Question

In many applications you can access preferences, settings and what not via the Android Menu.

I want to be able to link to an activity in the App that I created.

Any help and/or code would be much appreciated.

-EltMrx

Answer 1

You have to override onOptionsItemSelected method in your Activity, which is called when user clicks on the item in Options menu. In the method you can check what item has been clicked.

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch(item.getItemId()) {
    case R.id.menu_item1:
        Intent intent = new Intent(this, ActivityForItemOne.class);
        this.startActivity(intent);
        break;
    case R.id.menu_item2:
        // another startActivity, this is for item with id "menu_item2"
        break;
    default:
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }

    return true;
}

There is also onContextItemSelected method which works similary, but for Context menu (I’m not sure, what menu you mean).

More information at
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/menus.html

Class Intent – Action and Category constants http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html

Action element
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/action-element.html

Intents and Intent Filters
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/intents/intents-filters.html

Hope this solve your problem.

CREDITS TO ICEMAN, How to call Activity from a menu item in Android?