Overflow menu in footer in android

Question

I have created an Option menu and footer with 4 icons on it. I would like the overflow menu icon (Three dots icon) to be shown on the footer instead of top right? Is this possible?

If I put a over flow icon is it possible to access the menu.xml file onClick? if so how do I go about doing this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

First of all set activty theme to NoActionBar.

<style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar">
        <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
        <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>

Then create a Toolbar in XML and set layout_alignParentBottom true.

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize">

Then in onCreate catch the Toolbar and set as ActionBar

mToolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.homeToolbar);
setSupportActionBar(mToolbar);

Create a menu file in res/menu folder

Then inflate that menu in onCreateOptionsMenu.

Then override onOptionsItemSelected and do what you want with the items.