Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Example to create Menu

Create Menu


Modify /res/menu/main.xml to define menu items.
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >

    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_settings"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="never"
        android:title="@string/action_settings"/>
    
    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_up"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
        android:icon="@android:drawable/arrow_up_float"
        android:title="Up"/>
    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_down"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
        android:icon="@android:drawable/arrow_down_float"
        android:title="Down"/>
    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_other"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:title="Other"/>

</menu>


To load menu, override onCreateOptionsMenu() method to inflate R.menu.main. It's loaded in default generated code.

To handle menu item selected, override onOptionsItemSelected() method.

MainActivity.java
package com.example.androidmenu;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

 @Override
 protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
 }

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

 @Override
 public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
  
  switch(item.getItemId()){
  case R.id.action_settings:
   Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), 
     "Setting...", 
     Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
   break;
  case R.id.action_up:
   Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), 
     "Up...", 
     Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
   break;
  case R.id.action_down:
   Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), 
     "Down...", 
     Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
   break;
  case R.id.action_other:
   Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), 
     "Other...", 
     Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
   break;
  default:
   Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), 
     "Unknown...", 
     Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
   break;
  }
  
  //Return false to allow normal menu processing to proceed, 
  //true to consume it here.
  return false;
 }
 
}


Next:
- Show and hide menu item programatically


4 comments:

Unknown said...

hi i am ganesh u r blog is awesome .........am a fresher in android development,i have learnt so many things from u r blog...
i am developing smschat App,,it contains list of messages,i want to set the date & time to each message,the date & time shoud update every time....in textview but am unable get set the date & time
so plz could u help me in this app....
my mail id is:ganeshmudhiraj12@gmail.com
my code is as follows......


GregorianCalendar calCreationDate = new GregorianCalendar();
int intMilli = calCreationDate.get(Calendar.MILLISECOND);
int intSeconds = calCreationDate.get(Calendar.SECOND);
calCreationDate.add(Calendar.MILLISECOND, (-1*intMilli));
calCreationDate.add(Calendar.SECOND, -1*intSeconds);
calCreationDate.add(Calendar.MINUTE, 1);
Date dateStartDate = calCreationDate.getTime();

String time =dateStartDate.toString();




Thanks.....

Erik said...

Ganesh Mannoul,

I don't understand why you add something on calCreationDate, for what?

To get the current date/time, the code here is ok:

GregorianCalendar gregorianCalendar = new GregorianCalendar();
Date dateStartDate = gregorianCalendar.getTime();
String time =dateStartDate.toString();

Anonymous said...

getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);

what is the significance of the above command. what does it do?

Erik said...

The code getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu) inflate menu resource (defined in XML) into the Menu provided in the callback.

reference: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/menus.html#options-menu