Question

I need to create a menu which opens a webview page or a simple page with images slide.

I’m more proficient in web programming, not so much in programming for Android. So if it is easier to do it in a WebView I will use it. I will use the images slide otherwise.

So for now, I need 2 items when I press the menu button of the phone. Upon clicking they should open 2 different links in the app (not in the browser).

I’ve done only menu.xml for now:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:id="@+id/menu_howto" android:title="@string/howto"
          android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_howto" />

    <item android:id="@+id/menu_about" android:title="@string/about"
          android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_info" />
</menu>

Answer 1

in your main class you must @override the menu like:-

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

and then to make the menu buttons clickable you have to add this after

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case R.id.exit:
            finish();
         return true;
        case R.id.loadanotherwebpage:
loadUrl("www.google.com"); 
// inside the menu button you don't need to call Super.loadUrl, LoadUrl its enough 
            return true;
        case R.id.share:
            share(); // here i'm calling the share method !
        default:
            return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}

edit : if you want to load the html file from assets file then do this

        super.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/index.html");

hope that what you asking for 🙂