Menu item with icon android

How can I create an android menu item using android setting icon

Can you please tell me how can I create an android menu item using android setting icon?

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Here is a list of the standard icons. I don’t see a «settings» icon. Perhaps you mean «Preferences» ( ic_menu_preferences )?

You can set the icon programmatically like this:

You can also set it in your xml layout like this:

You can see all the icons in the android SDK forder:

and then get a reference to them with:

just like it was your drawable.

Add a new Vector Asset.

1. Click on the icon to change it.

1. Select the icon you want (e.g. search for «setting»).

Adjust other settings.

Use that new Vector Asset in your xml.

If you want to handle the event, just try this on your activity

And in your menu folder use something like this:

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how to put icons on menu_item in android apps?

Why the icons didn’t appear when i used the menu.xml below . Please help me.

and when used the next attribute it shows that there is error in the app. : the window says that the project contains error(s),fix it before the its running or something like that.

and the code is:

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I’ll try to answer this, but so far the question is not 100% clear to me. Based on the comments, it seems you wish to know how to combine icons with text in menu item.

For that you have provided the answer yourself in your question: the 3-rd item contains what you need. If you wish to group items in a menu item block, then you can use groups as you did, but specifically for your example, the group is point-less. Something like below will suffice (running on a Motorola Defy 2.3.6 and on Nexus 4):

In your Activity you will have (suppose menu is in /res/menu/entry.xml ):

Now, to go back to the menu item general discussion: these visual components have been replaced by ActionBar — it is more friendly, more straight-forward when it comes to expose the content/app-hierarchy and it is sexy! 🙂

To dive into development, you can check this Android developers blogs, «Goodbye to MenuItem». For more development details check the developer section. From programming perspective it’s not that much of big deal as the action bar components are developed with menu items in xml. You just need to provide more XML attributes.

Ex.: Only the above xml changes to:

And the Activity code remains as it is.

Note that I have added only android:showAsAction=»always|withText» .

The fun part is that nothing changes on Motorola 2.3.6 (since ActionBar was added in API level 11), but on Nexus you’ll notice the top action bar has the icon on top. Previously, it had a 3-dots and the user had to tap on them in order to view the action.

If you wish to have the action bar in api-level below 11, I strongly recommend using Sherlock ActionBar.

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Android Options Menu Icon – Adding Icon to Menu Item

Hi and welcome to another tutorial from Codingdemos, in this tutorial you will learn how to create android options menu icon. If you are new to the Android options menu, then I suggest you watch the tutorial that I did on the channel that shows you how to do it.

By the end of this article, we will have an app that looks like this. (Large preview)

In this tutorial we will be using the following:

– Android studio version 2.3.3
– Android emulator Nexus 5X with API 24
– Minimum SDK API 16

1- Open up Android Studio and create a new project and give it a name, in our case we’ve named it (OptionsMenuIcon), choose API 16 as the minimum SDK, then choose a blank activity and click “Finish” and wait for Android Studio to build your project.

2- To be able to use a toolbar, we need to change the parent them. Open styles.xml file and change the parent theme from parent=»Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar» to parent=»Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar»

3- Open activity_main.xml file and add the toolbar

4- Let’s create a menu file that will have the menu items, right click on res folder → New → Android resource file , give the file a name and select Menu from the Resource type dropdown list.

How to create menu folder and file in Android studio. (Large preview)

How to create a resource file in Android studio. (Large preview)

5- Next we need to look for icons that we can use them for an android menu item, thankfully android studio can help us to get those icons that we need. Click res → New → Vector Asset . Choose the icon that you want by clicking on the android icon, click “Next” button and then click “Finish”.

6- Now we can add android menu items with icons, we will have 4 menu items. 1 menu item will be the root while the other 3 menu items will be grouped under a single Menu .

7- Open MainActivity.java file to declare the toolbar and give the toolbar the ability to have those options menu show up.

8- Let’s create options menu by overriding onCreateOptionsMenu and inflating the menu file that we created earlier

9- To be able to respond to user action, we need to override onOptionsItemSelected , so that whenever they tap on any of those menu items we show an android toast message.

Compile and run the app; you will see android options menu appear in the Android toolbar with menu items. When you tap on any of those menu items an android toast message appears on the screen. The source code for options menu tutorial is available on Github

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Android menu item with both icon and text together when showAsAction is never

Hi, how can I make my menu items have icons as well when showAsAction is never ?

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Use android:actionLayout in menu item tag to specify custom lyout (icon with text). Menu item will look like:

Use this menu file, it worked fine for me.

In createOptionsMenu, set the icon and text to MenuItem.

Elaborate the problem a little more.

Just change root item of Harry Mad answer

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How to display menu item with icon and text in AppCompatActivity

I tried different combinations in xml file:

I tried to set it programmaticly

However, Only Icon appears. And there is planty of room, cause I did not set toolbar title. Removing menues and replasing them with button inside toolbar is not sutable.
How to display text?

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Hope this will help you

You need to add tools:context=»your class» to menu tag

menu.xml

Override onCreateOptionsMenu() Method

You should write tool:context to menu tag then run you will get icons before your text.

Adding to the answer from dev_ry, there is a much smoother way without using reflection by just casting and suppressing the restricted API warning:

You can use following code for establishing your purpose. No need to make it programmatic. You can trick in menu.xml file.

menu.xml

In above code, we’ve used menu inside of item . In inside menu, we’ve defined our overflow menu which we want with icon. Just remember to use app:showAsAction=»always» in outside item tag.

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