Android Open Menu from a button

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Is there a way for a button to call a submenu?

I currently have a menu where if they select one of the options it opens a submenu, however I want to be able to start the submenu from the Button widget instead of the Menu object.

Thanks!

score 27 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 26 '11 at 03:29

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I am not necessarily recommending this, but I was able to call the submenu programatically. First, in the override of onCreateOptionsMenu I stored the menu parameter to a private Menu variable in the activity. Then, I was able to simply do the following from the onClick():

MyActivity.this.openOptionsMenu(); // activity's onCreateOptionsMenu gets called
optionsMenu.performIdentifierAction(R.id.miSubMenu1, 0);

In a particular instance this saved me a lot of time since the submenu was built months before the request to have an additional button go directly to the submenu.

answered Sep 26 '11 at 03:29

Mark D

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I already upvoted this, but wanted to add a comment to say that this should probably be the accepted answer. Worked perfectly. – Waynn Lue Apr 17 '12 at 03:40
what is "optionsMenu"? Where do I define it? – Michael Yaworski Oct 14 '13 at 04:09
@mikeyaworski Just define this in your activity (Menu optionsMenu;) and add optionsMenu = menu; to onCreateOptionsMenu() – Mark D Oct 14 '13 at 21:28

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 09 '10 at 15:07

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You can use the openOptionsMenu() on the activity to programmatically open the activity from the button, but you can't do the same for a submenu.

answered Nov 09 '10 at 15:07

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 15 '10 at 19:05

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I'm not sure if thats possible. One option would be to use a dialog as the sub menu, so that you can open it from either location.

answered Sep 15 '10 at 19:05

Cheryl Simon

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