How do you turn off share history when using ShareActionProvider?

Question

The new ShareActionProvider available in Android 4.0 (or in earlier versions if you're using ActionBarSherlock) has a feature where the last used item is displayed in the action bar. Is there anyway to turn this off?

Answer 1

For me, the best solution for avoid the history icon is don't use ShareActionProvider, instead of it, create it as any other action:

 <item      android:id="@+id/menu_action_share"     android:showAsAction="ifRoom"      android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_share"     android:title="@string/share"/>    

at the menu/activity_actions.xml put a item with the ic_action_share icon...

@Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {     getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_actions, menu);     return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);  } 

Inflate the menu normally...

private void actionShare(){      Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);      i.setType("text/plain");      i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "my string");      i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "another string");      startActivity(i);       //Or like above will always display the chooser      //startActivity(Intent.createChooser(i, getResources().getText(R.string.share)));   } 

Create a method with an ACTION_SEND intent

@Override     public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {         switch (item.getItemId()) {         case R.id.menu_item_share:             actionShare();             return true;         default:             return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);         }     } 

And finally call to this method from onOptionsItemSelected

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