Detecting click in overflow menu in Android?

Question

Is there any option to detect a click in overflow menu?

I don't want to detect clicking in particular items.

Answer 1

Are you simply trying to detect when the options menu itself is made visible? If so, I believe the "onPrepareOptionsMenu" method on Activity is your best bet.

Prepare the Screen's standard options menu to be displayed. This is called right before the menu is shown, every time it is shown. You can use this method to efficiently enable/disable items or otherwise dynamically modify the contents.

The default implementation updates the system menu items based on the activity's state. Deriving classes should always call through to the base class implementation.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#onPrepareOptionsMenu(android.view.Menu)

Answer 2

As it was posted in this other question, you can do the following:

@Override
public boolean onMenuOpened(int featureId, Menu menu) {
    if(featureId == AppCompatDelegate.FEATURE_SUPPORT_ACTION_BAR){
        Toast.makeText(this, "OPEN", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
    return super.onMenuOpened(featureId, menu);
}

@Override
public void onPanelClosed(int featureId, Menu menu) {
    if(featureId == AppCompatDelegate.FEATURE_SUPPORT_ACTION_BAR){
        Toast.makeText(this, "CLOSE", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
    super.onPanelClosed(featureId, menu);
}

If you are inheriting from AppCompat. If not, the right constant to be used is Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR