Question

I’ve got a ActionBar in my application. I can see it, click on the item etc. But I can’t do anything because the program doesn’t recognize the item in my onOptionsItemSelected function.

public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case android.R.id.create_playlist:
        // ...
        return true;

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

The item create_playlist gives me this error :

create_playlist cannot be resolved or is not a field

Yet this item is defined in my actionbar_menu.xml, with this id. Tutorials I’ve found on the web use the same method and seem to work.
Does anyone know what could be happening here?

Answer 1

android.R.id.create_playlist

Shouldn’t that just be R.id.create_playlist (without the android. prefix)?