menu directory is missing

Question

I\'m a very new programmer in Android. I\'m trying to define an action overflow button in my app. From what I\'ve read it involves modifying the menu.xml file.

Answer 1

You can create a menu dir in the res/ folder. Right click on res in the project view in Android Studio and click new -> "Android Resource Directory". Then select menu under "Resource Type". You can then add a file to that new res/menu directory that contains your menu items like this (res/menu/main_menu.xml)

And get sure to override the onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) in the MainActivity class like this:

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