Question

I can’t resolve this problem for 3 days. I have simple XML resource for menu

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:id="@+id/categoryEditButton"
          android:title="@string/edit"
          android:icon="@drawable/edit" />
    <item android:id="@+id/categoryMoveUpButton"
          android:title="@string/move_up"
          android:icon="@drawable/up" />
    <item android:id="@+id/categoryMoveDownButton"
          android:title="@string/move_down"
          android:icon="@drawable/down" />
    <item android:id="@+id/categoryDeleteButton"
          android:title="@string/delete"
          android:icon="@drawable/trash" />
</menu>

I want to receive List<MenuItem> after parsing of this XML:

public class MenuItem { 
    private CharSequence text;
    private Drawable image;
    private int actionTag;

    //... getters and setters ...
}

I need this for non-standard manipulations with MenuItems and can’t work with this Resourse with standard methods like:

...

MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.some_menu, menu);

...

Can anybody help me with this? Thanks.

Answer 1

You can easily change menu items at runtime.

Update after comment:

1. Parse XML to get resource IDs and resource types (images, strings, drawables, etc..)

2. Access resources via Resources class. Every resource type has different method to access it.