How do I access menu items?

Question

So I\'m trying to grab my menu items off the ActionBar and set them into some variables to use later. Below is some basic test code that tries to set the variable during the

Answer 1

MenuItem.getItem(index) take index of the menu item instead of id of menu item so use MenuItem.findItem which take menu item id as:

 mRefresh = menu.findItem(R.id.refresh); //item id
  OR
 mRefresh = menu.getItem(0); //item index

Answer 2

getItem(int) returns a MenuItem at a specific index, while findItem(int) returns a MenuItem corresponding to the resource ID that is given. Call findItem instead of getItem.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/Menu.html#findItem(int)