Question

I am trying an option menu in a class that extends ListAcitivity. How do I add an option menu to this activity, so when I click on the option button an options menu appears at the bottom of the screen.

I searched online but most tutorials refer to this function onCreateOptionsMenu() which is part of Activity class and it does not seem to work in the subclass of ListActivity.

Answer 1

It is Java. ListActivity (and anything that extends it) inherits all of the features and functions of Activity.

Therefore, just overriding onCreateOptionsMenu will work the same.

Boilerplate code:

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

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
    case R.id.menu_item_id:
        // action
        break;
    }
    return true;
}

🙂