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Loading Menus through XML files in Android

Oleg Mazurashu — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:15:48 +0000

Android has possibility to load menus through xml files. I found this approach very useful. I really like that I don’t need to worry about uniqueness menu item ID’s because Android generates all menu ID’s as other project IDs. In this post I want to show how you can use it in your work.

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Using Context Menus in Android

Oleg Mazurashu — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:21:09 +0000

Context menu in Android is similar to context menu in any others OS.

In Microsoft Windows or in any Linux distr you click right mouse key and see context menu. The same is in Android, but you press and hold your view which has context menu.

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Adding alphabetical shortcut to the menu item in Android

Oleg Mazurashu — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:46:15 +0000

There is a way to add alphabetical shortcut to your menu item. I am going to show how it can be done.

@Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { menu.add(0, NEW_MENU_ITEM, 0, "New").setAlphabeticShortcut('N'); ... return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu); }

As you can see it is very easy.

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Adding icon to the menu item in Android

Oleg Mazurashu — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:46:56 +0000

There is a good practice to add icons to the menu items. I am going to show code snippet which add icon to the menu item:

@Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { menu.add(0, ADD_MENU_ITEM, 0, "Add").setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_menu_add); return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu); }

This code adds icon add to the menu item ADD_MENU_ITEM.

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Using Submenu in Android

Oleg Mazurashu — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:37:12 +0000

Submenu is a another way to group your menu items. I am going to show how to create, add items and handle item selections. Creating Submenu and adding items:

@Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { SubMenu fileMenu = menu.addSubMenu("File"); fileMenu.add(FILE, NEW_MENU_ITEM, 0, "new"); ...

Handle Submenu item selections

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Operations with Options Menu items group in Android

Oleg Mazurashu — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:40:15 +0000

Sometimes need to group your Options menu items. Group is very useful when you need to work (remove, disable or hide) with several menu items. I am going to show example about how to remove, disable/enable and hide/show group of menu items. These operations are very simple I will not describe how they works. You . . . → Read More: Operations with Options Menu items group in Android No related posts.

Handling Options Menu item selections in Android

Oleg Mazurashu — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:32:38 +0000

I showed previously how to create an Options menu and how to add Menu item to it.

Now I am going to show how to handle options menu item selection. I will show code snippet and after whole example.

For this handling need to override onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) method in your Activity:

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Creating Options Menu and adding menu items to the Options Menu in Android

Oleg Mazurashu — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:13:37 +0000

From this post I am going to start series posts about Menu. Menu is very important. I will try to show all actions with menus in next posts.

Maybe it will be better to write one big article, but there are 2 problems from my side.

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Dynamically change Options Menu Items in Android

Oleg Mazurashu — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:49:41 +0000

Sometimes need to change, add, delete options menu items dynamically after some event or after some situation in application flow. We all know onCreateOptionsMenu method which helps to create options menu for activity. But in this situation it doesn’t help. For this situation I use public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu).

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