Android Option Menu With Icon

How to show icon with option menu.I have tried the following code but my option menu is without image icon.I am using android version 4.0 for developing app. Java code : public bo

Solution 1:

Override OnPrepareOptionsMenu and add icon from there too

and if its for above 3.0, use android:showAsAction in xml.

eg. android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"

Solution 2:

I tried the code in two line and it works:

publicbooleanonCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
        menu.add("Add Contacts");
        menu.getItem(0).setIcon(R.drawable.ic_launcher);
        returntrue;
}

Solution 3:

You can create a custom menu like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><menuxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"><itemandroid:id="@+id/add_contacts"android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"android:title="@string/add_contacts"
         /></menu>

And then inflate it

@OverridepublicbooleanonCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuInflaterinflater= getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.my_menu, menu);
    returntrue;
}

More on this here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/menus.html#options-menu

Solution 4:

you can directly set this into the xml file.

  <item android:id="@+id/add_contacts"
  android:icon="@android:drawable/plus_icon"
  android:title="Add Contacts"/>

Solution 5:

You Can try Following this Link.

Check this out and tell me if it worked or not.

Or you can do some thing like this. Create menu.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><menuxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"><itemandroid:id="@+id/next"android:icon="@drawable/ic_next"android:title="@string/next" /><itemandroid:id="@+id/previous"android:icon="@drawable/ic_previous"android:title="@string/previous" /><itemandroid:id="@+id/list"android:icon="@drawable/ic_list"android:title="@string/list" /></menu>

And now you will be able to set ICON on menu

Now in CreateOptionMenu

publicbooleanonCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
      MenuInflaterinflater= getMenuInflater();
      inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu, menu);
      returntrue;
    }

And to access that menu.

publicbooleanonOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
      switch (item.getItemId()) {
      case R.id.next:
            Toast.makeText(this, "You have chosen the " + getResources().getString(R.string.next) + " menu option",
                        Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            returntrue;
      …
      default:
            returnsuper.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
      }
   }