Android: Inflate Menu (add Items To Action Bar) Only On Click Of A Button

I am trying to inflate a menu only onclick of a button in android. How do i achieve it without creating it automatically by calling onCreateOptionsMenu. I want the menu to appear o

Solution 1:

First add this icon in you action R.menu... file and set the visibility as false.

Have a boolean instance variable in our java file.

privatebooleanisTickVisible=false;

Then you need to override OnPrepareOptions menu like below and set the visibility of the tick menu.

@OverridepublicvoidonPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);

        MenuItemsomeMenuItem= menu.findItem(R.id.tick_menu_item);
        someMenuItem.setVisible(isTickVisible);
    }

Finally onClick event of your button do the following :

isTickVisible = true;
invalidateOptionsMenu(); //this will redraw your menu.

Solution 2:

I fixed this issue by setting the visibility.Inflate the layout and make it visible only on clicking the button.Add a flag inside onClickListener eg:Hide=true;

@Override
 public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
 getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_search, menu);

for (int i = 0; i < menu.size(); i++)
       if(Hide){
            menu.getItem(i).setVisible(true);
            }
}