How to create Android Menu

In android application menu is one of important of user interface​ entity which provided some action. In this case we will discussing about how to create menu in android application. In this article we will create menu and click on it will show message.


1. We create new project with eclipses File--> New --> Android Project it will give you default activity.
2. Go to folder /res you will saw folder name call /menu directory. Open this folder it contain main.xml file.
3. Open on it menu.xml  type follow with this code, In this case each menu items I will put title and an icon. I will create 4 menu option.

- Save
- Search
- Delete
- Share

4. Copy all icon to folder /drawable-hdpi folder just go to folder of your project

Follow with this code in main.xml on folder menu

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    tools:context="com.example.menuexaple.MainActivity" >

    <item
        android:id="@+id/menusave"
        android:icon="@drawable/save"
        android:title="Save"/>
    <item
        android:id="@+id/menusearch"
        android:icon="@drawable/search"
        android:title="Search"/>
    <item
        android:id="@+id/menushare"
        android:icon="@drawable/share"
        android:title="Share"/>
    <item
        android:id="@+id/menudelete"
        android:icon="@drawable/removeicon"
        android:title="Delete"/>

</menu>



5. Now open MainActivity.java class and follow with this code and all so we use switching case for all menu button action.

package com.example.menuexaple;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
// Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
// automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
// as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
switch (item.getItemId()) {

case R.id.menusave:
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Saved", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
.show();
return true;
case R.id.menusearch:
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Searching",
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
return true;
case R.id.menushare:
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Shared",
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
return true;
case R.id.menudelete:
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Deleted",
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
return true;

default:
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}

}
}

6. Run our application just right click on project folder choose Run As Android Application


Out program