Overflow menu in footer in android

Question

I have created an Option menu and footer with 4 icons on it. I would like the overflow menu icon (Three dots icon) to be shown on the footer instead of top right? Is this possible?

If I put a over flow icon is it possible to access the menu.xml file onClick? if so how do I go about doing this?

Thanks!

Have the toolbar at the bottom. search for toolbar at the bottom on stackoverflow you will find examples — Raghunandan, Feb 05 '16 at 04:40
@Raghnandan: Thanks! OK but how should get overflow menu to shown only on bottom toolbar and not the top? — Sanjana Nair, Feb 05 '16 at 04:58
you can hide the action bar on top if needed and create a custom layout put that in the bottom of the main layout — Dhinakaran Thennarasu, Feb 05 '16 at 05:00
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27482012/how-to-show-action-items-at-the-bottom-using-toolbar — Raghunandan, Feb 05 '16 at 05:00
@Dhina: I have toolbar in the top. I require it as I having couple of buttons there. — Sanjana Nair, Feb 05 '16 at 05:28
I haven't tried any on toolbar part as I am not sure what to start with? As of now I know if I use toolbar I should be able to get the overflow menu but I am not if I can use two toolbars if I do how will I address the overflow menu to show only in bottom toolbar.. — Sanjana Nair, Feb 05 '16 at 08:00

Keshav · Answer 1 · 2016-02-05T07:26:44.630

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First of all set activty theme to NoActionBar.

<style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar">
        <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
        <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>

Then create a Toolbar in XML and set layout_alignParentBottom true.

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize">

Then in onCreate catch the Toolbar and set as ActionBar

mToolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.homeToolbar);
setSupportActionBar(mToolbar);

Create a menu file in res/menu folder

Then inflate that menu in onCreateOptionsMenu.

Then override onOptionsItemSelected and do what you want with the items.

edited Feb 05 '16 at 07:26

answered Feb 05 '16 at 07:20

Keshav

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I have the menu showing the toolbar in the top. If I create a toolbar for bottom I would like to show the menu in the bottom and not in the top. – Sanjana Nair Feb 05 '16 at 08:01
Yes. I have tried menu.. they come up. the problem they are coming both sides. – Sanjana Nair Feb 05 '16 at 08:17
Are you using two Toolbars? – Keshav Feb 05 '16 at 08:18
Then remove the top one. – Keshav Feb 05 '16 at 08:30
As I told you I need both.. there three icons from menu is shown in the top. – Sanjana Nair Feb 05 '16 at 09:17
Then you can create a RelativeLayout and set it parent bottom. And then use a ImageView and onClick of ImageView create a PopUpWindow. – Keshav Feb 05 '16 at 09:21

Overflow menu in footer in android

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