Detect click on Actionbar's Overflow menu button

Question

Can I detect click/tap on the menu button of action bar, i.e. used to show overflow menu items?

By default it opens up the list with one item \"Settings\". Here is t

Answer 1

By default clicking on the overflow button shows the options menu, so i believe you should manage to intercept the event, then do what you want by overriding Activity.onPrepareOptionsMenu

This was a little tricky since i couldn't find an id for overflow button, so i used this hack. In your Activity :

private boolean actionBarClicked = false;

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected (MenuItem item) {
    if (item.getId() == )
        actionBarClicked = true;
    return false; // Let default processing occur
}

@Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu (Menu menu) {
    if (actionBarClicked) {
        // Overflow button of ActionBar was clicked, do what you want here.
        actionBarClicked = false;
    }
    ...
}