Question

I’m having a rather odd issue where the menu for an activity works totally fine on real device but not on the emulator.

I tried launching one of my older projects in the emulator that I remember the menus working in, and it also failed. I suppose some sort of update has caused this?

The code is simple…

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuItem prefs = menu.add("Preferences");
    prefs.setIcon(R.drawable.gear_01);
    return true;
}

LogCat displays series of exceptions ultimately caused by:

E/AndroidRuntime(6714): Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: res/drawable-hdpi/ic_menu_more.png

This actually happens not only in my applications but on the home screen to.

Any ideas for solutions?

Answer 1

Its hard to find error in your code.
So try this.Create one Folder in res named menu.Put this xml inside this folder

Make Sure you have icon in your drawable names ic_new_game,ic_help

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="@+id/new_game"
      android:icon="@drawable/ic_new_game"
      android:title="@string/new_game"
      android:showAsAction="ifRoom"/>
<item android:id="@+id/help"
      android:icon="@drawable/ic_help"
      android:title="@string/help" />
</menu>

Override this method as you did

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