android menu code not working

Question

I have been trying to figure out why my boolean is not changing when I press the button, when I changed it manually it worked, but it doesn\'t do any thing. I have tried to

Answer 1

In res folder create one folder menu like drawable

Create new xml file optionmenu.xml in that folder.

In onCreate method write this code....

setOptionMenu(R.menu.optionmenu);

and in overide method of Menu write this code.....

@Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem menu) {
        switch (menu.getItemId()) {
        case R.id.menuitem:
            startActivity(new Intent(this, Prefs.class));
            break;

case R.id.menuitem1:
            startActivity(new Intent(this, Prefs1.class));
            break;
        default:
            break;
        }

        return true;
    }