Android Question Title bar Menu Icons

[techknight]

I use Icons in the title bar for the menu options. However, if I add more than 5, it drops me down to 3 or 4 icons, and pushes the rest of them in the 3-dot menu.

This is undesirable as I wanted to ditch that 3-dot menu anyways, that was the reasoning for me going to icons.

How can I fix that so it will display all my icons?

Thanks.

 

[udg]

Hi @techknight , what you describe is the standard behavior.
One way to circumvent it is to try my dgActionBar lib.

udg

 

[Computersmith64]

You could try using the jfeinstein10 SlidingMenu library instead. I've just started using it in a new app I'm working on & it works great. I have a gear icon on the action bar that opens/closes it, or you can slide it open/closed with your finger as well (default behavior).

 

[techknight]

I like your idea computersmith, However. My apps are tailored for not only millennials, but a large majority are Gen X, and even older. So the reason why I wanted my icons to stand out without "doing anything extra" is so it comes clearly to them.

My apps are targetted for the not so smart or experienced mobile users. Basically, I am writing apps for "old people"

However, I do have other apps for different things I think they would work great on. Such as my inventory system that I am slowly building (taking forever)

 

[techknight]

Hi @techknight , what you describe is the standard behavior.
One way to circumvent it is to try my dgActionBar lib.

udg

I will have to give it a try! I use your AppUpdating library which works awesome unless I had a ton of apps all using the same library installed on the same tablet. Then they all seem to fire at once when an app opens sometimes crashing it. Weeeee....

 

[Computersmith64]

I like your idea computersmith, However. My apps are tailored for not only millennials, but a large majority are Gen X, and even older. So the reason why I wanted my icons to stand out without "doing anything extra" is so it comes clearly to them.

My apps are targetted for the not so smart or experienced mobile users. Basically, I am writing apps for "old people"

However, I do have other apps for different things I think they would work great on. Such as my inventory system that I am slowly building (taking forever)

No worries. Fyi - just over 85% of the almost 800,000 people who have downloaded my Five Dice (Yahtzee) app are aged over 35. That app doesn't use the sliding menu (although it will soon), but does use a gear icon to access settings & quite a long standard menu (11 items). I have had very few users indicating they have issues finding their way around the app - but that's not to say that some don't. (I should point out that I'm in the 50+ category myself...)

- Colin.

 

[techknight]

Well again it depends on the level of common sense and experience. I am dealing with people... that.... ugh. Nevermind, its painful to think about.