Trying to hide and show menu items on action bar

Question

I have looked through the questions on stack overflow and can\'t find the solution.

@Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuInflater i         


        

Answer 1

Its not enough to change the isDown variable. You have to call the setVisible() method every time you want to change the visibility. That method does more than just setting a boolean value, so just changing a boolean value will not do.

After changing the isDown value to false, you need to call invalidateOptionsMenu() which will re-launch the menu by calling onPrepareOptionsMenu() again.

Try this code for making the menu items unvisible:

...
isdown = false;
invalidateOptionsMenu();
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