupWindow.setBackgroundDrawable(new BitmapDrawable());

                View parent = view.getRootView();

                popupWindow.showAtLocation(parent, Gravity.TOP|Gravity.END,0,0);