menu directory is missing

Question

I\'m a very new programmer in Android. I\'m trying to define an action overflow button in my app. From what I\'ve read it involves modifying the menu.xml file.

Answer 1

Sometime when you create a menu resource directory then also it won't appear in the Android project view but it actually there, Since if it doesn't contain any file then the project indexing automatically hides it so to see that you just need to change from Android to Project Source files like.

This answer may not be helpful to you but maybe for others who may experience the same type of problem.

Answer 2

Right click on res and you will android resource directory ->give directory name ->give resource type as menu : a menu folder will be created inside res, now right click on menu->new-> menu resource file->file name-> ok . Now you see the menu xml file inside res/menu/yourfile.xml

Answer 3

Right Click on the res in the Tools Window ->Select the Show in Explorer option. If you have already created a menu directory and if it is hidden(or not shown) in the Tools Window, you can find it here. If you have not created menu directory, you can use the the above answers to create it and add resource files to it.

Answer 4

just change the "android" to "project" in the top right-hand side of the android studio software.

Answer 5

You can create a menu dir in the res/ folder. Right click on res in the project view in Android Studio and click new -> "Android Resource Directory". Then select menu under "Resource Type". You can then add a file to that new res/menu directory that contains your menu items like this (res/menu/main_menu.xml)

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
    <item
        android:id="@+id/action"
        android:title="@string/action"
        app:showAsAction="always" />
</menu>

And get sure to override the onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) in the MainActivity class like this:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.main_menu,menu);
    return true;
}