Options Menu in Android.

In this tutorial, we will see how to create Option Menu in Android. Very few steps we need to follow. We are creating a single menu with 4 menu items. Each menu item has a title to display the label. 

Step 1: Create a new project in Android Studio. ( Select File ⇒ New ⇒ Android Project and give     
                 activity name MenusActivity.java.)

Step 2:  Open menu.xml (located under res/menu folder) file and paste below code into it.

                <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

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

                    <!-- Single menu item       Set id, icon and Title for each menu item    --> 

                        <item android:id="@+id/menu_save"

                          android:title="Save" /> 

                        <item android:id="@+id/menu_share"

                          android:title="Share" /> 

                        <item android:id="@+id/menu_delete"

                          android:title="Delete" />  

                        <item android:id="@+id/menu_preferences"

                          android:title="Preferences" />

               </menu> 

 Step 3:  Now open your Activity class file (MenusActivity.java) and paste the following code. In the following code, each menu item is identified by its ID in the switch case statement.

import android.app.Activity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.view.Menu;

import android.view.MenuInflater;

import android.view.MenuItem;

import android.widget.Toast;

public class AndroidMenusActivity extends Activity 

{

    @Override

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)

   {       

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setContentView(R.layout.main);

    }

    // Initiating Menu XML file (menu.xml)

    @Override

    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)

    {

        MenuInflater menuInflater = getMenuInflater();

        menuInflater.inflate(R.layout.menu, menu);

        return true;

    }

       @Override

    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item)

    {        

        switch (item.getItemId())

        { 

        case R.id.menu_save:

            Toast.makeText(AndroidMenusActivity.this, "Save is Selected", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

            return true; 

        case R.id.menu_share:

            Toast.makeText(AndroidMenusActivity.this, "Share is Selected", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

            return true; 

        case R.id.menu_delete:

            Toast.makeText(AndroidMenusActivity.this, "Delete is Selected", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

            return true;

         case R.id.menu_preferences:

            Toast.makeText(AndroidMenusActivity.this, "Preferences is Selected", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

            return true; 

        default:

            return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);

        }

    }    

}

        woohoo, just three steps, and we are done. 

        

        

        Thank You🙌😉.