In example explains how to create Popup menu in android. Popup menu is used to display the global actions. Popup menu is an overflow menu like Spinner actions. PopupMenu is available from API level 11 (Android 3.0).
activity_main.xml
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#fcfcfc" >
<Button
android:id="@+id/btn_click"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="10dp"
android:background="#176CEC"
android:text="SHOW POPUP"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
android:textColor="#fff"
android:textStyle="bold" />
</RelativeLayout>
popup_menu.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="@+id/item_movies"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
android:title="Movies"
android:visible="true"/>
<item
android:id="@+id/item_music"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
android:title="Music"
android:visible="true"/>
<item
android:id="@+id/item_comedy"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
android:title="Comedy"
android:visible="true"/>
</menu>
PopMenuActivity.java
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.PopupMenu;
import android.widget.PopupMenu.OnMenuItemClickListener;
import android.widget.Toast;
public class PopMenuActivity extends Activity implements OnMenuItemClickListener {
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
findViewById(R.id.btn_click).setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View view) {
PopupMenu popupMenu = new PopupMenu(PopMenuActivity.this, view);
popupMenu.setOnMenuItemClickListener(PopMenuActivity.this);
popupMenu.inflate(R.menu.popup_menu);
popupMenu.show();
}
});
}
public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) {
switch (item.getItemId()) {
case R.id.item_comedy:
Toast.makeText(this, "Comedy Clicked", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
return true;
case R.id.item_movies:
Toast.makeText(this, "Movies Clicked", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
return true;
case R.id.item_music:
Toast.makeText(this, "Music Clicked", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
return true;
}
}
}
Output
How can I make this work for lower API. My app is for android 2.3 API 9. Please help. Thanks
i want popmenu show with icon and also source code to change the icon of menu item at runtime…becoz i use menu as off on service so on off change icon and On change another icon
vry nice article!
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