Android Question How can I determine how many icons can fit on the Actionbar?

[JohnC]

My app puts three items in the top right corner of the Activity using this:

Activity.AddMenuItem3

Two are Icons and the third is the text "SAVE".

Normally, you would want to have the SAVE item in the top right corner of the activity. So I add them to the activity line this:

- Icon 1
- Icon 2
- SAVE

And larger screen devices can display all three, with "SAVE" and the right-most item.

But, on smaller devices, they can only fit 2 items, so since the auto-3-dot menu item counts as one item, the activity will only show the Icon 1 and the three dots. Then when you hit the 3-dots, the ICON1 and SAVE appear in the drop-down menu.

But I would rather have the SAVE item be the one that is displayed in the titlebar, and have Icon1 and Icon2 be in the drop-down menu. So, this would require changing the loading order to:

- SAVE
- Icon 1
- Icon 2

So, is there a way to determine ahead of time how many items the current device can display in the title/actionbar *before* I load up the menu so I can select the loading order that best works for what I want to do?

 

[Erel]

You will need to do something like:

If GetDeviceLayoutValues.ApproximateScreenSize > 5 Then
   'add SAVE last
Else
   'add SAVE first
End If

 

[JohnC]

Thanks!

I have a HUAWEI - Y538 that gave a 3.89 value, and a Samsung S4 that gave a 4.59, so I set the threshold to 4 and it seems to be working good.

 

[udg]

Should you ever need more icons displayed you could check my dgActionBar lib.
It's able to display any number of icons due to its horizontal scrolling.
Note: as explained in its thread dgAB is not a real ActionBar (as per Android definition); it's more a command bar.

udg