Android ActivityGroup Menu Problem

Question

I have one problem using ActivityGroup. I have two activities inside an ActivityGroup and both of them use a menu (overriding the onCreateOptionMenu and onOptionsItemSelected).

Well, the problem is that the second activity in the group doesn't show the menu when I press the menu Key. The first activity works fine showing the menu.

Any idea about this issue?

I have this code in child activity:

    @Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    boolean result = super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
    menu.add(0, MENU_REFRESH, 0, R.string.menu_refresh).setIcon(R.drawable.ic_menu_refresh);
    return result;
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
    case MENU_REFRESH:
        Log.d(TAG,"REFRESH");
        refresh();
        return true;
    }
    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}

Answer 1

Another nice way of handling this is by using the ActivityGroup's LocalActivityManager. Get the local activity manager, get the current activity, and perform that activity's appropriate method:

public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    //super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
    return getLocalActivityManager().getCurrentActivity()
        .onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    //super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
    return getLocalActivityManager().getCurrentActivity()
        .onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}

public boolean onMenuItemSelected(int featureId, MenuItem item) {
    //super.onMenuItemSelected(featureId, item);
    return getLocalActivityManager().getCurrentActivity()
        .onMenuItemSelected(featureId, item);
}

Note: using this strategy, you must not call super.onCreateOptionsMenu from the child activity- doing so causes a stack overflow exception. I'm not sure what the purpose of calling the superclass's on* methods, as I've omitted them and have seen no negative results. (... yet)