Unable to override onCreateOptionsMenu in ListFragment

Question

I created an app that supports both phone and tablet version so i use the android-support-v4.jar library.

My activity extends the ListFragment and I tried to overri

Answer 1

Had the same problem, but it was because I used the wrong onCreateOptionsMenu method in my Fragment!

boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) is only for Activities.

@Override //For Activities
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { 
...

Had to move it to the activity class containing the Fragment.

Fragment have their own: void onCreateOptionsMenu (Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater)

@Override //For Fragments.
public void onCreateOptionsMenu (Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater){
...

Creating an Options Menu: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/menus.html