Android : Get view Reference to a Menu Item

Question

I plan to use quick actions UI pattern in my application. Android Quick Actions UI Pattern . The quick action window needs a pivot view to stick to.

    quickAction.show(View pivotView); 

I intend to use quick action for the menu Item, I can get access to the item that is clicked. But the problem is i need to reference a view from the menu item so that i can pass it to the quick action.

How can i get reference to a view in the menuItem that is selected.

Answer 1

You can achieve this by providing your menu item with an actionViewClass property in xml and then you will be able to get the pivot view u wanted. The code would be something like this

<item     android:id="@+id/menu_find"     android:showAsAction="ifRoom"     android:actionViewClass="android.widget.ImageButton"     /> 

In your OnCreateOptionsMenu do this

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {     super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);     getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_search, menu);     locButton = (ImageButton) menu.findItem(R.id.menu_find).getActionView();     locButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {          @Override         public void onClick(View v) {             // TODO Auto-generated method stub             createPopup();             mQuickAction.show(v);         }     });     return true; } 

Answer 2

Old question, but I ran into some issues with the actionViewClass attribute. For anyone who runs into this later...

Calling findViewById(R.id.mnu_item) in onOptionsItemSelected will return a View anchor.

QuickActions on the MenuItems aren't good design, but I found that they are the simplest way to implement submenus with custom backgrounds.