Android, How to create option Menu

Question

Here I tried to make option menu, but menu is not displaying on screen, so please guide me where am I doing mistake...

MenuTest.java

public class Men         


        

Answer 1

Replace return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu); with return true; in your onCreateOptionsMenu method This will help

And you should also have the onCreate method in your activity

Answer 2

Change your onCreateOptionsMenu method to return true. To quote the docs:

You must return true for the menu to be displayed; if you return false it will not be shown.

Answer 3

IF your Device is running Android v.4.1.2 or before,
the menu is not displayed in the action-bar.
But it can be accessed through the Menu-(hardware)-Button.

Answer 4

you can create options menu like below:

Menu XML code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">

    <item
        android:id="@+id/Menu_AboutUs"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_about_us_over_black"
        android:title="About US"/>
    <item
        android:id="@+id/Menu_LogOutMenu"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_arrow_forward_black"
        android:title="Logout"/>
</menu>

How you can get the menu from MENU XML(Convert menu XML to java):

@Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.my_options_menu,menu);
        return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
    }

How to get Selected Item from Menu:

@Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(@NonNull MenuItem item) {
        switch (item.getItemId()){

            case R.id.Menu_AboutUs:
                //About US
                break;

            case R.id.Menu_LogOutMenu:
                //Do Logout
                break;
        }
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }

Answer 5

Android UI programming is a little bit tricky. To enable the Options menu, in addition to the code you wrote, we also need to call setHasOptionsMenu(true) in your overriden method OnCreate(). Hope this will help you out.

Answer 6

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    new MenuInflater(this).inflate(R.menu.folderview_options, menu);
    return (super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu));
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {

    if (item.getItemId() == R.id.locationListRefreshLocations) {
        Cursor temp = helper.getEmployee(active_employeeId);
        String[] matches = new String[1];
        if (temp.moveToFirst()) {
            matches[0] = helper.getEmployerID(temp);
        }
        temp.close();               
        startRosterReceiveBackgroundTask(matches);
    } else if (item.getItemId()==R.id.locationListPrefs) {
        startActivity(new Intent(this, PreferencesUnlockScreen.class));
        return true;
    }           
    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}