Android - How to access actionbar's menu items in fragment class

Question

How should I access the actionbar\'s menu items in fragment ? I have tried this but nothing happened

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem          


        

Answer 1

Follow this steps:

• Add setHasOptionsMenu(true) method in your Fragment.

• Override onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) and onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) methods in your Fragment.

• Inside your onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) Activity's method, make sure you return false when the menu item action would be implemented in onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) Fragment's method.

Example:

Activity

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuInflater inflater = getSupportMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
    case R.id.activity_menu_item:
        // Do Activity menu item stuff here
        return true;
    case R.id.fragment_menu_item:
        // Not implemented here
        return false;
    default:
        break;
    }

    return false;
}

Fragment

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setHasOptionsMenu(true);
    ....
}

@Override
public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu,MenuInflater inflater) {
    // Do something that differs the Activity's menu here
    super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater);
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
    case R.id.activity_menu_item:
        // Not implemented here
        return false;
    case R.id.fragment_menu_item:
        // Do Fragment menu item stuff here
        return true;
    default:
        break;
    }

    return false;
}