Other items in action bar?

Question

I want to put a check mark on my action bar instead of the 3 dots menu. The activity will then be finished after the check is clicked. How can I achieve this?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 08 '17 at 21:56

You can achieve this by adding your own menu in your activity/fragment.

and after adding all that use something like this

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case R.id.tick:
            finish();
            break;
    }
    return true;
}

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 08 '17 at 23:42

Create a new folder under res folder named menu. Right click it and add a new menu resource, name it something like mymenu.xml. Add this code:

<item
    android:title="check"
    android:id="@+id/check"
    android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_dialog_info"
    android:orderInCategory="100"
    app:showAsAction="always"/>

You can change the icon to any other. Handle it in onOptionsItemSelected (like in above reply).

Other items in action bar?

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