Set Item postition in ActionBar

Question

I have this layout that add 1 or more items into the ActionBar

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
        <item
           android:id="@+id/item_test"                
           android:showAsAction="always|withText"
           android:title="SearchIcon"/> 
</menu>

And then I will add another item dynamically into the ActionBar from another Fragment or Activity

MenuItem populateItem = menu.add("My New Item - Reload Icon");

But I want the item that I just added to stay in front of the items I had before, like the picture:

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If I add it like I did, the icons will be shown as the last picture, how can I get the alignment like in the second picture?

Iñigo · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-24T07:59:55.110

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You can re-order the menu items with the android:orderInCategory attribute in each you need to move. You have to play around with that option alogn with menuCategory.

For example, assign to all items:

android:menuCategory="system"

Then, just set lower orderInCategory values to the Items you want to keep on the left.

Order in category determines the order appearance, from low to high.

edited Jul 24 '12 at 07:59

answered Jul 24 '12 at 07:54

Iñigo

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thanks! Its working correctly! lol took me longer to write, than getting an answer :P – feco Jul 24 '12 at 08:03
Great! I had the same issue a week ago. – Iñigo Jul 24 '12 at 08:09
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Thanks for this. Any way to do this dynamically, at runtime? – Robert Karl Feb 13 '13 at 23:38
But if i am adding menu items dynamically, then how would i do it @chinaski? – Diffy Jun 14 '14 at 21:39
@Diffy: menu.add(Menu.CATEGORY_SYSTEM, 1, 1, getString(...)) – Kostassoid Aug 19 '14 at 11:56
Setting orderInCategory seems to work even if you have not defined any category and have not set menuCategory. – murrayc Sep 23 '14 at 10:49

Set Item postition in ActionBar

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