Android -- Problems with Checkable menu items

Question

I have read the instructions at the android developers page's in order to get the Checkable menu items:

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/menus.html

this is my xmlmenu:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <group android:checkableBehavior="all">
        <item android:id="@+id/regu"
              android:title="@string/Regulatory" />
        <item android:id="@+id/warn"
              android:title="@string/Warning" />
        <item android:id="@+id/temp"
              android:title="@string/Temporary" />
        <item android:id="@+id/bicy"
              android:title="@string/Bicycle" />
    </group>
</menu>

And here is my code:

 @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
      switch (item.getItemId()) {
      case R.id.regu:
          if (item.isChecked())
          {
              item.setChecked(false);
              currAvailableOptions++;
          }
          else if(0 != currAvailableOptions)
          {
                  item.setChecked(true);
                  currAvailableOptions--;
          }
          return true;
      case R.id.warn:
          if (item.isChecked())
          {
              item.setChecked(false);
              currAvailableOptions++;
          }
          else if(0 != currAvailableOptions)
          {
                  item.setChecked(true);
                  currAvailableOptions--;
          }
        return true;
      case R.id.temp:
          if (item.isChecked())
          {
              item.setChecked(false);
              currAvailableOptions++;
          }
          else if(0 != currAvailableOptions)
          {
                  item.setChecked(true);
                  currAvailableOptions--;
          }
          return true;
      default:
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
      }
    }

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
        inflater.inflate(R.menu.app_menu, menu);
        return true;
    }

The problem is when I clicked one item, the menu item disappeared. It wouldn't have to stay visible in order to check other menu items?

Any idea?

Greetings

Answer 1

Checkable items appear only in submenus or context menus.

And with submenu they (Google) means:

Submenu A floating list of menu items that appears when the user touches a menu item that contains a nested menu.

Since your menu items are not submenu items, it will not work