Android Option Menu on Button click

Question

I am trying to show the Option menu on button click.How can I do this can anyone tell me.

score 64 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 04 '11 at 01:33

64

You can use openOptionsMenu to programmatically open the options menu.

If you have a Button, you can do:

button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        openOptionsMenu();
    }
});

or else set android:onClick="myOnClickMethod" on your Button in xml and then have:

public myOnClickMethod(View v) {
    openOptionsMenu();
}

in your activity.

answered Apr 04 '11 at 01:33

Matthew

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Warning -- this is completely insufficient in terms of cross-version and configuration requirements. It is not this simple once you start considering Honeycomb, ActionBars, ICS, 4.3 bugs, etc. – Cory Trese Aug 07 '13 at 07:06
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@CoryTrese please tell some senarios where this can fail. If possible, giving solution to those problems will be remarkably thankful. – Rahul Rastogi Jun 04 '14 at 11:33
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My project is completely on single activity with all fragments supporting version 2.3 onwards, not using android provided action bar, made my own layout header and using it as a action bar. – Rahul Rastogi Jun 04 '14 at 11:35
what happens with the activity when openOptionsMenu() is called? does it stop? does it pause? thx – iversoncru Feb 19 '15 at 08:18
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I can say this much: openOptionsMenu() is failing on a Samsung Tab S 10.5 LTE running 5.0.2. It works on my other devices. – Edward Falk Aug 08 '15 at 23:33
@RahulRastogi Like you said above i am using layout header as action bar. How to show the overflow menu on button click. Please look into this SO question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33297034/show-overflow-menu-on-image-button-click#33297127 and help me out. Thanks – Royal Oct 23 '15 at 10:13

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