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Android

Posted by Tim Collins
Tim Collins
5,353 Points

Activity Bar not showing on RecipientsActivity. "Build a Self-Destructing Message Android App project" task 6 part 2

Hi all. I'm at a loss trying to show the activity bar on a new activity.

The activity bar shows fine on the main activity so I tried duplicating the menu_main.xml into the menu_recipients.xml file which didn't work (also tried changing the context to the new activity which didn't work).

The onCreateOptionsMenu functions are the same between the main activity and the new activity and the there is no theme set for the new activity in the manifest. Any help would be fantastic!

orbyt
orbyt
10,358 Points

AFAIK the menu.xml files are just for setting the options menu. A new one is usually created for each activity. These dont really have anything to do with setting an Activity Bar/Toolbar. What theme do you have set in your styles.xml file?