Forcing Overflow menu button on Android

android, android-actionbar, android-fragments, android-menu

Solution

To force into the overflow menu do this:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
   menu.add(0, 2, 0, "Item 1").setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_COLLAPSE_ACTION_VIEW);

   return true;
}

`SHOW_AS_ACTION_COLLAPSE_ACTION_VIEW` will force the item into either:

Android 3.0 + : The ActionBar as an overflow Android 2.3 - : The menu button

If you are wanting to recreate the menu you will need to call `invalidateOptionsMenu();` This will re-create from `OnCreateOptionsMenu`.

Problem

I am developing an application for Android 4.0.3. I have multiple fragments and I have one menu item displayed on each of them. I want to have an overflow menu button that will have 2 menu items. How do I force the appearance of the overflow menu and add menu items to it ? I am adding menu items by calling the onCreateOptionsMenu function in each fragment. Any and all help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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