Android: Showing Action Bar menu items depending on ViewPager

Question

I am having trouble getting the following piece of code to work out. I have a viewpager with 3 fragments, and I want a search icon to only show up on one. I started off trying to add the search function by the fragment, but the rendering of the menu item was slow when swiping to that page. I am now on the part to add the search icon to the activity, and then just hide or show depending on which viewpager page is active, but the following is not working:

public class MyApp extends FragmentActivity implements 
   FragmentTeams.FragmentNotification,ViewPager.OnPageChangeListener, 
      OnNavigationListener{

  ...

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_main, menu);

    menuSearch = menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search);
    mSearchView = new SearchView(this);
    menuSearch.setActionView(mSearchView);
    menuSearch.setVisible(false);
    return true;
}

 @Override
public void onPageSelected(int pageNum) {

if(pageNum== 1){     
    ActionBar actionBar = MyApp.this.getActionBar();
        actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_LIST);     
        menuSearch.setVisible(true);
        invalidateOptionsMenu();

}else{           
    ActionBar actionBar = MyApp.this.getActionBar();
        actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_STANDARD);  
        menuSearch.setVisible(false);
        invalidateOptionsMenu();
    }
}

While the above does (appear to) create and hide the icon at onCreateOptionsMenu, it is not reenabled when moving to

 pageNum ==1  

Can anyone give me some insight as to why this may be happening?

Answer 1

invalidateOptionsMenu make the system calls the method onPrepareOptionsMenu, so you can override this method as follows:

public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
      int pageNum = getCurrentPage();
      if (pageNum == 1) {
         menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search).setVisible(true);

      }
      else {
         menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search).setVisible(false);
      }
   }

public void onPageSelected(int pageNum) {
    invalidateOptionsMenu();
}

Answer 2

You can implement onCreateOptionsMenu() in your Fragment and set 'setHasOptionsMenu(true)' for the fragment