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How to make any imagebutton a menu button

I have an imageButton in a xml file. Now want to make it a menu button, so that when a user click on the button it should show the drop down menus. But I am not able to figure out what are the possible solution(s).
Can anyone help?

2 Answers
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If you're trying to show a drop down menu when clicking an ImageButton (or any other View), try this:

final ImageButton imageButton = // get your ImageButton from the XML here

final PopupMenu dropDownMenu = new PopupMenu(getContext(), imageButton);

final Menu menu = dropDownMenu.getMenu();
// add your items:
menu.add(0, 0, 0, "An item");
menu.add(0, 1, 0, "Another item");
// OR inflate your menu from an XML:
dropDownMenu.getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.some_menu, menu);

dropDownMenu.setOnMenuItemClickListener(new PopupMenu.OnMenuItemClickListener() {
@Override
public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) {
switch (item.getItemId()) {
case 0:
// item ID 0 was clicked
return true;
case 1:
// item ID 1 was clicked
return true;
}
return false;
}
});

imageButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
dropDownMenu.show();
}
});

// if you want to be able to open the menu by dragging on the button:
imageButton.setOnTouchListener(dropDownMenu.getDragToOpenListener());


When Android Studio asks to import PopupMenu you may see two options:

<style name="MenuTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat"> <item name="popupMenuStyle">@style/MenuStyle</item> <item name="android:textColor">#00FF00</item> </style> <style name="MenuStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.PopupMenu"> <item name="android:popupBackground">#0000FF</item> </style>

new PopupMenu(getContext(), imageButton)

new PopupMenu(new ContextThemeWrapper(getContext(), R.style.MenuTheme) imageButton)

final ImageButton imageButton ;

final PopupMenu dropDownMenu = new PopupMenu(getContext(), imageButton);

final Menu menu = dropDownMenu.getMenu();
menu.add(0, 0, 0, "Item 1");
menu.add(0, 1, 0, "Item 2");

dropDownMenu.getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.some_menu, menu);

dropDownMenu.setOnMenuItemClickListener(new PopupMenu.OnMenuItemClickListener() {
@Override
public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) {
switch (item.getItemId()) {
case 0:

return true;
case 1:

return true;
}
return false;
}
});

imageButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
dropDownMenu.show();
}
});


imageButton.setOnTouchListener(dropDownMenu.getDragToOpenListener());


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