Programmatically configure action bar menu item in Android
I have an action bar with a menu item in the bar. When I click on the refresh icon, I have a method showing a progress bar.
I would like to do this when loading this activity. Hence, I tried calling the update icon element programmatically:
onOptionsItemSelected(menu.findItem(R.id.action_Refresh));
I call this after the menu is created.
But this gives a null pointer exception to load my data. If I click the Refresh button, it works fine, but if I call it programmatically, I get an error.
Here's what I have:
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
this.optionsMenu = menu;
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
onOptionsItemSelected(menu.findItem(R.id.action_Refresh));
return true;
}
@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item)
{
switch (item.getItemId())
{
case R.id.action_about:
aboutapp();
return true;
case R.id.action_Refresh:
Log.e("REfressh","Clicked");
Mapsthree.refreshValue = 0;
timer = new Timer();
timerMethod();
setRefreshActionButtonState(true);
displayView(1);
return true;
default:
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
}
private void timerMethod()
{
timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask()
{
@Override
public void run()
{
updateProgressBar();
}
}, 0, 800);
}
private void updateProgressBar()
{
runOnUiThread(new Runnable()
{
public void run()
{
if (Maps.refreshValue == 1)
{
setRefreshActionButtonState(false);
timer.purge();
timer.cancel();
}
}
});
}
public void setRefreshActionButtonState(final boolean refreshing)
{
if (optionsMenu != null)
{
final MenuItem refreshItem = optionsMenu.findItem(R.id.action_Refresh);
if (refreshItem != null)
{
if (refreshing)
{
refreshItem.setActionView(R.layout.actionbar_indeterminate_progress);
}
else
{
refreshItem.setActionView(null);
}
}
}
}
Can a menu item be called programmatically? if so, how?
Thank!
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Why are you calling him from onCreateOptionsMenu
?
You can write the code to load in a method, onCreate
or onResume
depending on the requirement:
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle arg0) {
super.onCreate(arg0);
//whatever you are doing
//now code for refresh
Log.e("REfressh","First time");
Mapsthree.refreshValue = 0;
timer = new Timer();
timerMethod();
setRefreshActionButtonState(true);
displayView(1);
}
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You can try this
to get a link to the menu class opMenu
inside your activity here:
Menu opMenu;
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
opMenu= menu;
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
onOptionsItemSelected(opMenu.findItem(R.id.action_Refresh));
return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);;
}
Use opMenu.findItem()
to trigger push
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// check is assignable to menu item implementation
if(menuItem !=null
&& MenuItemImpl.class.isAssignableFrom(menuItem.getClass())){
// if so cast
MenuItemImpl impl = (MenuItemImpl)menuItem;
// invoke listener
impl.invoke();
}
which is equal to implementation;
public boolean invoke() {
if (mClickListener != null && mClickListener.onMenuItemClick(this)) {
return true;
}
if (mIntent != null) {
mContext.startActivity(mIntent);
return true;
}
return false;
}
you can always use reflections :)
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