[Solved] why use menu.findItem() and not findViewByID alone?
[ad_1] The difference is that the second line refers to menu to find its item and the first finds view in activity layout Doc for the first line: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#findViewById(int) Doc for the second line: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/Menu.html#findItem(int) [ad_2] solved why use menu.findItem() and not findViewByID alone?