Question

I’m using ActionBarSherlock and then onOptionsItemSelected to start a new activity when a specific menu item has been clicked. The code worked properly before adding ABS, and now I get case expressions must be constant expressions error on case.

@Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(com.actionbarsherlock.view.MenuItem item) 
    {
        switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case R.id.about: //error
            startActivity(new Intent(this, AboutActivity.class));
            break;
        case R.id.feedback: //error
            //launch activity
            break;

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

The same code worked fine before adding ActionBarSherlock.

Answer 1

I’ve replaced the switch/case statement with if/else. You can just click on switch and then press CTRL+1 if you’re in Eclipse.