how we can add menu item dynamically

Question

hi frnds am creating an application which is a tab application.

in my Home which extends sherlockFragmentActivity, i am inflating menu.xml and includes code for on optionMenuitem click listener. The Fragmentactivity contains tabhost and on each tab it load fragments. this is my menu.xml

<item
        android:id="@+id/action_settings"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="always"
       android:icon="@drawable/setting_selector"
        android:title=""
        >
        <menu >
            <item
                android:id="@+id/Profile"
                android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
                android:title="Profile"/>
            <item
                android:id="@+id/chngDoctor"
                android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
                android:title="Change doctor"
                android:visible="false"/>
            <item
                android:id="@+id/changePword"
                android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
                android:title="Change password"/>
            <item
                android:id="@+id/logout"
                android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
                android:title="Logout"/>
        </menu>
    </item>

and this is my onCreateOptionMenu and onOptionItemSelected methods in class Home

    @Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    getSupportMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
    SubMenu subMenu = (SubMenu) menu.getItem(0).getSubMenu();
    if(userType.equals("admin"))
        subMenu.getItem(1).setVisible(true);
    else
        subMenu.getItem(1).setVisible(false);
    return true;
}

and this is my onOptionItemSelected method

  @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) 
    {
        switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case R.id.Profile:
              break;
        case R.id.changePword :
            break;
        case R.id.chngDoctor :
                 break;
        case R.id.logout:
            Home.this.finish();
            break;
        }
        return true;
    }

i need to add some menus depending on tab change. that is on tab change i load different fragments and when fragment changes i need to add new items to the menu. my ListFrag which extends SherlockFragment and it will load when i click on the 3 rd tab. when this fragment load i need to add 1 menu item to the menu

Answer 1

Try the following way.

@Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);

        menu.add(0, 0, 0, "Option1").setShortcut('3', 'c');
        menu.add(0, 1, 0, "Option2").setShortcut('3', 'c');
        menu.add(0, 2, 0, "Option3").setShortcut('4', 's');

        SubMenu sMenu = menu.addSubMenu(0, 3, 0, "SubMenu"); //If you want to add submenu               
        sMenu.add(0, 4, 0, "SubOption1").setShortcut('5', 'z');
        sMenu.add(0, 5, 0, "SubOption2").setShortcut('5', 'z');             

        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {           

        switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case 0:
            // code for option1
            return true;
        case 1:
            // code for option2
            return true;
        case 2:
            // code for option3
            return true;            
        case 4:
            // code for subOption1
            return true;
        case 5:
            // code for subOption2
            return true;            
        }
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }

This may help you.

Answer 2

In the menu.xml you should add all the menu items. Then you can hide items that you don't want to see in the initial loading.

<item
    android:id="@+id/action_newItem"
    android:icon="@drawable/action_newItem"
    android:showAsAction="never"
    android:visible="false"
    android:title="@string/action_newItem"/>

Add setHasOptionsMenu(true) in the onCreate() method to invoke the menu items in your Fragment class.

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setHasOptionsMenu(true);
}

You don't need to override onCreateOptionsMenu in your Fragment class again. Menu items can be changed (Add/remoev) by overriding onPrepareOptionsMenumethod available in Fragment.

@Override
public void onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    menu.findItem(R.id.action_newItem).setVisible(true);
    super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);

}