How can I alter a MenuItem on the Options Menu on Android?

Question

I have an Options Menu on my Activity with an MenuItem \"Start\". When this MenuItem is selected I would like to alter the Menu so it

Answer 1

On Android 3.0 and higher, you should call invalidateOptionsMenu() to request that the system calls onPrepareOptionsMenu(). You can then modify the options menu in the method. You can check the Changing menu items at runtime section of the Android documentation here https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/menus#options-menu for more details.