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

When I used Android Studio to generate a generic app, the template code for onOptionsItemSelected() returns true if item consumed otherwise it passes the call onto the super class.

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
    // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
    // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
    int id = item.getItemId();

    //noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
    if (id == R.id.action_mymenuaction) {
        return true;
    }

    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}