onCreateOptionsMenu not getting called in activity

Question

onCreateOptionsMenu not getting called, i have no clue whats going on

Here is my activity

class BasicLayoutActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_basic_layout)

        setSupportActionBar(toolbar)
    }

    override fun onCreateOptionsMenu(menu: Menu?): Boolean {
        super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu)
        menuInflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_basic_layout,menu)
        return true
    }

}

menu xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
      xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
      tools:context=".BasicLayoutActivity">

    <item android:id="@+id/like" android:title="like" app:showAsAction="always"
          android:icon="@drawable/ic_insert_emoticon_black_24dp"/>

</menu>

theme applied

<style name="BaseTheme" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.NoActionBar">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
</style>

And stackoverflow is showing me error that 'It looks like your post is mostly code, please add some more details :P'

Answer 1

I have created a new project for you and it works as charm.

Just remove setSupportActionBar(toolbar)

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
    }
    override fun onCreateOptionsMenu(menu: Menu?): Boolean {
        super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu)
        menuInflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_layout,menu)
        return true
    }
}

Answer 2

Removed include and it is working now

<include
            android:id="@+id/includeToolbar"
            layout="@layout/toolbar_white"/>

common toolbar

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        style="@style/WhiteToolbarStyle">

        <TextView
                style="@style/ToolbarTitleStyle"
                android:id="@+id/toolbarTitle"
                android:text="Basic Layout"/>

    </androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar>

This is not working, onCreateOptionsmenu not getting called

removed include, directly added to activity layout, now its working May be a bug in Androidx or my include file

Answer 3

Change parent theme to "Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar" or "Theme.MaterialComponents.Light.DarkActionBar" it seems you need "ActionBar" to hit "onCreateOptionsMenu"

<style name="BaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
</style>

then hide "ActionBar" as below on activity:

supportActionBar?.hide()