I have been trying to add a button to the SherlockActionBar but I can't get it working.
This is the code that I have:
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
android.view.MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu, (android.view.Menu) menu);
return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}
This is my menu.xml
code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="@+id/save_button"
android:title="i"
android:showAsAction="always" />
</menu>
This doesn't work, as even if I press the menu button, nothing shows up. Is there any other way? Am I making any mistake?
You are using Android's Menu and MenuInflater, but should be using the classes that come with ActionBarSherlock:
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
com.actionbarsherlock.view.MenuInflater inflater = getSupportMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu, (com.actionbarsherlock.view.Menu) menu);
return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}
It seems like you are intermingling the two right now. Make sure that you import only com.actionbarsherlock.view.Menu and com.actionbarsherlock.view.MenuInflater, and not its Android counterparts. I recommend you to do something like the following:
import com.actionbarsherlock.view.Menu;
import com.actionbarsherlock.view.MenuInflater;
...
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
MenuInflater inflater = getSupportMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu, menu);
return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}
I think in the menu.xml. Your item does not declare android:showAsAction attribute completely. You must declare it like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="@+id/save_button"
android:title="i"
android:showAsAction="always|withText" />
</menu>
Since you did not specify any icon for the item action bar cannot display any item. By default icon are display than text.
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