I am trying to have a options menu in Android Fragments. ActionBar
options menu are not displaying in my Fragments.
Here is my code and I have both onCreateOptionsMenu()
and onOptionSelected()
function. My code doesn't shows any error. But options menu are not displaying.
package org.reachout;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
import org.general.R;
public class ViewMessageFragment extends Fragment {
/* (non-Javadoc)
* @see android.support.v4.app.Fragment#onCreateView(android.view.LayoutInflater, android.view.ViewGroup, android.os.Bundle)
*/
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
Bundle savedInstanceState) {
if (container == null) {
// We have different layouts, and in one of them this
// fragment's containing frame doesn't exist. The fragment
// may still be created from its saved state, but there is
// no reason to try to create its view hierarchy because it
// won't be displayed. Note this is not needed -- we could
// just run the code below, where we would create and return
// the view hierarchy; it would just never be used.
return null;
}
return (LinearLayout)inflater.inflate(R.layout.viewmessages_tab_fragment_layout, container, false);
}
@Override
public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater);
inflater.inflate(R.menu.askexperts_menu, menu);
}
@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
// handle item selection
switch (item.getItemId()) {
case R.id.action_settings:
// do s.th.
return true;
default:
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
}
}
You need to call
setHasOptionsMenu(true)
inonCreate()
.For backwards compatibility it's better to place this call as late as possible at the end of
onCreate()
or even later inonActivityCreated()
or something like that.See: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Fragment.html#setHasOptionsMenu(boolean)