42. Creating and Managing Overflow Menus on Android
An area of user interface design that has not yet been covered in this book relates to the concept of menus within an Android application. Menus provide a mechanism for offering additional choices to the user beyond the view components that are present in the user interface layout. While there are a number of different menu systems available to the Android application developer, this chapter will focus on the more commonly used Overflow menu. The chapter will cover the creation of menus both manually via XML and visually using the Android Studio Layout Editor tool.
42.1 The Overflow Menu
The overflow menu (also referred to as the options menu) is a menu that is accessible to the user from the ...
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