How to set menu to Toolbar in Android

📱🛠️🔧 How to set menu to Toolbar in Android? Let's fix that problem and show the menu in the Toolbar! 🚀

So you want to use the Toolbar instead of the ActionBar, but for some reason, the menu is not appearing in the Toolbar. Don't worry, we've got you covered! 🤩

First, let's take a look at the code snippets you provided. We have the toolbar XML code, the MainPage Java code, and the main_menu XML code. Let's go step by step. 📝

In your toolbar.xml code, make sure you have the app:menu attribute set to your menu resource file, like this:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    ...
    app:menu="@menu/main_menu"
    ...
/>

It seems like you have already done this correctly, so let's move on to the MainPage.java code.

Make sure you have the following code in the onCreate method of your MainPage class:

toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.main_toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
if (getSupportActionBar() != null) {
    getSupportActionBar().setTitle("Main Page");
}
toolbar.setSubtitle("Test Subtitle");

These lines of code set the toolbar as the ActionBar, set the title and subtitle, and now it's time to inflate the menu.

Add the following line of code after setting the subtitle:

toolbar.inflateMenu(R.menu.main_menu);

This will inflate the menu items from the main_menu.xml file into the Toolbar.

Now, let's take a look at the main_menu.xml code.

Make sure that the app:showAsAction attribute is set to "always" for both items in your menu. This will tell Android to always show these items as action buttons in the Toolbar.

<item
    ...
    app:showAsAction="always"
    ...
/>

<item
    ...
    app:showAsAction="always"
    ...
/>

And that's it! 🎉

Give it a try now and run your app. The menu items should be visible in your Toolbar. Check out the screenshot here: enter image description here

If you encounter any issues or have any other questions, feel free to ask in the comments below. We're here to help! 😊

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Good luck and happy coding! 💻🚀✨