android-menu

I'm trying to create a custom popup menu that I would like to position on the overflow menu button of the actionbar (am using a Toolbar with setSupportActionBar() for this if it matters). I found out that this can be done with the setAnchorView() (from reading Custom Menu item in Overflow menu ). However I cant seem to figure out how to retrieve the overflow menu as a view (that I could use to set the anchor with). Also I did try anchoring this to the parent layout of the activity itself but it showed up on the left top, and the height of the menu was equal to the height of the actionbar

How can I set a long click listener on a MenuItem ? I tried this answer , but the method doesn't exist for me. Any solutions? Code: Menu menu = navigationView.getMenu(); MenuItem menuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.menu_item); // TODO set a long click listener on the menuItem. menuItem.setOnLongClickListener(...); // Method does not exist, any other solutions? Edit: I don't want to set a custom ActionView, I want the long click listener to the whole MenuItem , without a custom View. one of many ways (assuming we use Toolbar) - this example should give you the idea how to implement long click on

I am a newbie to android and I was wondering if someone could guide me about how to reuse the action bar in all of my android activities. As far as I have explored, I found out that we have to make a BaseActivity class and extend it in our Activity where we want to reuse it, and also we have to make a xml layout and include it in our activity xml file. I have finished with the BaseActivity part. Now I am sort of confused in framing the xml part and including it. I know how to merge and include a layout, But in case of Action Bar, what necessary steps are to be taken. Any help would be

I just like to implement somethings same as popup menu in the Gmail app, anchored to the overflow button at the top-right. for that I used the same code as google tutorial for android Android popup menu , but for me show pop menu on top of edge of actionbar not under that. If you notice on pop menu of gmail overflow you saw that popmenu take place at edge of actionbar. This is the xml that I used for popup menu: <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" > <item android:id="@+id/item1" android:title="lablab"/> <item android:id="@+id/item2" android:title="lablab"/> </menu>

In the new update Google has released a new API support library, that supports the ActionBar in API level 7+. I used ActionBarSherlock until this update and I wrote the code to load the menu: @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater(); inflater.inflate(R.menu.activity_main, menu); return true; } and the menu file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <item android:id="@+id/item_menu_ok" android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_ok" android:title="@string/ok" android:showAsAction