Android Menus - Summarized

This blog will be a kind of reminder about Android menus. I will try to summarize as much as possible. I will focus on what they are and how we implement them.

Menus can contain group or a submenu.

Group

You can have checkbox or radio button behavior by settingcheckableBehavior of group item.

• single Only one item from the group can be checked (radio buttons)
• all All items can be checked (checkboxes)
• none No items are checkable

By using group , you can;

• Show or hide all items with setGroupVisible()
• Enable or disable all items with setGroupEnabled()
• Specify whether all items are checkable with setGroupCheckable()

You can see group example in Option Menu as Option 1 & Option 2.

Submenu

You can create a submenu by adding menu item in your current menu.xml.

You can see submenu example in Option Menu as File — New & Open

There are 3 menu options;

• Option Menu
• Contextual Menu | Floating Context Menu — Contextual Action Mode
• Popup Menu

Option Menu

Xml

Code

Contextual Menu

Floating Context Menu

Xml

Code

We have to register our views which we want to show floating menu when they are long pressed.

Contextual Action Mode

Xml

Code

Popup Menu

Xml

Code

To get more details;

Menus | Android Developers