Android Tutorial

By : Ketan Bhimani

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to provide additional controls, or to configure options. The

OptionsMenu control can contain icons, submenus, and keyboard

shortcuts.

An options menu.

For an options menu to show when a user

presses the Menu button on their device,

you need to override the implementation

of onCreateOptionsMenu() in your Activity.

Here is a sample implementation that gives

the user three menu items to choose from:

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(
android.view.Menu menu)
{
super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
menu.add(“Forms”)
.setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_menu_edit)
.setIntent(new Intent(this,
FormsActivity.class));
menu.add(“Indicators”)
.setIntent(new Intent(this,
IndicatorsActivity.class))
.setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_menu_info_details);
menu.add(“Containers”)
.setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_menu_view)
.setIntent(new Intent(this, ContainersActivity.class));
return true;
}

For each of the items that are added, we also set a built-in icon

resource and assign an Intent to each item. We give the item title

with a regular text string, for clarity. You can use a resource

identifier, as well. For this example, there is no other handling or

code needed. When one of these menu items is selected, the

Activity described by the Intent starts.