Android: Showing Action Bar menu items depending on ViewPager

Question

I am having trouble getting the following piece of code to work out. I have a viewpager with 3 fragments, and I want a search icon to only show up on one. I s

Answer 1

invalidateOptionsMenu make the system calls the method onPrepareOptionsMenu, so you can override this method as follows:

public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
      int pageNum = getCurrentPage();
      if (pageNum == 1) {
         menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search).setVisible(true);

      }
      else {
         menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search).setVisible(false);
      }
   }

public void onPageSelected(int pageNum) {
    invalidateOptionsMenu();
}