How to read attributes set in menu markup in ActionView?

Question

Android

The situation is quite trivial. The project uses ActionBarSherlock.
There is an XML file with menu markup for the bar:

<item
    android:id="@+id/id"
    android:actionViewClass="com.my.package.CustomView"
    android:icon="@drawable/icon"
    android:showAsAction="always"
    android:title="@string/title"/>

As you can see, the customView class is used as markup for the menu item.
The problem is that you have to set the parameters specified in XML manually in Java code through the methods of the CustomView itself, duplicating what is written in XML:

CustomView v = ((CustomView) menu.findItem(R.id.refresh).getActionView());
v.setTitle(R.string.title);
v.setIcon(R.drawable.icon);
// ...

Is there a way to read the markup from the CustomView itself - on initialization, for example?

Answer 1

Use android.view.MenuItem methods: getTitle(), getIcon(),…