Android: How can show overflow menu exactly on the upper Action bar

Question

I have an overflow menu in my action bar , it shown in some devices on the upper action bar and in other devices shown in the below action bar, I want to show my overflow menu on the upper action bar in all devices. Please help me.

my overflow menu :

<item
android:id="@+id/menu_overflow"
android:icon="@drawable/color"
android:orderInCategory="11111"
android:showAsAction="always">
<menu>
    <item
        android:id="@+id/whitecolor"
        android:showAsAction="never"
        android:icon="@drawable/colorwhite"
        android:title="white"/>


    <item
        android:id="@+id/yellowcolor"
        android:showAsAction="never"
        android:icon="@drawable/coloryellow"
        android:title="yellow"/>


    <item
        android:id="@+id/redcolor"
        android:showAsAction="never"
        android:icon="@drawable/colorred"
        android:title="red"/>


    <item
        android:id="@+id/bluecolor"
        android:showAsAction="never"
        android:icon="@drawable/colorblue"
        android:title="blue"/>
</menu>
</item>

and my code :

public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem menuItem)
    {       
        switch (menuItem.getItemId()) {         
            case R.id.whitecolor:           

                finish();
                break;
            case R.id.yellowcolor:

                finish();
                break;
            case R.id.redcolor:

                finish();
                break;
            case R.id.bluecolor:

                finish();
                break;
        }
        return true;
    }

Please use android:showAsAction="always". If you want your icon to show always on top of actionbar. If you have any query please let me know. — droidd, Jan 13 '15 at 10:28
@Vivek Thanks, as you see, my overflow menu have android:showAsAction="always" , but still it shown in below action bar — user1579019, Jan 13 '15 at 10:34
if i see you menu. your 4 menu items has android:showAsAction="never". — droidd, Jan 13 '15 at 10:39

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 13 '15 at 10:26

If you've developed your application for Android 2.3.x (API level 10) or lower, the contents of your options menu appear at the bottom of the screen when the user presses the Menu button, as shown in below figure.

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If you've developed your application for Android 3.0 (API level 11) and higher, items from the options menu are available in the action bar. By default, the system places all items in the action overflow, which the user can reveal with the action overflow icon on the right side of the action bar (or by pressing the device Menu button, if available). To enable quick access to important actions, you can promote a few items to appear in the action bar by adding android:showAsAction="ifRoom" to the corresponding <item> elements

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OR

Try to used Toolbar, you can show the overflow on all versions and all devices.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 13 '15 at 10:26

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Use Material Design it has built in support due to its design philosophy

answered Jan 13 '15 at 10:26

Akshay Mukadam

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 13 '15 at 10:37

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Try this. For example. if you want more then create layout and set it to your action bar.

      ActionBar actionBar = getActivity().getActionBar();
        actionBar.setDisplayOptions(actionBar.getDisplayOptions()
                | ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM);
        ImageView imageView_done = new ImageView(actionBar.getThemedContext());
        imageView_done.setScaleType(ImageView.ScaleType.CENTER);
        imageView_done.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_action_done);
        ActionBar.LayoutParams layoutParams = new ActionBar.LayoutParams(
                ActionBar.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
                ActionBar.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, Gravity.RIGHT
                | Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL
        );
        layoutParams.rightMargin = 40;
        imageView_done.setLayoutParams(layoutParams);
        actionBar.setCustomView(imageView_done);

answered Jan 13 '15 at 10:37

chain

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Thanks,how can i use this? – user1579019 Jan 13 '15 at 10:54
paste your activity or fragment code that where you want to implement. You have to add this code in your activity oncreat(). – chain Jan 13 '15 at 10:56
Thanks, its shown exactly in the upper actionbar, now how can make it to be an overflow menu? – user1579019 Jan 13 '15 at 11:09
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21329132/android-custom-dropdown-popup-menu refer this link and merge with your current code. definitely you can get answer. – chain Jan 13 '15 at 11:11
thats work, but my items have icon, that does not shown in popup menu. – user1579019 Jan 13 '15 at 12:41
please don't forget to mark it as an answer if it works. show your menu layout then I'll help you. Thanks – chain Jan 13 '15 at 12:45

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