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mohan
mohan

Reputation: 13165

How to change display position of action bar overflow menu in android

Can anybody tell me how to change the display position of the action bar overflow menu in android? In my application there is an image button. If the user clicks the image button I want to display the action bar overflow menu below the image button. Is it possible to do?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3566

Answers (2)

Amit Gupta
Amit Gupta

Reputation: 8939

You can define action bar Overflow menu like say your_menu.xml in menu folder.

and do changes in Manifest file as well. Click Split Action Bar

<activity uiOptions="splitActionBarWhenNarrow" ... >// for API >=11
        <meta-data android:name="android.support.UI_OPTIONS" // support for >=8
                   android:value="splitActionBarWhenNarrow" />
    </activity>

And Menu is like below 

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <item android:id="@+id/button" android:title="@string/menu_option" android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:showAsAction="always">
        <menu>
            <item android:id="@+id/action1" android:title="@string/menu_action1" />
            <item android:id="@+id/action2" android:title="@string/menu_action2" />
            <item android:id="@+id/action3" android:title="@string/menu_action3" />
            <item android:id="@+id/action4" android:title="@string/menu_action4" />
            <item android:id="@+id/action5" android:title="@string/menu_action5"/>

        </menu>
    </item>
</menu>

If will behave like if there is space in action bar, when you will click on ImageButton then Overflow menu will below that button.

If there is no space in the Action bar then, it will show in bottom. And if you will click on ImageButton then Overflow menu will open on the top of Button.

Upvotes: 1

Karakuri
Karakuri

Reputation: 38605

You'll have to do that yourself, perhaps with a PopupMenu.

PopupMenu popupMenu = new PopupMenu(context, view /*anchor view for this popup*/);
popupMenu.inflate(R.menu.some_menu_resource);

/* in the onClick listener of the anchor view */
popupMenu.show();

Upvotes: 1

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