Question

I’ve implemented PopupMenu for a menu that is displayed after pressing an item on the ActionBar. I am wondering what alternatives there are for SDK versions before 11?

Possibly use something resembling a context menu. What are your thoughts?

My current implementation though, is to load a new Activity with the menu items.

Answer 1

As @sastraxi suggested, a good solution is using an AlertDialog with CHOICE_MODE_SINGLE.

AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(MyAndroidAppActivity.this);
builder.setTitle("Pick color");
builder.setItems(R.array.colors, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
           public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
           // The 'which' argument contains the index position
           // of the selected item
       }
});
builder.setInverseBackgroundForced(true);
builder.create();
builder.show();

And the strings.xml file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string-array name="colors">
        <item >blue</item>
        <item >white</item>
    </string-array>
</resources>

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