Android create custom overflow menu item

Question

I want to create a custom overflow menu item in my ActionBar in addition at the Setting item like described in the image below:

But if there is few space in the ActionBar I don't want that the Item1 and Item2 go into the Setting item as overflow, but into "my overflow item".

this is my menu xml code:

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
    android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_agenda"  
    android:title="Item1"
    android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText" />

<item
    android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_add"  
    android:title="Item2"
    android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText" />

<item android:id="@+id/pick_action_provider"
    android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_sort_by_size" 
    android:showAsAction="always"
    android:title="Overflow" >
     <menu>  
        <item android:id="@+id/action_sort_size"  
              android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_camera"  
              android:title="Item3" />  
        <item android:id="@+id/action_sort_alpha"  
              android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_sort_alphabetically"  
              android:title="Item4" />  
    </menu>  
</item>

<item
    android:id="@+id/action_settings"
    android:orderInCategory="100"
    android:showAsAction="never"
    android:title="@string/action_settings"/></menu>

Answer 1

This will help you. I had coded this for overflow menu

In menu/main.xml file

<item
    android:id="@+id/overflow"
    android:orderInCategory="100"
    android:showAsAction="always"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_overflow"
    android:title="">
    <menu>
        <item
            android:id="@+id/facebook"
            android:title="Facebook"/>

        <item
            android:id="@+id/Twitter"
            android:title="Twitter"/>

        <item
            android:id="@+id/Youtube"
            android:title="Youtube"/>
    </menu>
</item>

And here is your java code:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);

    return true;

}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {

    // Handle action bar actions click

    super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    if(item.getItemId() == R.id.facebook){
        Toast.makeText(Getstarted.this, "Option pressed= facebook",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }
    else if(item.getItemId() == R.id.Youtube){
        Toast.makeText(Getstarted.this, "Option pressed= youtube",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }
    else if(item.getItemId() == R.id.Twitter){
        Toast.makeText(Getstarted.this, "Option pressed= twitter",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }
    return true;    

}