Open custom menu on tap of option menu

Question

I have activity with custom actionbar(Basically custom layout xml), therefore I have created a custom menu button as well in layout file and showing a popup,

I am usingthis callback to showing same popup on tap of hardware option menu, but give a weird behaviour e.g this will open custom menu whenvery onresume is run.

@Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        //return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
        showHideMenu();
        return false;
    }

can you please suggest where I can placeshowHideMenu(); will which work like custom option menu

//showHideMenu() code

private void showHideMenu() {
        if (mPopUpMenu.isShowing())
            dismissPopUpMenu();
        else
            showMenu();
    }

private void dismissPopUpMenu() {
        // dismiss menu
        if (mPopUpMenu != null)
            mPopUpMenu.dismiss();
    }

Do you want to link hardware menu button to actionbar menu ? — Shahzeb, Oct 05 '15 at 04:45
Yes Correct, I want to open same popup in hardware option menu which is open by actionbar menu, — Lavekush Agrawal, Oct 05 '15 at 04:48
you want to use `Hardware menu button` but in some devices it is not present , do have a second thought on how you will handle that ? — Satyen Udeshi, Oct 05 '15 at 05:25
@Satyen It is present in all device, some devices have hard form and some devices have soft formlike home and back button, therefore callback and api are same for both. — Lavekush Agrawal, Oct 05 '15 at 05:46

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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You should look for an up keyevent:

public boolean onKeyUp(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
    if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_MENU) {
        showHideMenu();
        return true;
    }
    return super.onKeyUp(keyCode, event);
}

Include this for PopUp:

mPopUpMenu.getContentView().setOnKeyListener(new View.OnKeyListener() {        
        @Override
        public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
            if (keyCode ==  KeyEvent.KEYCODE_MENU) {
                // ... payload action here. e.g. popupMenu.dismiss();
                return true;
            }                
            return false;
        }
    });

Reference: Detecting physical Menu key press in Android

edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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answered Oct 05 '15 at 04:55

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this is working fine, but when I press it again, this code does not trigger, it might be because a custom popup is showing that's why onKeyUp is not triggering again for hiding purposes. have you any idea ? – Lavekush Agrawal Oct 05 '15 at 05:10
may be you have not handled this case in showHideMenu();. Kindly post this function – Shahzeb Oct 05 '15 at 05:13
I have handle but onKeyUp method is not triggering while any popup is displaying on the screen, and my menu is also a custom popup. – Lavekush Agrawal Oct 05 '15 at 05:47
Added please have a look in question again – Lavekush Agrawal Oct 05 '15 at 06:31
One more check, can you place a breakpoint and see if the function executes even if the popup is showing? I think somehow your instance of mPopUpMenu is getting null in dismissPopUpMenu() – Shahzeb Oct 05 '15 at 06:34
I have allready did same things, that's why I inform you that code is not triggering due popup is displaying.and mPopUpMenu is a have live instance, i have already cross all above points, thanks for your support, I think problem is that if any popup is displaying then keyUp event is not triggering. – Lavekush Agrawal Oct 05 '15 at 06:37
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/91354/discussion-between-shahzeb-and-lavekush). – Shahzeb Oct 05 '15 at 06:44

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 05 '15 at 04:48

you can use PopupMenu for showing custom menu. for this you have to find a view to attach menu.and then you can wrote

 //Creating the instance of PopupMenu  
        PopupMenu popup = new PopupMenu(MainActivity.this, button1);  
        //Inflating the Popup using xml file  
        popup.getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.popup_menu,popup.getMenu()); 
popup.setOnMenuItemClickListener(new PopupMenu.OnMenuItemClickListener() {  
         public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) {  
          Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this,"You Clicked : " + item.getTitle(),Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();  
          return true;  
         }  
        });  

        popup.show();//showing popup menu

for more information you can see http://www.androidhive.info/2011/09/how-to-create-android-menus/

I want to open this custom menu on tap of hardware option menu. — Lavekush Agrawal, Oct 05 '15 at 04:50
OP is little bit different please go through question again give a solution, this will not useful in my case — Lavekush Agrawal, Oct 05 '15 at 05:13

Open custom menu on tap of option menu

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