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Alex Bush
Alex Bush

Reputation: 735

How to add a second drop down list to Action Bar in Android Honeycomb?

I've been playing with Honeycomb for the last week and had a hard time to find something about more than one drop-down list in Action Bar. I've used this tutorial and successfully added one drop-down list to it. But I don't know how to add another one. Please tell me if you know how to do it. Thanks.

P.S. also one little this how can I change the position of elements in Action Bar(this is off topic)?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5965

Answers (2)

mbonness
mbonness

Reputation: 1682

Not sure about Honeycomb but I was able to add two drop down lists to my action bar in JellyBean without using a custom view.

res/menu/main_menu.xml

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
  <item
    android:id="@+id/menu_main_spinner"
    android:actionViewClass="android.widget.Spinner"
    android:showAsAction="always"/>
  <item
    android:id="@+id/menu_status_spinner"
    android:actionViewClass="android.widget.Spinner"
    android:showAsAction="always"/>
</menu>

MyActivity.java

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    getMenuInflater().inflate( R.menu.main_menu, menu );

    MenuItem mainMenuSpinner = menu.findItem( R.id.menu_main_spinner);
    setupMainMenuSpinner( mainMenuSpinner );

    MenuItem statusSpinner = menu.findItem( R.id.menu_status_spinner );
    setupStatusSpinner( statusSpinner );

    return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}

private void setupMainMenuSpinner(MenuItem item) {
    View view = item.getActionView();
    if (view instanceof Spinner) {
        Spinner spinner = (Spinner) view;
        spinner.setAdapter(ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(this,
                R.array.main_menu_options,
                android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item));
    }
}

private void setupStatusSpinner(MenuItem item) {
    View view = item.getActionView();
    if (view instanceof Spinner) {
        Spinner spinner = (Spinner) view;
        spinner.setAdapter(ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(this,
                R.array.status,
                android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item));
    }
}

Upvotes: 9

CommonsWare
CommonsWare

Reputation: 1006584

You would have to do that yourself. Instead of setNavigationMode(), use setCustomView().

P.S. also one little this how can I change the position of elements in Action Bar(this is off topic)?

Generally, you can't. You control the order (e.g., toolbar buttons via the order they are in your options menu XML). That's pretty much it.

Upvotes: 2

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