This library offers a simple method to add a small badge icon to your ActionBar-MenuItem
This library offers a simple method to add a small badge icon to your ActionBar-MenuItem
ActionItemBadge is a library which offers a simple and easy to use method to add a badge to your action item!
The ActionItemBadge Library is pushed to [Maven Central], so you just need to add the following dependency to your build.gradle.
dependencies {
implementation 'com.mikepenz:actionitembadge:4.0.0'
//SUB-DEPENDENCIES
//Android-Iconics - used to provide an easy API for icons
implementation 'com.mikepenz:iconics-core:{latestVersion}@aar'
}If you are going to use the icon font you will have to add additional dependency for the font. You can find all available addons here: https://github.com/mikepenz/Android-Iconics#2-choose-your-desired-fonts
### Activity
Override the onCreateOptionsMenu method
```java
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
//you can add some logic (hide it if the count == 0)
if (badgeCount > 0) {
ActionItemBadge.update(this, menu.findItem(R.id.item_samplebadge), FontAwesome.Icon.faw_android, ActionItemBadge.BadgeStyles.DARK_GREY, badgeCount);
} else {
ActionItemBadge.hide(menu.findItem(R.id.item_samplebadge));
}
//If you want to add your ActionItem programmatically you can do this too. You do the following:
new ActionItemBadgeAdder().act(this).menu(menu).title(R.string.sample_2).itemDetails(0, SAMPLE2_ID, 1).showAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS).add(bigStyle, 1);
return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}If you want to update the item itself you can do the required stuff in the onOptionsItemSelected method and call invalidateOptionsMenu() afterwards.
@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
int id = item.getItemId();
if (id == R.id.item_samplebadge) {
Toast.makeText(this, R.string.sample_3, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
badgeCount--;
ActionItemBadge.update(item, badgeCount);
return true;
} else if (id == SAMPLE2_ID) {
Toast.makeText(this, R.string.sample_4, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}Copyright 2019 Mike Penz
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