Learning Material Design

Menus and dialogs

Menus are an important interface in most applications, and although primary actions should always be performed by more obvious means, such as a button, lists of secondary actions are usually best made available through a menu.

When using a material or AppCompat theme, most of the material metrics and scales for menus are applied automatically, but occasionally, there are times when we will want to customize a dialog to use as a menu. This section covers how to implement a few common menu features such as submenus, groups, and checkmarks; how to generate popup menus; and finally, how to construct custom dialogs using the material widget, CardView.

Menus

The menus used up until now in this chapter have been designed to demonstrate ...