Android™ Programming Unleashed

Chapter 7. Creating Interactive Menus and ActionBars

In This Chapter

• Menus and Their Types

• Creating Options Menus with XML

• Creating Menus with Coding

• Handling Menu Selections

• Using Check Boxes/Radio Buttons in Menus

• Adding Shortcut Keys

• Using the ActionBar

• Displaying Action Items

• Creating Tabbed ActionBar

• Creating Drop-Down List ActionBar

In almost all applications we encounter menus that display options in the form of menu items. Choosing a menu item results in the initiation of the desired task. Menus are therefore the preferred way of indicating the possible actions in an application.

The ActionBar is a widget that replaces the title bar at the top of an Activity displaying navigation and important functionality of an ...