How to set menu to Toolbar in Android

Question

I want use ToolBar instead of ActionBar, but don\'t show me menu in toolbar!!! i want set menu such as Refresh or Setting<

Answer 1

You need to override this code in your Activity:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate the menu, this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main2, menu);
    return true;
}

and set your toolbar like this:

Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

Answer 2

You can still use the answer provided using Toolbar.inflateMenu even while using setSupportActionBar(toolbar).

I had a scenario where I had to move toolbar setup functionality into a separate class outside of activity which didn't by-itself know of the event onCreateOptionsMenu.

So, to implement this, all I had to do was wait for Toolbar to be drawn before calling inflateMenu by doing the following:

toolbar.post {
    toolbar.inflateMenu(R.menu.my_menu)
}

Might not be considered very clean but still gets the job done.

Answer 3

You can achieve this by two methods

1. Using XML
2. Using java

Using XML Add this attribute to toolbar XML app:menu = "menu_name"

Using java By overriding onCreateOptionMenu(Menu menu)

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity { 

  private Toolbar toolbar;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        toolbar = findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
}
@Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.demo_menu,menu);
        return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
    }
}

for more details or implementating click on the menu go through this article https://bedevelopers.tech/android-toolbar-implementation-using-android-studio/

Answer 4

Don't use setSupportActionBar(toolbar)

I don't know why but this works for me.

toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.main_toolbar);
toolbar.setSubtitle("Test Subtitle");
toolbar.inflateMenu(R.menu.main_manu);

For menu item click do this

toolbar.setOnMenuItemClickListener(new Toolbar.OnMenuItemClickListener() {

        @Override
        public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) {

            if(item.getItemId()==R.id.item1)
            {
                // do something
            }
            else if(item.getItemId()== R.id.filter)
            {
               // do something
            }
            else{
               // do something
            }

            return false;
        }
    });

Will update the 'why' part of this answer when I find a proper explanation.
Happy to help anyway :) Peace.

Answer 5

Also you need this, to implement some action to every options of menu.

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case R.id.menu_help:
            Toast.makeText(this, "This is teh option help", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            break;
        default:
            break;
    }
    return true;
}

Answer 6

In my case, I'm using an AppBarLayout with a CollapsingToolbarLayout and the menu was always being scrolled out of the screen, I solved my problem by switching android:actionLayout in menu's XML to the toolbar's id. I hope it can help people in the same situation!

activity_main.xml

<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:fab="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".activities.MainScreenActivity"
    android:screenOrientation="portrait">

    <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="300dp"
        app:elevation="0dp"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">
        <android.support.design.widget.CollapsingToolbarLayout
            android:id="@+id/collapsingBar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            app:layout_scrollFlags="exitUntilCollapsed|scroll"
            app:contentScrim="?attr/colorPrimary"
            app:expandedTitleMarginStart="48dp"
            app:expandedTitleMarginEnd="48dp"
            >
            <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
                android:id="@+id/toolbar"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
                android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
                app:elevation="0dp"
                app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay"
                app:layout_collapseMode="pin"/>
        </android.support.design.widget.CollapsingToolbarLayout>


    </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>
</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

main_menu.xml

<?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/logoutMenu"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:title="@string/log_out"
        app:showAsAction="never"
        android:actionLayout="@id/toolbar"/>
    <item
        android:id="@+id/sortMenu"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:title="@string/sort"
        app:showAsAction="never"/> </menu>