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Android

Posted by Michael Cabus
Michael Cabus
1,319 Points

Android logout menu not showing

Hi

I can't seem to get my logout menu to display;

I have this in the activity:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    int itemId = item.getItemId();

    if (itemId == R.id.action_logout) {
        ParseUser.logOut();
        navigate_to_login();

}

    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}

}

And this is the menu:

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" tools:context=".MainActivity"> <item android:id="@+id/action_logout" android:title="@string/log_out" android:orderInCategory="100" app:showAsAction="always"/> </menu>

Should be showing right?

Thanks so much!

Michael

2 Answers

Patrick Corrigan
Patrick Corrigan
5,739 Points

Remove the line app:showAsAction="always" from the menu xml. This line forces the option to show up on the action bar itself rather than in the menu. Other than that your code looks fine to me.

Michael Cabus
Michael Cabus
1,319 Points
Michael Cabus
Michael Cabus
1,319 Points

Thanks Patrick!

I've discovered the emulators display the menus in differing ways..

Michael