I am using ActionBarSherlock:
There are 3 menu items, of which only 1 has an ActionLayout.
default_menu.xml
<item
android:id="@+id/searchIcon"
android:icon="@drawable/search_icon"
android:actionLayout="@layout/search_icon_actionview"
android:showAsAction="always|collapseActionView"
android:title="Search"/>
<item
android:id="@+id/newIcon"
android:icon="@drawable/new_icon"
android:orderInCategory="0"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom|collapseActionView"
android:title="New"/>
<item
android:id="@+id/notificationIcon"
android:icon="@drawable/notification_icon"
android:orderInCategory="0"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom|collapseActionView"
android:title="Notifications"/>
if i am using the above code. Only 1st 2 icons are visible. And if i make 2nd and 3rd as Always they remain even when the actionLayout is opened when clicked on Search.
I want to show all the 3 Menu Items initially and when search_icon is clicked hide every Item.
I also have a doubt about my implementation, whether i am doing i the right way.
In the Activity's(which has a viewPager) first Fragment:
@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
switch (item.getItemId()) {
case R.id.searchIcon:
mEtSearchbar.clearFocus();
(new Handler()).postDelayed(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
mEtSearchbar.dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent.obtain(SystemClock.uptimeMillis(), SystemClock.uptimeMillis(), MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN, 0, 0, 0));
mEtSearchbar.dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent.obtain(SystemClock.uptimeMillis(), SystemClock.uptimeMillis(), MotionEvent.ACTION_UP , 0, 0, 0));
}
}, 100);
return true;
case R.id.newIcon:
return true;
case R.id.notificationIcon:
return true;
default:
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
}
@Override
public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
inflater.inflate(R.menu.default_menu, menu);
mSearchbar = (MenuItem) menu.findItem(R.id.searchIcon);
View actionview = mSearchbar.getActionView();
mEtSearchbar = ((EditText) actionview.findViewById(R.id.search_editText));
ImageView searchImage = ((ImageView) actionview.findViewById(R.id.search_image));
searchImage.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View arg0) {
String s = mEtSearchbar.getText().toString();
Toast.makeText(getSherlockActivity(), "Searching for: " + s, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
.show();
}
});
super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater);
}
This is what i ended up using.
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
MenuInflater inflater = getSupportMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.search);
mSearchView = (SearchView) searchItem.getActionView();
setupSearchView(searchItem);
mSearchView.setOnSearchClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
// hide action item
if (menu != null) {
menu.findItem(R.id.notifications).setVisible(false);
menu.findItem(R.id.share).setVisible(false);
}
}
});
mSearchView.setOnCloseListener(new SearchView.OnCloseListener() {
@Override
public boolean onClose() {
adapter.getFilter().filter("");
// re-show the action button
if (menu != null) {
menu.findItem(R.id.notifications).setVisible(true);
menu.findItem(R.id.share).setVisible(true);
}
return false;
}
});
return true;
}
private void setupSearchView(MenuItem searchItem) {
//code
}