How To Call Or Control MenuItems From Fragment

Posted by blogmeister on

December 24, 2013

I thought that creating a custom method in my Activity class where I can change the visibility of a MenuItem and accessing it from the Fragment would work. Sadly, it did not.

It seems that the Fragment class has a method called setHasOptionsMenu(boolean) and you need to call that from within the onCreateView() method in order to be able to manipulate MenuItems from within onCreateOptionsMenu().

So this is how a sample Fragment class will look like.

public static class MyFragment extends Fragment {
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setHasOptionsMenu(true);
    }
    @Override
    public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
        menu.findItem(R.id.mymenuitem).setVisible(false);
    }
}