Question

I am trying to display a menu item named “share” by clicking the menu button.
now i need to create a submenu item for this share menu item.
The sub menu item should be visible when the share menu item is clicked alternatively (when clicked first time becomes visible next time invisible and so on.).
I found few solutions which are displaying the sub menuitems but those are being displayed along with the menu item.

This is my code for creating menus

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu m) {

    m.add(1,1,0,"one").setIcon(R.drawable.icon);
    m.add(1,2,0,"two").setIcon(R.drawable.icon);
    m.add(1,3,0,"three").setIcon(R.drawable.icon);
    m.add(1,4,0,"four").setIcon(R.drawable.icon);
    m.getItem(0).setVisible(false);
    m.getItem(1).setVisible(false);
    return true;
}

and my onPrepareOptionsMenu()

public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu m) {
    if(isvisible)
    {
    isvisible = false;
     m.getItem(0).setVisible(true);

    m.getItem(1).setVisible(true);


}
else{
    isvisible = true;
    m.getItem(0).setVisible(false);

    m.getItem(1).setVisible(false);

}


    return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(m);

}

I need the remaining two items to be shown when i click on the menu item rather than on the menu button.
Can anyone suggest me please

Answer 1

override the below method:

@Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
}

The above method is called every time before the menu is shown.

Here you can maintain a bool and hide the submenu depending upon the condition of your check.

EDIT:

By default set bool to false and on false show the menu and set the bool to true and on next call check this bool and if it is true, set it false and make the menu invisible.use this line to make the menu visible or invisible:

menu.getItem(index).getSubMenu().getItem(index).setVisible(true);
Store the bool in sharedpreference.