Add toggle button to the menu to stop and start service

Question

I am trying to enable the user to stops and starts service which I am implementing from the Menu where the text is will be changed when he clicks it so I want to add T

Answer 1

As mentioned above, you can't add toggle button to the menu. You can use the android:checkable property in your menu item to handle the two states.

Something like:

Menu:

Activity:

private boolean isChecked = false;

@Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuItem checkable = menu.findItem(R.id.checkable_menu);
    checkable.setChecked(isChecked);
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case R.id.checkable_menu:
            isChecked = !item.isChecked();
            item.setChecked(isChecked);
            return true;
        default:
            return false;
    }
}

PS: Copied the code from here.

Or you can just update your item icon on click event to show the two states with item.setIcon(yourDrawable));