Overflow Menu icon in Custom Toolbar

Question

I am using a custom toolbar which has a menu icon. Now on clicking this menu icon i want to show the options menu. How can this be done.

I tried adding a onclicklistener to this menu icon

@Override
public void onClick(View v) {


    if(v.getId() == R.id.toolbarMenuIcon){
        openOptionsMenu();
    }

}

This didnt work. Then i added these lines

setSupportActionBar(mBinding.customSelectToolbar.selectionModeToolbar);

in my activitys oncreate() . Also did override

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
        inflater.inflate(R.menu.selection_mode_menu, menu);
    return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}

With this i can see the overflow menu when i click the icon. But the problem is that, it adds the default menu icon also to the tool bar and thus my tool bar has two menu now. How can i have only my custom toolbar icon open the options menu

it adds the default menu icon?...do you add a custom menu icon in your toolbar? — rafsanahmad007
– rafsanahmad007, Commented Dec 14, 2017 at 15:49
yes i have an icon toolbarMenuIcon in my toolbar layout. I want to show the options menu on clicking this one — png
– png, Commented Dec 14, 2017 at 15:53

rafsanahmad007 · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-14 15:57:14Z

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If you want to customize the default overflow menu icon..

Use setOverflowIcon method of your toolbar.

like:

 toolbar.setOverflowIcon(ContextCompat.getDrawable(this, R.drawable.your_icon));

answered Dec 14, 2017 at 15:57

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png Over a year ago

i have all other icons on toolbar also customised. So is it not possible to have a button that act as options menu icon on click

rafsanahmad007 Over a year ago

sounds like you want something like This

rafsanahmad007 Over a year ago

Also your question is not clear...if you set the custom icon as your overflow menu....it will open the options as well !..you need to override the onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item)...to to define the onClick behaviour of your MenuItem..

png Over a year ago

Thanks for your inputs. I dont want to show a popup menu. "if you set the custom icon as your overflow menu....it will open the options as well !." This is not happening if i just call openOptionsMenu without setting setSupportActionBar(mytoolbar) . The oncreateOptionsmenu is never getting triggered in that case

rafsanahmad007 Over a year ago

the 'oncreateOptionsmenu` is the method of Actionbar by calling setSupportActionBar(mytoolbar) we enable the toolbar as actionbar..without it it will never work, also i don't figure out what is the problem by setSupportActionBar(mytoolbar)? also this is out of topic in your question..u better repost ur question again..!

png · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-14 20:39:51Z

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I got it working using theme

<style name="OverFlow" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ActionButton.Overflow">
    <item name="android:src">@drawable/ic_menu_overflow</item>
    <item name="android:tint">...</item>
    <item name="android:width">..dp</item>
    <item name="android:height">..dp</item>

</style>

<style name="OnArrival.toolbarTheme" parent="Theme.OnArrival.Light">

    <item name="actionOverflowButtonStyle">@style/OverFlow</item>
</style>

answered Dec 14, 2017 at 20:39

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