How to NOT call onCreateOptionsMenu when calling FragmentManager.replace()

Question

I have a Toolbar being used as an ActionBar with two items. I only want to ever display one at a time as they kind of replace each other. The problem is that when i replace a Fragment, it call onCreateOptionsMenu and will inflate the menu again, meaning that the same action button will be shown, even if the other one was previously in the ActionBar. I have to need to change anything in the ActionBar from my Fragments or when a new Fragment is displayed(with FragmentManager.FragmentTransaction.replace()). So my question is how do I not call onCreateOptionsMenu when a new fragment is displayed?

I can't use a boolean because I will still need it to reinflate on orientation change. And any advice on how to handle orentation change for my situation?

I can post code, but it seems more conceptual and I'm not sure that it would help.

Answer 1

I solved the problem by instead of not calling onCreateOptionsMenu, I added the items to my menu manually.

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    boolean refreshVisible;

    if (refreshItem != null && refreshItem.isVisible()){//is being displayed prior to inflation
        refreshVisible = true;
    }else if (refreshItem == null){//it's null so the menu has never been created
        refreshVisible = true;
    }else {//it's not null and invisibe, other icon was being displayed
        refreshVisible = false;
    }

    menu.clear();//clear menu so there are no duplicate or overlapping icons
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);//inflate menu
    refreshItem = menu.findItem(R.id.refresh);
    useDataItem = menu.findItem(R.id.use_data);
    refreshItem.setVisible(refreshVisible);//if menu is being created for first time or item was previously visible, then display this item
    useDataItem.setVisible(!refreshVisible);//display this item if not displaying other

    return true;

}