onCreateOptionsMenu not being called

onCreateOptionsMenu does not get called in a fragment. I have to manually call setHasOptionsMenu(true) in onCreatedView() but this causes the item.itemId be an empty String "" in the onOptionsItemSelected() and therefore i can’t detect which menu item was tapped.

I’m currently using this in a fragment:

override fun onCreateOptionsMenu(menu: Menu, inflater: MenuInflater) {
    super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater)
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_font_share, menu)
}

override fun onOptionsItemSelected(item: MenuItem): Boolean {
    when (item.itemId) {
        R.id.menu_font_size_Btn -> {

        }
        R.id.menu_share_Btn -> {
            super.showShareSheet()
        }
    }

    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item)
}

Answer

Call super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu,inflater) after menu inflate

override fun onCreateOptionsMenu(menu: Menu, inflater: MenuInflater) {
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_font_share, menu)
    super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu,inflater)
}

This may more help Ref :: https://stackoverflow.com/a/15654039/11393354

try this,

@Override
public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_sample, menu);
    super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu,inflater);
}

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And in onCreate add this line to make the options appear in your Toolbar

setHasOptionsMenu(true);