Chapter 12

Going à la Carte with Your Menu

Okay, I don't mean that kind of menu. Sure, I wish I were down at my favorite Mexican restaurant, ordering some excellent chips and salsa, but I'm not. Instead, I'm talking about menus inside an Android application!

Android tablets provide a simple mechanism for you to add menus to your applications. You find the following types of menus:

• Action bar: The action bar is a new addition to Android 3.0. The action bar contains the most commonly used menu options you would encounter in a tablet application. These menu options, located in the upper-right side of the application screen, appear as icons with text or simply as text references to the action that they perform.