android - menu directory is missing

Question

I'm a very new programmer in Android. I'm trying to define an action overflow button in my app. From what I've read it involves modifying the menu.xml file. I cannot find that file in my app and I don't have the res > menu directory. I have created a SettingActivity. Any Suggestions?

Answer 1

You can create a menu dir in the res/ folder. Right click on res in the project view in Android Studio and click new -> "Android Resource Directory". Then select menu under "Resource Type". You can then add a file to that new res/menu directory that contains your menu items like this (res/menu/main_menu.xml)

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
    <item
        android:id="@+id/action"
        android:title="@string/action"
        app:showAsAction="always" />
</menu>

And get sure to override the onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) in the MainActivity class like this:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.main_menu,menu);
    return true;
}