how to save menuitem visibility state through sharedpreferences?

Question

Hi In my app I add a menuitem on the action bar called "add to favorite" shown by white star icon. When user click it this icon become disappear and other yellow star icon item visibility comes up...this works fine..but the problem is that when I switch to another activity or when I restart my app the previous event has been lost. How can I save this through sharedpreferences? ?.. Here my code.

On prepareoptionmenu (Menu menu){
If (ffavClicked){
menu.finditem (R.id.id_favorite).setvisible (false);
menu.finditem (R.id.id_favorite 2). setvisible (true);
}
else if (! favClicked){
menu.finditem ( R.id.id_favorite).setvisible (true);
menu.finditem (R.id.id_favorite 2).setvisible (false);
}
return ssuper . onprepareoptionmenu (menu);
}

Gonick

Answer 1

i hope this will solve your problem!

in your activity define boolean first

public class Atherosclerosis extends Activity {

    boolean favClicked;

use this in your on create.

setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        SharedPreferences myPrefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
        favClicked = myPrefs.getBoolean("menu_item", false);

and then

 public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {


          SharedPreferences myPrefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
          final SharedPreferences.Editor editor = myPrefs.edit();
          favClicked = myPrefs.getBoolean("menu_item", false);


          switch (item.getItemId()) {
           case R.id.id_favorit:
                favClicked=true;
                editor.putBoolean("menu_item", favClicked);
                editor.commit();
                invalidateOptionsMenu();
                return true;

            case R.id.id_favorit2:

                favClicked=false;
                editor.putBoolean("menu_item", favClicked);
                editor.commit();
                invalidateOptionsMenu();
                return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item); 
            }
        return true;
        }
           @Override
            public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {


         if(favClicked==true){
               menu.findItem(R.id.id_favorit).setVisible(false);
                menu.findItem(R.id.id_favorit2).setVisible(true);

         }else{
           menu.findItem(R.id.id_favorit).setVisible(true);
            menu.findItem(R.id.id_favorit2).setVisible(false);

     }



                return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
            }


   }

Bruno

Answer 2

I hope this will help you:

@Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    SharedPreferences prefs = getSharedPreferences("YOURprefsName",
            Context.MODE_PRIVATE);

    ffavClicked = prefs.getBoolean("favClicked", false);

    if (ffavClicked){
        menu.finditem (R.id.id_favorite).setvisible (false);
        menu.finditem (R.id.id_favorite 2). setvisible (true);
    } else if (!ffavClicked){
        menu.finditem ( R.id.id_favorite).setvisible (true);
        menu.finditem (R.id.id_favorite 2).setvisible (false);
    }

    return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
}

@Override
protected void onPause() {
    SharedPreferences prefs = getSharedPreferences("YOURprefsName",
            Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
    prefs.edit().putBoolean("favClicked", ffavClicked).commit();

    super.onPause();
}

Wiseacre

Oppsss something wrong..now with this change, other item not appearing and the first one not disappear. . What should I do now? – Gonick

Not working please look what is missing..visibility option is not working – Gonick