Question

Begginer to Android development. I am developing a application, which have three different tabs. I want to have common menu options. Problem is when menu item is clicked nothing happens. It works when i moved them to activity for first tab.
Here is my TabActivity menu implementation.

@Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        MenuInflater menuInflater = getMenuInflater();
        menuInflater.inflate(R.menu.menu, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onMenuItemSelected(int featureId, MenuItem item) {
        switch(item.getItemId()) {
            case R.id.feedbackEmail:
                showDialog(FEEDBACK_DIALOG_ID);
                return true;
            case R.id.about:
                AboutBox.Show(this);
                return true;
            case R.id.Help:
                HelpBox.Show(this);
                return true;
            case R.id.Preferences:
                Intent intent = new Intent(this, Preferences.class);
                startActivity(intent);
                return true;
            case R.id.powerUsage:
                startActivity(intentPowerUsage);
                return true;
            case R.id.close:
                Intent homeIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
                homeIntent.addCategory( Intent.CATEGORY_HOME );
                homeIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
                Preferences.cancelNotification(this);
                startActivity(homeIntent);
                return true;
        }
        return super.onMenuItemSelected(featureId, item);
    }

Here is my menu.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:id="@+id/feedbackEmail"
          android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_dialog_email"
          android:title="@string/feedback" />
    <item android:id="@+id/Help"
          android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_help"
          android:title="@string/menu_help" />
    <item android:id="@+id/Preferences"
          android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_preferences"
          android:title="@string/preferences" />
    <item android:id="@+id/about"
          android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_info_details"
          android:title="@string/menu_about" />
    <item android:id="@+id/powerUsage"
          android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_today"
          android:title="@string/powerUsage" />
    <item android:id="@+id/close"
          android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_close_clear_cancel"
          android:title="@string/exit" />
</menu>

Answer 1

You can do in like this,

Create an Activity named BaseActivity and put this Menu code in that BaseActivity, then extends all the Activity that you want to have menu. You can check this answer for further reference that overrides onKeyDown() for every Activity.