Android 9 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

How to do it...

With the new project created as described in the preceding section, you are ready to create a menu. First, we will add a string resource to strings.xml. We will use the new string for the menu title when we create the XML for the menu. Here are the steps:

1. Start by opening the strings.xml file and adding the following <string> element to the <resources> element:

    <string name="menu_settings">Settings</string> 

2. Create a new file in the res/menu directory and call it menu_main.xml.

3. Open the menu_main.xml file and add the following XML to define the menu:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>    <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"        xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">        <item android ...