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vikash
vikash

Reputation: 21

Create Options menu in fragment

I have a main activity along with 3 fragments. I am using navigation drawer to select these fragments. I want to edit the overflow menu options in the action bar based on the fragment currently being shown. For example: If Fragment A is being shown now, i would like to have Edit,Sign Out and Settings options under the overflow button. If Fragment B is selected now, i should have only Settings there.

I tried to override the onCreateOptionsMenu() in the main activity with a different xml and in the fragment with a different one but it does not help as only the options in main activity are shown.

In Main Activity:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
    //return true;
    return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}

In Fragment A:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    getActivity().getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu1, menu);
    //return true;
    return true;
}

main.xml

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_signout"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="never"
        android:title="Sign Out"/>

    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_settings"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="never"
        android:title="@string/action_settings"/>
</menu>

menu1.xml

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_edit"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="never"
        android:title="Edit Profile"/>
    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_signout"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="never"
        android:title="Sign Out"/>

    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_settings"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="never"
        android:title="@string/action_settings"/>    
</menu>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4369

Answers (2)

Muhannad A.Alhariri
Muhannad A.Alhariri

Reputation: 3922

To override options menu you should use setHasOtionsMenu(true) and 

 @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        return false;
    }

That's it

Upvotes: 0

Markus Rubey
Markus Rubey

Reputation: 5248

Call setHasOptionsMenu(true) in your Fragment's onCreate().

public void setHasOptionsMenu (boolean hasMenu)

Report that this fragment would like to participate in populating the options menu by receiving a call to onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu, MenuInflater) and related methods.

If hasMenu is true, the fragment has menu items to contribute.

To hide a particular MenuItem you can call setVisible(false) on it in onPrepareOptionsMenu(). For example:

@Override
public void onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

    //Hides MenuItem action_edit
    menu.getItem(R.id.action_edit).setVisible(false);
}

Upvotes: 0

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