Question

I am trying to use the menu button on the phone but for some reason it is not working? There is no error but the when I press menu it does nothing. I am running a 2.3.3 Android emulator.

Here is my Activity:

public boolean onCreatOptionsMenu(Menu menu){

MenuInflater Inflater = getMenuInflater();
Inflater.inflate(R.menu.main_menu, menu);
return true;
}
@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item){
    switch (item.getItemId()){          
        case R.id.MenuClass:
            startActivity (new Intent ("com.clayton.calendar.TOCLASS"));
    return true;

    case R.id.MenuFriends:
        startActivity (new Intent ("com.clayton.calendar.TOFRIENDS"));
    return true;

    default:
    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);

}
}

Here is my XML:

<item
    android:id="@+id/MenuClass"
    android:title="Open Classes"/>
<item
    android:id="@+id/MenuFriends"
    android:title="Open Friends"/>

Answer 1

Try this:

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

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item){
    switch (item.getItemId()){          
        case R.id.MenuClass:
            startActivity (new Intent ("com.clayton.calendar.TOCLASS"));
            return true;

        case R.id.MenuFriends:
            startActivity (new Intent ("com.clayton.calendar.TOFRIENDS"));
            return true;

        default:
            return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }   
}

(Don’t put this inside the onCreate() method)