Android action bar menu item with actionLayout not working properly

Question

Hi I am developing an Android application. In my application I am using Sherlock action. I've defined few menu items in action-bar like in following manner

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">     <item         android:id="@+id/card_menu"         android:actionLayout="@layout/action_button"         android:showAsAction="always"         android:title="cards">         <menu>             <item                 android:id="@+id/C1"                 android:title="C1"/>             <item                 android:id="@+id/C2"                 android:title="c2"/>             <item                 android:id="@+id/C3"                 android:title="C3"/>         </menu>     </item>     <item         android:id="@+id/notification"         android:actionLayout="@layout/notification_icon"         android:icon="@drawable/notification"         android:showAsAction="always"         android:title="Notifications"/>      <item         android:id="@+id/filter"         android:icon="@drawable/filter"         android:showAsAction="always"         android:title="Filter"/> </menu> 

and My action_button looks like :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     android:layout_width="wrap_content"     android:layout_height="wrap_content">      <ImageView         android:id="@+id/menu_img"         android:layout_width="wrap_content"         android:layout_height="wrap_content"         android:src="@drawable/spinner_ab_focused_maroon"/>     <TextView         android:id="@+id/menu_text"         android:layout_width="wrap_content"         android:layout_height="wrap_content"         android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/imageView0"         android:text="C1"/> </RelativeLayout> 

Now everything is displayed but my problem is that when I click on card_menu item where I define sub menus and also define action layout. It's not showing those sub menus. My other menu items are working properly. Only when I define action layout for my item which contains sub menus that I am not able to display sub-menu. If I remove action layout it works fine.

I know if we define action layout for item then we have to manually handle click listener. I did that in following manner

final MenuItem item = menu.findItem(R.id.card_menu);         item.getActionView().setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {             @Override             public void onClick(View v) {                 onOptionsItemSelected(item);                 Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "click on menu", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();             }         }); 

I am able to handle to click event for that item but not able to show drop-down sub menu items.

How do I solve this problem?

Answer 1

Try this code in your activity.
Be sure to properly set your

R.menu.menuidentifier

R.id.menuitemidentifier

@Override     public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {         MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();         inflater.inflate(R.menu.actionbarhelpmenu, menu);         final Menu m = menu;         final MenuItem item = menu.findItem(R.id.ActionConnection);         item.getActionView().setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {              @Override             public void onClick(View v) {                    m.performIdentifierAction(item.getItemId(), 0);             }         });         return true;     }