How do I show icon in the Bar action when item is in overflow?

Question

I wanted the item called also to appear on your side your image:

The result I would expect would be this:

Activity code with help from @Alexandre Strevenski:

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.view.MenuItemCompat;
import android.support.v7.widget.ShareActionProvider;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

private ShareActionProvider mShareActionProvider;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main_activity_actions, menu);
        MenuItem shareItem = menu.findItem(R.id.acao4);
        mShareActionProvider = (ShareActionProvider)
                MenuItemCompat.getActionProvider(shareItem);
        mShareActionProvider.setShareIntent(getDefaultIntent());

        return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
    }

    private Intent getDefaultIntent() {
        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
        intent.setType("image/*");
        return intent;
    }
}

main_activity_actions.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:yourapp="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" >

    <item
        android:id="@+id/acao1"
        android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_delete"
        android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
        android:title="deletar"/>
    <item
        android:id="@+id/acao2"
        android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_add"
        android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
        android:title="adicionar"/>
    <item
        android:id="@+id/acao3"
        android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_camera"
        android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
        android:title="camera"/>

    <item
        android:id="@+id/acao4"
        android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_call"
        android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
        android:title="chamada"
        yourapp:actionProviderClass="android.support.v7.widget.ShareActionProvider"/>

</menu>

Note: I already used android:actionProviderClass="android.support.v7.widget.Shareactionprovider" and also not sure.

Error log:

Answer 1

If the idea and have icons in the menus of Overflow Menu and not with ActionProvider then you need to use Reflection to resolve, since icons are not displayed by default.

In this case, just implement the method onMenuOpened in his Activity and call the method setOptionalIconsVisible, which is privatedoMenuporReflection`:

@Override
public boolean onMenuOpened(int featureId, Menu menu) {
    if(featureId == Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR && menu != null){
        if(menu.getClass().getSimpleName().equals("MenuBuilder")){
            try{
                Method m = menu.getClass().getDeclaredMethod("setOptionalIconsVisible", Boolean.TYPE);
                m.setAccessible(true);
                m.invoke(menu, true);
            } catch(NoSuchMethodException e){
            } catch(Exception e){
                throw new RuntimeException(e);
            }
        }
    }

    return super.onMenuOpened(featureId, menu);
}

To be used in conjunction with ActionMode, the only change was to call the method for the Menu that is passed in the callback onCreateActionMode. The code would stand:

@Override
public boolean onCreateActionMode(ActionMode actionMode, Menu menu) {
    MenuInflater inflater = actionMode.getMenuInflater();

    inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_cab, menu);

    // Reaproveitando o método para habilitar os ícones.
    onMenuOpened(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR, menu);

    return true;
}

Of course I made a simplification to reuse the onMenuOpened, but the idea is to isolate the method and call in both methods, both in the onMenuOpened how much in the onCreateActionMode.

The configuration of MenuItem in xml remains the same:

<item android:id="@+id/menu_alarm"
      android:title="@string/action_alarm"
      android:icon="?attr/ic_action_alarm"
      appcompat:showAsAction="never"
      android:showAsAction="never"
/>

This is the solution that works, but in case in future versions of Android, come to change something in this class (Menu) or if you come to use the Toolbar, this solution will no longer work. Then you will have to adopt some contingency measure.

Answer 2

You can follow the example in this link:

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html#ActionProvider

XML would look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      xmlns:yourapp="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" >
    <item android:id="@+id/action_share"
          android:title="@string/share"
          yourapp:showAsAction="ifRoom"
          yourapp:actionProviderClass="android.support.v7.widget.ShareActionProvider"
          />
    ...
</menu>

Code example using Shareactionprovider:

private ShareActionProvider mShareActionProvider;

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main_activity_actions, menu);

    // Set up ShareActionProvider's default share intent
    MenuItem shareItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_share);
    mShareActionProvider = (ShareActionProvider)
            MenuItemCompat.getActionProvider(shareItem);
    mShareActionProvider.setShareIntent(getDefaultIntent());

    return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}

/** Defines a default (dummy) share intent to initialize the action provider.
  * However, as soon as the actual content to be used in the intent
  * is known or changes, you must update the share intent by again calling
  * mShareActionProvider.setShareIntent()
  */
private Intent getDefaultIntent() {
    Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    intent.setType("image/*");
    return intent;
}

Answer 3

First add the line below in your menunovo.XML

xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

second place the following attribute in your item

app:showAsAction="ifRoom"

beyond its icone.

in my test I did this: my menu2.xml:

<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.teste.MainActivity" 
xmlns:yourapp="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

>

<item
    android:id="@+id/action_settings"
    android:orderInCategory="100"
    android:title="@string/action_settings"
    app:showAsAction="ifRoom"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    />

 </menu>

my main got like this:

package com.example.teste;

import android.app.Actionbar; import android.os.Bundle; import android.support.v7.app.Actionbaractivity; import android.view.Menu; import android.view.Menuinflater; import android.view.Menuitem;

public class Mainactivity extends Actionbaractivity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

}




@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate the menu items for use in the action bar
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.main2, menu);
    MenuInflater inflater2 = getMenuInflater();
    inflater2.inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
    return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}


@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.
    int id = item.getItemId();
    if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
        return true;
    }
    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}

}

If you need anything else yell at me