How to create a Popup Menu in Android

How to create a Popup Menu in Android

In Android application, menus are the common user interface components which gives user a dynamic user experience. Popup menu is also a type of menu anchored to the view.When some event happens like click on button the it appear below the anchor view otherwise above the anchor view.Other details.

• Popup menus are available after Android API 11 or higher.
• They can be use for command giving or providing functionality to the user for some view.

Now lets begin the programming for Popup Menu:

• First start your eclipse and select new -> project and click next.
• Now fill with following details:

• Project name- PopupMenu
• Application name- PopupMenu
• package name-menu.popup
• Minimum required SDK- select android 3.0
• tick on create custom laucher icon.
• tick on create project in workspace and then final.

• Now open the activity_main.xml layout under the res-> menu-> activity_main.xml and the replace the given code with this new code given below.

 <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">  
     <item android:id="@+id/facebook"   
       android:title="facebook">  
     </item>  
     <item android:id="@+id/wordpress"   
       android:title="wordpress">  
     </item>  
     <item android:id="@+id/google"  
        android:title="google">  
     </item>  
   </menu>  

• Now open the activity_main.xml layout under the res-> layout-> activity_main.xml and the replace the given code with this new code given below.

 <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"  
   xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"  
   android:layout_width="match_parent"  
   android:layout_height="match_parent" >  
   <Button  
     android:id="@+id/button1"  
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"  
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"  
     android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"  
     android:layout_centerVertical="true"  
     android:onClick="showPopup"  
     android:text="Select Website" />  
 </RelativeLayout>  

• Now open the MainActivity.java and replace the previous given code with the new given code below.

 package menu.popup;  
 import android.os.Bundle;  
 import android.annotation.SuppressLint;  
 import android.app.Activity;  
 import android.view.MenuInflater;  
 import android.view.MenuItem;  
 import android.view.View;  
 import android.widget.PopupMenu;  
 import android.widget.Toast;  
 import android.widget.PopupMenu.OnMenuItemClickListener;  
 @SuppressLint("NewApi")  
 public class MainActivity extends Activity {  
   @Override  
   public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {  
     super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);  
     setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);  
   }  
   public void showPopup(View v) {  
     PopupMenu popup = new PopupMenu(this, v);  
     MenuInflater inflater = popup.getMenuInflater();  
     inflater.inflate(R.menu.activity_main, popup.getMenu());  
     popup.show();  
   }  
   public void showMenu(View v) {  
     PopupMenu popup = new PopupMenu(this, v);  
     popup.setOnMenuItemClickListener((OnMenuItemClickListener) this);  
     popup.inflate(R.menu.activity_main);  
     popup.show();  
   }  
   public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) {  
     switch (item.getItemId()) {  
     case R.id.facebook:  
       Toast.makeText(this,"you hava selected the facebook",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();  
        return true;  
     case R.id.wordpress:  
           Toast.makeText(this,"you hava selected the wordpress",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();  
       return true;  
     case R.id.google:  
           Toast.makeText(this,"you hava selected the google",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();  
       return true;  
       default:   
            return false;  
     }  
   }  
 }  

• Now lets understand some imp. keyword in MainActivity.java
• android.view.MenuInflater for inflating the menu from xml format.
• android.view.MenuItem ,an interface for direct access to previously created menu item.
• android.widget.Toast for a view containing little message for the user.
• android.annotation.SuppressLint indicates the lint to ignore warning for specific annotated elements.
• android.widget.PopupMenu, displays menu in model popup window anchored to a view.
• android.widget.PopupMenu.OnMenuItemClickListener,interface responsible for receiving menu item click events if item don't have individual click listener.
• @SuppressLint("NewApi"), used for ignoring the NEW API issue as popup menu works after API 11 or higher.
• onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) called when menu item has been invoked.

• Now it time to run the project and when you click on the button it will show the popup menu