How to set the title of a menu in Android

Question

I'm trying to dynamically set the title of my menu.

Retrieving and setting it as such:

ItemView menuTitle = ((ItemView) findViewById(R.id.menu_filter));
menuTitle.setTitle("TITLE_HERE");

works just fine so long as it's in the onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) method.

I haven't been able to find a way to set this from the onPrepareOptionsMenu or onCreateOptionsMenu methods as findViewById returns null (even after inflating the menu).

Oddly enough there doesn't seem to be anything in the documentation for accomplishing this and google searches haven't turned up much for such a seemingly simple problem.

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 28 '13 at 09:06

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I must have just derped and not realized that there is a function for Menu called findItem...

menu.findItem(R.id.MENU_TITLE).setTitle("MY TITLE");

answered Oct 28 '13 at 09:06

user2884265

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 27 '13 at 12:22

To dynamically set menu title, you'd do this in onCreateOptionsMenu:

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) 
{
      menu.add(Menu.NONE, MyActivity.MENU_ID, 0, "Your Title").setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_IF_ROOM | MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_WITH_TEXT);
    return (true);
}

and as conditions change (i.e. as your title needs to change), call

invalidateOptionsMenu();

on your activity, which will call onCreateOptionsMenu and set the new title.

This just seems to add another button into the action bar instead of changing the title — user2884265, Oct 28 '13 at 09:02

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 23 '20 at 09:33

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Just use :

        getSupportActionBar().setTitle("YOUR TITLE HERE");

Inside on create, after initializing ui or viewbinding or databinding.

answered May 23 '20 at 09:33

Maifee Ul Asad

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This works perfect for me, easy and functional solution. thanks u – Soy César Mora Aug 13 '20 at 02:58

Nabin Khatiwada · Answer 4 · 2020-05-24T15:52:06.430

I am changing the title of the menu from onPrepareOptionMenu something like the below code. This is the code from my fragment, I think this should also work on the activity.

 override fun onCreateOptionsMenu(menu: Menu, inflater: MenuInflater) {
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_profile, menu)
    super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater)
}

override fun onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu: Menu) {
    super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu)
    if (count == 1) {
        menu.findItem(R.id.screen_count).title = "1/3"
    } else {
        menu.findItem(R.id.screen_count).title = "xyz/3"
    }
}

override fun onOptionsItemSelected(item: MenuItem): Boolean {
    when (item.itemId) {
        R.id.ic_edit -> {
            // handle click event here
        }
    }
    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item)
}

How to set the title of a menu in Android

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