onCreateOptionsMenu is never called

Question

I am having some trouble getting an options menu working in Android. I build apps before, and they all worked fine, but now the menu just doesn't pop up.

The code:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);

    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_video, menu);
    return true;
}

the whole method is never even called (checked by setting a breakpoint). The activity is super-simple, it just has a VideoView in it, with an OnTouchListener set.

I am using Android 4.0.4 on a Samsung Galaxy 10.1, API level 15, minSDK 15. Am I missing something?

Answer 1

In the method: Fragment#onCreateView(...) you should put:

setHasOptionsMenu(true);

Then your method will be called.

Answer 2

Call setHasOptionsMenu function from onCreate first. The onCreateOptionsMenu will be automatically called.

Answer 3

I had the same issue. My problem was solved by inheritance of a different activity class.

So I had been doing:

public class WelcomeActivity extends Activity

but changed this to:

public class WelcomeActivity extends AppCompatActivity

This way I was saying that say an action bar can be added to your activity.