options-menu

I want to create a custom OptionsMenu in my application. The default OptionsMenu display only three items in one row. Now i want to display five to six items having only icons. Also i want to change the background color of the OptionsMenu but not getting the appropriate way of doing this. If it is possible then please let me know about it. Macarse Short answer As an user it bothers me when the application changes my android's widgets. I wouldn't recommend changing that and android doesn't provide a way to do it. Long answer Even though Android doesn't provide a way to customize that you can

I have a working SearchView which expands in my OptionsMenu when the user taps on the search icon. However it only expands within the available space among the other OptionsMenu icons. On a wide screen this is fine, but with a narrow space there is only room to show 5-10 charaters in the search box. I want it to overlay the other icons such as it does for the Android Contacts app. Currently, I'm building with targetSdkVersion = 17. Hopefully I'm missing something simple :) (Note added later: the only solution I've found workable so far is to hide all the menu icons when I want to expand the

I'm following a book on Android Development to get myself started writing my first real app. I got up to the point where I'm making an options menu for one of my activities. The menu shows up, but the corresponding icon of the menu item refuses to display. Here is the code for the menu: ReminderListActivity @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu); MenuInflater mi = getMenuInflater(); mi.inflate(R.menu.list_menu, menu); return true; } res/menu/list_menu.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com

I want to create an intent that starts a new activity once a Menu Item is clicked, but I'm not sure how to do this. I've been reading through the android documentation, but my implementation isn't correct..and some guidance in the right direction would help. I've listed my code below and commented out my problem areas, I think I'm invoking the wrong method. package com.jbsoft.SimpleFlashlight; import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Intent; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.*; import android.view.MenuItem.OnMenuItemClickListener; import android.widget.Button; import