Android MenuItem Toggle Button

7
votes

In my Android application, I want a setting to be toggleable in it's menu like the Dialer app does for speaker and mute. You can see a picture below:

http://www.isaacwaller.com/images/acall.png

You see how the Speaker, Mute and Hold options are toggle buttons - you can tap them again and they will toggle the green color. They may do this in a custom way, but I suspect it is a option (I tried setting the Checkable attribute).

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androidbuttontogglemenuitemtogglebutton

2 Answers

6
votes

It's looks like this menu item is implemented as a custom view.

In the android source code you can take a look at com.android.phone.InCallMenuView.java to see how this is implemented.

It doesn't look like it is part of the public API, but it looks pretty self-contained. If your project has a compatible license, you may be able to copy it into your project and use and modify it as you see fit.

10
votes

You could do something like the snippet below as well, originally sourced from anddev.org

public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(final Menu menu) {       
      if(super.mMapView.isTraffic()) 
           menu.findItem(MENU_TRAFFIC_ID).setIcon(R.drawable.traffic_off_48); 
      else 
           menu.findItem(MENU_TRAFFIC_ID).setIcon(R.drawable.traffic_on_48); 

      return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu); 
 }