PopupMenu Item Icons

Question

I have a problem with my app. I need to show a PopupMenu and I need every item in this menu to contain text and an image. The images should be displayed to the

Answer 1

Unfortunately PopupMenu does not support icons by default.

Alternatives include creating your own class which extends PopupMenu or more simply switching to using an ActionBar. There is a GitHub repository for an Android Compatibility popup menu with icons, which might be helpful.

Of the three options I would suggest going with the ActionBar because android seem to be heavily pushing the use of the ActionBar as best practice over the traditional header menus in their guides.

I hope this helps.