overflow-menu

Background I'm working on adding some material design style for an app, so I've chosen a different color for the action bar and status bar. The problem For this, the theme of the app is of "Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar", and added this to hide the action bar as I need to handle it as a toolbar: theme I've used: <style name="AppTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar"> <item name="windowActionBar">false</item> <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item> <item name="windowActionModeOverlay">true</item> </style> layout I've used : <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas

I'm trying to create a custom popup menu that I would like to position on the overflow menu button of the actionbar (am using a Toolbar with setSupportActionBar() for this if it matters). I found out that this can be done with the setAnchorView() (from reading Custom Menu item in Overflow menu ). However I cant seem to figure out how to retrieve the overflow menu as a view (that I could use to set the anchor with). Also I did try anchoring this to the parent layout of the activity itself but it showed up on the left top, and the height of the menu was equal to the height of the actionbar

Can I detect click/tap on the menu button of action bar, i.e. used to show overflow menu items? By default it opens up the list with one item "Settings". Here is the screenshot: Until now it is detecting click on "2" but I want to detect click on "1". FR073N To detect the click on the overflow menu have such code: @Override public boolean onMenuOpened(int featureId, Menu menu) { if(featureId == AppCompatDelegate.FEATURE_SUPPORT_ACTION_BAR && menu != null){ //overflow menu clicked, put code here... } return super.onMenuOpened(featureId, menu); } @Override public void onPanelClosed(int featureId