Question

in android development site, i saw the explanation of onOptionsItemSelected, on the return side, it said that:
boolean Return false to allow normal menu processing to proceed, true to consume it here.

Sorry for my dumb, can anyone illustrate what the sentence is explaining, should i return true or false in the normal situation?

Answer 1

You should return true if you process the menu item and return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item) if you don’t.

e.g.

public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item)
{
    switch (item.getItemId())
    {
        case R.id.option1:
            handleOption1();
            return true;
        case R.id.option2:
            handleOption2();
            return true;
        default:
            return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}