onCreateOptionsMenu is never called

Question

I am having some trouble getting an options menu working in Android. I have built apps before, and they all worked fine, but now the menu just doesn\'t pop up.

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Answer 1

I was having the same problem (menu not showing up, onCreateOptionsMenu not being called).

If you are calling this within a fragment, you need to override public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) not public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu). Fragments do not use the latter, so they will never even call it.

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