Adding the Menu

The last thing we need to is add a menu. 0:00 An easy way to do this, 0:03 is to copy the code from a project that already has a menu. 0:05 Luckily, Android studio creates lots of those. 0:09 Let's pick this one, with the three dots in the corner. 0:12 We'll want this menumain.xml file for ourselves. 0:26 We don't even have a menu folder under our res directory yet. 0:30 So I'll just copy the whole directory. 0:35 This is the string that will display when we click the menu button. 0:43 So let's hit Alt+Enter to create this. 0:49 We want it to say clear strokes. 0:53 It would also be nice if it had a more descriptive name. 0:57 We can go to re-factor, rename, noting that the keyboard shortcut is shift F6, 1:02 and then name it action clear strokes. 1:10 And we'll do the same thing for the ID. 1:18 Except this time we'll use the Shift+F6 shortcut. 1:20 All right. 1:30 Now we need to add the code and main activity to use that menu. 1:33 We can grab that code from the project we just generated as well. 1:39 And main activity. 1:46 Below onCreate we'll want the onCreateMenuOptions and 1:48 onOptionsItemSelected file methods. 1:53 And we'll paste them below on pause. 2:01 Recall that we changed our action settings to be action clear strokes. 2:09 And now we can add the code that we'd like to execute when that button is pressed. 2:17 What we'd like to happen is for each of the holes to reset their stroke count 2:21 to zero, as well as to not to have any saved data with those strokes either. 2:27 So we'll take our editor. 2:33 And we'll hit clear to remove all the shared preference values, 2:37 and then mEditor.apply to save our changes. 2:42 After that, we need to set each of the whole scores to zero. 2:50 Instead of using a for loop, using int I equals zero, like I have been doing. 2:55 This time I'll use a for each loop to show something different. 3:01 So four, we're going to be using holes. 3:05 And we're going to call the holes in the loop hole, from the group called m holes. 3:09 And for each hole, we wanna set the stroke count to zero. 3:18 Okay. 3:25 That should do it. 3:27 Let's see what happens. 3:29 Well, right off the bat, it's pretty clear that we don't have a bar up here. 3:32 And we'd like one. 3:37 Let's hop over to Google and see what that's all about. 3:39 I Googled for list activity, no action bar. 3:42 And on the second result, 3:46 We learn that only themes after Holo can get action bars. 3:53 And our theme, let's double check it against this first, 3:58 is AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar. 4:07 Which is exactly what he says might cause us trouble. 4:11 So let's try changing it to 4:15 Android:Theme.Holo. 4:20 All right. 4:32 We've got our action bar. 4:33 And we've got an awfully dark theme, if you like this theme that's great, 4:35 if you don't we can change this to Holo.Light. 4:39 Looks good. 4:44 So what happens when we clear the strokes? 4:46 Nothing, nothing happened. 4:49 Three, two, one, zeros, zeros. 4:56 What's going on here is when we clear the strokes, 5:05 we're clearing them in the data and the data is correct. 5:08 But what's being shown to us is not being updated. 5:12 We haven't told the list view to update. 5:15 By scrolling up and down, we can make it update each of the views, and so 5:18 if we clear the strokes and scroll down, and then come back up, it'll be zero. 5:23 But it won't be 0 right when we hit Clear Strokes because we haven't added any code 5:29 to clear that yet. 5:35 This is an easy fix though. 5:39 In MainActivity.java, right after we set all the hole stroke counts to 0 5:43 All we need to do is call notifyDataSetChanged on our list adaptor. 5:49 So, mlistadaptor.notifyDataSetChanged. 5:57 And this tells the list adaptor that the data set changed. 6:02 And the list adaptor knows that when that happens it needs to update. 6:05 So that should handle that bug. 6:10 Let's run it and find out. 6:11 All right, lets add some scores and then clear them. 6:15 Looks good. 6:20 And if we leave, and then come back, still zeros. 6:21 Let's test a rotation just for good measure. 6:31 Looks good. And it looks like we're done with the app. 6:37 Great job. 6:41 If you're looking for 6:42 more things to add to this app, a good place to start would be the app icon. 6:43 Congratulations on finishing the Golf Scorecard app. 6:48 It was definitely a lot of work. 6:51 But being able to put all the pieces together and 6:53 create a finished product, is definitely worth it. 6:55 You’re now well on your way to becoming an Android developer, and 6:58 I look forward to seeing what you choose to make next. 7:01