Option Menu in Android

Creating an option menu

There are different kinds of menu in android.
Today i am gonna  create a option menu.

There are couple of ways of creating option menu.
One  is directly by java code and another is using XML.

But in my case i will use XML because it provides good graphical interface and its easy to handle in compare to java. So i create a new XML file.

Creating a mymenu.xml

mymenu.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >

    

    <item android:id="@+id/item1" 

        android:title="Option 1" 

        android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_compass"/>

   

    <item android:id="@+id/item2 "

        android:title="Option 2" 

        android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_call"/>

</menu>

mymenu.xml

Then i go to my main java file and i need to respond the menu by overriding the onCreateOptionMenu .

i write this code under that override function :

@Override

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();

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

return true;

}

Overriding the onCreateOptionsMenu

Then i run my project and it appears like this: