ShareActionProvider does not work when showAsAction=ifRoom
android, shareactionprovider
Solution
The reason of "non-clickable" shareAction button is missing intent for your `actionProvider` (that is an intent for which Android could find a match). Try setting it via
mShareActionProvider.setShareIntent(youIntentWithAction);
before you return from `onCreateOptionsMenu`
Update I believe it works correctly for the case showAsAction="never" only because intent is correctly set by the time you open overflow options (those marked with "never") and click you `shareItem` and this does not happen when you have it in the action bar. One guess is that you set your action intent in implementation of `onPrepareOptionsMenu` (if you have one), which will be only called when you open `overflow` items (+ once during startup) and not for actionBar items.
one important thing is: `onOptionsItemSelected` is NOT triggered for menuItem with actionProvider, if it is shown in the action bar (i.e. actionProvider will still trigger `onOptionsItemSelected` on user action if this actionProvider is in overflow menu).
That might explain why you don't have a chance to dynamically `setShareIntent` for your actionProvider when `showAsAction="ifRoom"`.
If you still want `setShareIntent` in `onOptionsItemSelected`, you may need to do it when handling selection of another (non-actionProvier) item.
Let me know if that helps.
Problem
I'm creating a small application and tried to provide a Share button on the ActionBar. The relevant code looks as below: Manifest ``` <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="14" android:targetSdkVersion="18" /> ``` Menu Item ``` <item android:id="@+id/shareMenuItem" android:showAsAction="never" android:title="@string/shareAction" android:orderInCategory="100" android:actionProviderClass="android.widget.ShareActionProvider"></item> ``` Activity ``` public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu); MenuItem shareItem = menu.findItem(R.id.shareMenuItem); mShareActionProvider = (ShareActionProvider) shareItem.getActionProvider(); return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu); } ``` Everything works fine in this scenario. I wanted to show the Share button on the ActionBar and changed showAsAction="ifRoom". The Share button now shows up in the ActionBar, but its not clickable. I tried to change other menu items to ifRoom, and they are working fine. Don't really understand why Share button alone is not working correctly. Any help/suggestions are appreciated!