Should “android: onOptionsItemSelected” return true or false

Question

In onOptionsItemSelected... I saw some code that are different in the switch block.

Case 1 (Normally seen)

public boolean onOptionsI         


        

Answer 1

I just had the problem that my

getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

was not working. When touching the back button it would be highlighted but nothing happened.

It took me a while to figure out that this was the return of true.

In my opinion the best solution with less code duplication would be the following:

public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
   switch (item.getItemId()) {
       case MENU_NEW_GAME:
           newGame();
           break;
       default:
           return false;
   }
   return true;
}