# Titanium.Android.MenuItem

Value of this property is concatenated together with accessibilityLabel and accessibilityValue in the order: accessibilityLabel, accessibilityValue, accessibilityHint. The concatenated value is then passed as the argument to the native MenuItemCompat.setContentDescription method.

Value of this property is concatenated together with accessibilityValue and accessibilityHint in the order: accessibilityLabel, accessibilityValue, accessibilityHint. The concatenated value is then passed as the argument to the native MenuItemCompat.setContentDescription method.

Value of this property is concatenated together with accessibilityLabel and accessibilityHint in the order: accessibilityLabel, accessibilityValue, accessibilityHint. The concatenated value is then passed as the argument to the native MenuItemCompat.setContentDescription method.

This is an action-bar specific API. Prior to Release 3.3.0, this API only works on devices running Android 3.0 (API level 11) and greater.

In order to display the custom view, set the item's showAsAction property to either Titanium.Android.SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS or Titanium.Android.SHOW_AS_ACTION_COLLAPSE_ACTION_VIEW.

Since Alloy 1.6.0, you can specify this property using the <ActionView> element as a child of the <MenuItem> element, for example:

<Alloy>
    <Window>
        <Menu>
            <MenuItem showAsAction="Ti.Android.SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS" title="Search">
                <ActionView>
                    <SearchView ns="Ti.UI.Android" hintText="Type Something"/>
                </ActionView>
            </MenuItem>
        </Menu>
    </Window>
</Alloy>

This is an action-bar specific API. Prior to Release 3.3.0, this API only works on devices running Android 4.0 (API level 14) and greater.

Note that check marks are not supported in the icon menus (main options menu shown when fewer than six options are included). Check marks are discouraged in expanded menus (available when six or more options menu items are defined).

Note that check marks are not supported in the icon menus (main options menu shown when fewer than six options are included). Check marks are discouraged in expanded menus (available when six or more options menu items are defined).

Items that share a group ID may be operated on as a group using the menu's setGroupEnabled and setGroupVisible methods.

Icons are not displayed in expanded menus.

Icons can be specified as a local image URI or an Android resource ID.

The lower bits of this value control the order of the menu item related to other menu items within its category. A menu item with a given value will be displayed before any items with higher values.

The upper bits of the value control the category. These can be set to the values defined by the CATEGORY constants in the Android Menu class, These values are not exposed as constants in Titanium.

See also:

• getOrder in the Android Developer Reference.

• Menu in the Android Developer Reference for definitions of the CATEGORY values.

This is an action-bar specific API. Prior to Release 3.3.0, this property only works on devices running Android 3.0 (API level 11) and greater.

You may set one or more flags (by OR'ing them together) to control how this menu item should be placed inside the action bar.

To control if your item should be displayed as an action button or placed in the overflow menu set one of these flags: SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS, SHOW_AS_ACTION_IF_ROOM, or SHOW_AS_ACTION_NEVER.

If you only wish to display the text label even if the item has an icon set the SHOW_AS_ACTION_WITH_TEXT flag. Note that the SHOW_AS_ACTION_WITH_TEXT setting is only a hint to the system -- the text may or may not be shown depending on the width of the screen. For example, text may not be shown on phones in portrait mode. In addition if the application can be displayed in both portrait and landscape mode, whether or not the text is displayed depends on the device's orientation when the application launches. (This is true of both Titanium applications and native Android applications.) For this reason, using SHOW_AS_ACTION_WITH_TEXT is not recommended for applications that support both orientions.

If you want to guarantee that text and icon are always visible, you can create a button with the text and image, and specify it as the item's actionView.

You may specify if your action view is collapsible by setting this property to SHOW_AS_ACTION_COLLAPSE_ACTION_VIEW.

For a collapsible item, the item button (icon and/or text) is displayed when the item is collapsed, and the action view is displayed when the item is expanded.

If SHOW_AS_ACTION_COLLAPSE_ACTION_VIEW is not specified, any actionView specified is displayed instead of the item's icon and/or text.

If both title and titleCondensed are specified, titleCondensed is used in the icon menus, and the title is used in the extended menus.