onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) only gets called once during the lifecycle of an Activity

Question

I noticed that

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

only gets called once. I need this to get called every time the menu is displayed because I add/remove items from the menu depending on the application state.

is this possible?

Answer 1

Yes. To do that you need to use:

public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu (Menu menu) 

That code will be executed every time before your options menu is shown. More information here.