Question

There are just two forms i knew to retrieve resource values in xml files: ‘@’ for drawable resources and ‘?’ for theme resources.

Now i want to use ‘android.R.drawable.ic_menu_preferences’ for the icon used for option menu item ‘settings’. But this won’t work:

<item android:icon="@android.R.drawable/ic_menu_preferences">

This can be solved in code:

MenuItem settings;
settings.setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_menu_preferences);

But from dev guide, i knew that it is better to create menu item in xml.

Answer 1

use

<item android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_preferences">