Creating Options menu in Android

Question

I am trying to create options menu in my Android program. I am using the following code to inflate options menu :

 @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {     
     super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);   
        MenuInflater inflater=getMenuInflater();
        inflater.inflate(R.menu.optionsmenu, menu);
        return true;
   }

And my xml code is :

?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
    android:id="@+id/Option1"
    android:title="Option1"/>
<item
    android:id="@+id/Option2"
    android:title="Option2"/>
<item
    android:id="@+id/Option3"
    android:title="Option3"/>
</menu>

But with this code i am not able to show the options menu in my screen.

Also, i am using the code

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen"

to make the activity as full screen view. Does this code creates problem in inflating the menu?

Thanks in advance,

Timson

See here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13267030/oncreateoptionsmenu-is-never-called — user1050755, Apr 08 '13 at 22:33

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 23 '12 at 10:22

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remove the line super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu); from your onCreateOptionMenu. You are actually already providing the menu before inflating it.

answered Jan 23 '12 at 10:22

waqaslam

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I tried without super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu). but still am not getting the menu. Is it a problem with the full screen view? – Timson Jan 23 '12 at 10:26
no. it shouldn't be a problem with full screen. Clean your project and then run – waqaslam Jan 23 '12 at 10:29
I given a Log inside the onCreateOptionsMenu method. But log is not coming in the console. So can i assume that @Override is not working? – Timson Jan 23 '12 at 10:37
are you overriding this in your activity? just thought to confirm :) – waqaslam Jan 23 '12 at 10:47
yes. Am overriding it :) and I am using ActivityGroup in my program. Does this create any issue with menu? – Timson Jan 23 '12 at 10:49
it should work in ActivityGroup too. If you are using Activites to add inside your activitygroup then add this code to your activities rather than to group – waqaslam Jan 23 '12 at 10:54
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hmmm try adding to ActivityGroup and see, because i just tested it doing on one of my own ActivityGroup and it worked – waqaslam Jan 23 '12 at 11:00

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 23 '12 at 10:20

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Options menu shows up by pressing the Options Menu button at the bottom of the phone

answered Jan 23 '12 at 10:20

Rajdeep Dua

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Android version is 2.2. I am pressing the options menu at the bottom. But still the code is not working. – Timson Jan 23 '12 at 10:21

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 23 '12 at 10:22

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Don't call

super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);

as that will return a value before your code is executed.

answered Jan 23 '12 at 10:22

Kingamajick

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 23 '12 at 10:25

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Use this code:

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
      MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
      inflater.inflate(R.menu.options_menu, menu);
      return true;
    }

answered Jan 23 '12 at 10:25

Nibha Jain

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I tried your code without "super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu); " working perfectly for me.. – Nibha Jain Jan 23 '12 at 10:41

Creating Options menu in Android

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