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Sheehan Alam
Sheehan Alam

Reputation: 60919

How to programatically change an item in the options menu?

When the user clicks on the Menu button I present a few menu items. One of them is a Sign Out button. I want to be able to change the text between "Sign In" and "Sign Out" depending on a boolean value I am tracking. How can I programmatically change the text in the menu?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1929

Answers (2)

runor49
runor49

Reputation: 3880

You want to override the onPrepareOptionsMenu function in the Activity. There is a menu parameter passed, you can simply find the menuitem that you want to show/hide (or change the image and text) and return true.

onPrepareOptionsMenu

Upvotes: 3

LeffelMania
LeffelMania

Reputation: 12875

Override/Implement the onPrepareOptionsMenu(...) callback. Change what you add based on your sign-in state.

Alternatively, I haven't tested this but in my mind it works: When you create your menu items, keep a handle to the Sign In/Sign Out item in a class variable, and just update it by calling setTitle(...) as needed.

Upvotes: 3

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