Questions tagged [overflow-menu]
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Android: Launching an alert dialog from an overflow menu item
I am trying to launch an alert dialog from an overflow menu item. The dialog layout is in dialog_settings.xml.
import android.support.v7.app.AlertDialog;
/** Code omitted */
@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
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Overflow Menu PopUp
I have recently replaced the appcompat in my app with the design library ('com.android.support:design:24.2.0'). The overflow menu popup is now appearing to the centre of the screen instead of the right on the tablet I'm testing on (Samsung Tab with…

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Android: How to remove overflow menu icon tooltip?
In Android, when you onLongClick an overflow menu item icon, a tooltip of its title will appear.
I've tried setting the menu title to blank, but a blank tooltip will pop up.
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appcompat v7 overflow icon color different in V-21
I have Imagebutton with src="@drawable/abc_ic_menu_moreoverflow_mtrl_alpha" using appcompat-v7 21.0.3.

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Deactivate Appcompat on Android Studio
I moved from using Eclipse to use Android Studio, but I foun with a problem, AppCompat is bringing me some problems and I don't want to use it so I tried to deactivated but I didn't find a way. There is an option in Android Studio to deactivate it?…

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The menu item isn't showing in the ActionBar, only in overflow menu
I have exactly the same problem as in these threads:
No actions or icons showing on the actionbar; only in overflow
Menu items won't show up in the actiobar
No one has offered a solution, so I want to bring it up again.
I have a xml-file,…

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Custom Overflow Menu Of Toolbar Android
I am trying to implement a custom overflow menu in a toolbar, the image is attached for reference. I went through many tutorials and articles to implement the desired result but was unable to do it. I managed to implement it a little bit but was…

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Toolbar menu item text doesn't align with icon
How can I align text with the icon? It is working fine if I remove parent property but it is being used by some other activity so I cannot remove it. I think I might have messed up somewhere in layout xml file but couldn't find it…

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How do i add overflow menu on custom action bar?
I want use custom toolbar because of title and subtitles but I also want to add overflow menu and I did everything and my toolbar doesn't showing overflow menu what I'm suppose to do
Main Activity Layout xml

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Adding a Badge on Overflow Menu icon - Android
Is there any easy way of adding a simple badge/dot on the Overflow Menu (three-dot menu) icon on the Toolbar?
I'm trying to show the user that there is a new menu item inside. Note that I should be able to add/remove this programmatically. Any help…

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S-Pen forces menu list to jump back to the top
The S-Pen does not scroll properly with a MenuDropDownListView after being created when pressing an OverflowMenuButton on the Toolbar (see gif below).
The menu is forced back to the top when the S-Pen makes contact.
This issue does not seem to be…

SPenAficionado
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Overflow button overlap other actions icon in ActionMenuView
I Used ActionMenuView to render menus. But the overflow button of ActionMenuView overlap last action icon:
This is my code:

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How to dismiss overflow menu when home button is pressed android?
I am displaying overflow menu list when we click the three dots. When I press home button and again when I launch the app, overflow menu list is still displaying. How to dismiss overflow menu list window?
public class MainActivity extends…

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How to set margins on the overflow menu icon?
Hello.
I want to move the icon to the left in toolbar.
In menu.xml, There is no margin property.
I want to set margin to overflow menu's icon.
How to set margin?
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activity_main.xml

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(android) Why doesn't app:actionLayout="" work?
Hi
I'm using Navgation Drawer.
I want to change from text to text and icon at overflow menu items.
So i used 'android:icon' and 'android:title' in menu.xml. But Anything is not displayed.
To be exact, I could only see text.
and
I used…

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