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How change position of popup menu on android overflow button?


I just like to implement somethings same as popup menu in the Gmail app, anchored to the overflow button at the top-right. for that I used the same code as google tutorial for android Android popup menu, but for me show pop menu on top of edge of actionbar not under that. If you notice on pop menu of gmail overflow you saw that popmenu take place at edge of actionbar.

This is the xml that I used for popup menu:

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >

    <item
        android:id="@+id/item1"
        android:title="lablab"/>
    <item
        android:id="@+id/item2"
        android:title="lablab"/>

</menu>

and at the follow is in my activity:

public void showFontSetting(View view) {
    PopupMenu popup = new PopupMenu(this, view);
    MenuInflater inflater = popup.getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu, popup.getMenu());
    popup.show();

    popup.setOnMenuItemClickListener(new PopupMenu.OnMenuItemClickListener() {

        @Override
        public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

            switch (item.getItemId()) {
                case R.id.item1:
                    Toast.makeText(Index.this,
                        "You Clicked : " + item.getTitle(),
                    Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    break;
                case R.id.item2:
                    break;
            }
            return true;
        }
    });
}

Solution

  • Add the following piece of code to your activity:

    PopupWindow popupwindow_obj; // create object
    
    popupwindow_obj=popupDisplay();  // initialize in onCreate()
    
    popupwindow_obj.showAsDropDown(clickbtn,-40, 18); // where u want show on view click event
    
    public PopupWindow popupDisplay() { // disply designing your popoup window
        final PopupWindow popupWindow = new PopupWindow(this); // inflet your layout or diynamic add view
    
        View view; 
    
        LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater)   getContext().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE); 
    
        view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.mylayout, null);
    
        Button item = (LinearLayout) view.findViewById(R.id.button1);
    
        popupWindow.setFocusable(true);
        popupWindow.setWidth(WindowManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
        popupWindow.setHeight(WindowManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
        popupWindow.setContentView(view);
    
        return popupWindow;
    }
    

    Create an XML in res/layout directory and name it mylayout.xml

    <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:orientation="horizontal" >
    
            <Button
                android:id="@+id/button1"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="Window test" />
    </LinearLayout>