onCreateOptionsMenu isn't being called inside Fragments

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I know that this question has been asked quite a few times since I searched all over for an answer, but, sadly, I failed to find an answer mainly due to the fact that no one seems to be using the base Android classes for Fragments & instead they all use the Sherlock Fragment Class.

So first of all, I am not using any Sherlock Activity stuff or the Android Support Library. I'm just using the default Fragment class:

import android.app.Fragment import android.view.Menu import.android.view.MenuItem import.android.view.View //& so on...

This is onCreateView inside my Fragment

@Override public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,Bundle savedInstanceState) { ViewGroup root = (ViewGroup) inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment1, null); setHasOptionsMenu(true); return root; }

& this is onCreateOptionsMenu also inside the same Fragment

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { MenuInflater inflater = getActivity().getMenuInflater(); menu.clear(); inflater.inflate(R.menu.fragment1_menu, menu); //A lot of other code here return super.getActivity().onCreateOptionsMenu(menu); }

My base Main FragmentActivity class doesn't have an onCreateOptionsMenu itself but I don't suppose that, that should affect the Fragments.

Also, I cannot seem to override onCreateOptionsMenu, the error I get is; onCreateOptionsMenu must override or implement a supertype method.

So please if anyone has any ideas that could resolve this, I'd really appreciate it!

Thank you so much!

call setHasOptionsMenu(true) in your onCreate(..) in the Fragment — A.S.
– A.S., Commented Oct 19, 2013 at 14:13

CommonsWare · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-19 14:42:58Z

The method signature for onCreateOptionsMenu() is different in a Fragment than in an Activity, as is shown in the documentation.

Change your implementation to:

@Override public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) { inflater.inflate(R.menu.fragment1_menu, menu); //A lot of other code here super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater); }

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