How to get/set action event in Android actionbar switch

Question

I found this post How to add a switch to android action bar? and this works for me. But I can\'t get its event. I\'m using appcompat, and I used app namespace for actionLay

Answer 1

I found my error. I have to use

View view = MenuItemCompat.getActionView(menuItem);

extra line in onCreateOptionsMenu to find out the switch button . Here is my full method

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);

        MenuItem menuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.myswitch);
        View view = MenuItemCompat.getActionView(menuItem);
        Switch switcha = (Switch) view.findViewById(R.id.switchForActionBar);
        switcha.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new CompoundButton.OnCheckedChangeListener() {

            @Override
            public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton buttonView, boolean isChecked) {
                // do anything here on check changed 
            }
        });
        return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}