Actionbar's overflow menu open/close listener

Question

I want to listen when user opens/closes the overflow menu (three dots) of ActionBar, someway like this:

void onOverflowMenu(boolean expanded) {
}

To handle open cases, I've tried onPrepareOptionsMenu(), but it's triggered when ActionBar is constructed or when invalidateOptionsMenu() is called. This is not what I want.

I was able to detect overflow menu is closed if user selects a menu item in onMenuItemSelected(). But I also want to detect it if user closes overflow menu by tapping outside of it, by pressing back key, and all other cases.

Is there a way to implement that?

Try checking if `onMenuItemSelected()` when you press on your overflow menu. If it is triggered you could debug your application and check what you need to do in order to proper catch that event. — zozelfelfo, May 22 '14 at 12:12

score 22 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 07 '14 at 15:02

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To catch open action in the Activity:

@Override
public boolean onMenuOpened(int featureId, Menu menu) {
    ...
    return super.onMenuOpened(featureId, menu);
}

To catch closed action, also if user touch outside of Menu view:

@Override
public void onPanelClosed(int featureId, Menu menu) {
    ...
}

edited Nov 07 '14 at 15:02

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answered May 22 '14 at 12:17

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Thanks! It works. Also I added check if (featureId == FEATURE_ACTION_BAR) to make sure which menu has been triggered. – Dima Kornilov May 22 '14 at 12:35
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onMenuOpened is fired twice which is not accurate if you are trying to track analytics on the Overflow menu being opened. – AdamHurwitz Apr 13 '17 at 23:52
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Please refer to the correct solution here. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41558904/why-is-menu-of-appcompatactivity-onmenuopenedint-featureid-menu-menu-null onPrepareOptionsMenu() will be called only once when the overflow menu is opened. – AdamHurwitz Apr 14 '17 at 00:03
How can we check similar scenario with overflow menu inside a fragment? – Roohi Zuwairiyah Mar 29 '19 at 14:23

pratt · Answer 2 · 2017-08-25T12:56:55.043

IMHO the simplest way is to set ActionBar.OnMenuVisibilityListener

ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
if (actionBar != null) {
    actionBar.addOnMenuVisibilityListener(new ActionBar.OnMenuVisibilityListener() {
        @Override
        public void onMenuVisibilityChanged(boolean isVisible) {
            if (isVisible) {
                // menu expanded
            } else {
                // menu collapsed
            }
        }
    });
}

Actionbar's overflow menu open/close listener

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