Question

In Android, I create my menu item like this?

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

        menu.add(0, 0, 0, "Menu1");
        menu.add(0, 1, 0, "Menu2");
        return true;
}

How can I set all the menu item disabled programmatically (in another part of the code in my activity, not in onCreateOptionsMenu() method itself)?

Answer 1

add returns a MenuItem (which you can also retrieve from the Menu object), that you can store away into a variable.

MenuItem menu1;

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    menu1 = menu.add(0, 0, 0, "Menu1");
}

public void someOtherMethod() {
    if(menu1 != null) {
        // if it's null, options menu hasn't been created, so nevermind
        menu1.setEnabled(false);
    }
}