Menu in Action Bar

Android Action Bar is same as that of Menu but the only difference is that in this the menu items appear on the action bar and not in  the menu.

Create new project having:

Application Name : AndroidMenu

Project Name : AndroidMenu

Package Name : com.codingredefined.androidmenu

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 You may change the icon of your app then click NEXT

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 You may or may not change the code of the layout file as it has nothing to do with this example.
For those who want to change:

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:text="Android Menu Item" />

 Now to create the menu items, goto menu file in the menu folder again in res folder and paste the following code:

<item
        android:id="@+id/item_1"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="always"
        android:title="item 1"/>

    <item
        android:id="@+id/item_2"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="always"
        android:title="item 2"/>

Then in order to make the menu items working use the below code after the onCreate()

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item)
{
switch(item.getItemId())
{
case R.id.item_1:
Toast.makeText(this,"Menu Item 1",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
break;
case R.id.item_2:
Toast.makeText(this,"Menu Item 2",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
break;
default:
break;
}
return true;
}

Pasting the above code will produce a toast on your emulator screen as shown in below figures.

 After pasting the code run your application and observe the output