A 64x64 pixel image with 10 pixel wide paddings from all sides. You are supposed to have 8 pixel wide paddings, but I find most default items being slightly smaller than that. Of course, you'll want to use different sizes for different densities.
drawable/rounded_square.xml
Here, #ff222222 (color #222222 with alpha #ff (fully visible)) is the background color of my Action Bar.
Here we make it clickable and updatable! I created an abstract listener that provides Toast creation on onLongClick, the code was taken from from the sources of ActionBarSherlock.
private int hot_number = 0;
private TextView ui_hot = null;
@Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(final Menu menu) {
MenuInflater menuInflater = getSupportMenuInflater();
menuInflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_actionbar, menu);
final View menu_hotlist = menu.findItem(R.id.menu_hotlist).getActionView();
ui_hot = (TextView) menu_hotlist.findViewById(R.id.hotlist_hot);
updateHotCount(hot_number);
new MyMenuItemStuffListener(menu_hotlist, "Show hot message") {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
onHotlistSelected();
}
};
return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}
// call the updating code on the main thread,
// so we can call this asynchronously
public void updateHotCount(final int new_hot_number) {
hot_number = new_hot_number;
if (ui_hot == null) return;
runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
if (new_hot_number == 0)
ui_hot.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
else {
ui_hot.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
ui_hot.setText(Integer.toString(new_hot_number));
}
}
});
}
static abstract class MyMenuItemStuffListener implements View.OnClickListener, View.OnLongClickListener {
private String hint;
private View view;
MyMenuItemStuffListener(View view, String hint) {
this.view = view;
this.hint = hint;
view.setOnClickListener(this);
view.setOnLongClickListener(this);
}
@Override abstract public void onClick(View v);
@Override public boolean onLongClick(View v) {
final int[] screenPos = new int[2];
final Rect displayFrame = new Rect();
view.getLocationOnScreen(screenPos);
view.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(displayFrame);
final Context context = view.getContext();
final int width = view.getWidth();
final int height = view.getHeight();
final int midy = screenPos[1] + height / 2;
final int screenWidth = context.getResources().getDisplayMetrics().widthPixels;
Toast cheatSheet = Toast.makeText(context, hint, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
if (midy < displayFrame.height()) {
cheatSheet.setGravity(Gravity.TOP | Gravity.RIGHT,
screenWidth - screenPos[0] - width / 2, height);
} else {
cheatSheet.setGravity(Gravity.BOTTOM | Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL, 0, height);
}
cheatSheet.show();
return true;
}
}