Popup menu on click of a button in action Bar

android, android-actionbar, popup

Solution

I found a solution to this. Instead to using the menu XML to inflate the popup menu, I made a XML layout file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/container"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#8b8989"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="10dip" >

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/menuItem1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dip"
    android:text="@string/menu1" />

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/menuItem2"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dip"
    android:text="@string/menu2" />
<TextView
    android:id="@+id/menuItem3"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dip"
    android:text="@string/menu3" />
</LinearLayout>

and i changed the onClick method

public void showPopup(View v) {
    LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) MainActivity.this
                .getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
        PopupWindow pw = new PopupWindow(inflater.inflate(
                R.layout.overflow_layout, null, false), 300, 400, true);
        pw.showAtLocation(findViewById(R.id.container), Gravity.CENTER, 0,
                0);
}

This solved the issue

Problem

I am trying to implement an action bar in which one of the buttons on click shows a popup menu. Here's the menu. XML (menu items in the action bar) ``` <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" > <item android:id="@+id/search" android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_search" android:orderInCategory="0" android:showAsAction="always" android:title="@string/menu_search"/> <item android:id="@+id/refresh" android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_refresh" android:orderInCategory="1" android:showAsAction="always" android:title="@string/menu_refresh"/> <Item android:id="@+id/popup" android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_search" android:onClick="showPopup" android:orderInCategory="1" android:showAsAction="always" android:title="@string/menu_search" /> ``` I wish to show a popup menu on the click of the item having id "@+id/popup". here is the XML for the popup menu ``` <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" > <item android:id="@+id/item1" android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_search" android:orderInCategory="0" android:showAsAction="always" android:title="@string/menu_search"/> <item android:id="@+id/item2" android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_search" android:orderInCategory="1" android:showAsAction="always" android:title="@string/menu_search"/> ``` here is the onClick method for the button ``` public void showPopup(View v) { PopupMenu popup = new PopupMenu(this, v); MenuInflater inflater = popup.getMenuInflater(); inflater.inflate(R.menu.overflow, popup.getMenu()); popup.show(); } ``` And the problem is that no popup shows up on click of that button. Need help folks.

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