Fragment's onOptionsItemSelected doesn't get called

Question

My fragment replaces the parent Activity options with a specific option item but when I click on the item, only activity's onOptionItemSelected gets called eventhough I've overridden the method inside Fragment. Am I missing something?

Fragment's methods:

@Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);        setHasOptionsMenu(true); }  @Override public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {      Log.d(TAG, "Fragment.onCreateOptionsMenu");      if (mPasteMode) {         menu.clear();         inflater.inflate(R.menu.contexual_paste, menu);         getActivity().getActionBar().setTitle("PasteMode");     }     super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater); }  @Override public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {      Log.d(TAG, "Fragment.onOptionsItemSelected");      switch (item.getItemId()) {         case R.id.context_action_paste:             Toast.makeText(getActivity(),                      "It worked ",                     Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();             return true;         default:             return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);     } } 

Activity's methods:

@Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {      MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();     inflater.inflate(R.menu.main, menu);     return true; }  @Override public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {      Log.d(TAG, "MainActivitiy.onOptionsItemSelected");     switch (item.getItemId()) {         case R.id.action_refresh:             Toast.makeText(this, "Action Refresh selected", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();             break;         default:             break;     }     return true; } 

Logcat output:

MainActivity.onCreateOptionsMenu Fragment.onCreateOptionsMenu MainActivitiy.onOptionsItemSelected 

So how can I have the onOptionsItemSelected of the fragment called?

Answer 1

If your Activity's onOptionsItemSelected method returs true, the call is consumed in activity and Fragment's onOptionsItemSelected is not called. So, return false in your Activity onOptionsItemSelected method or parent class implementation via super.onOptionsItemSelected call (default implementation returns false).

According Activity class javadoc, method Activity.onOptionsItemSelected should:

Return false to allow normal menu processing to proceed, true to consume it here

Answer 2

You are not chaining to the superclass in the activity methods. Please have onCreateOptionsMenu() return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu), and have onOptionsItemSelected() return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item) (except for the item that you are handling, which should return true to indicate that you have handled the event).