Question

My app provides a menu which can be reached by clicking the Android menu button.
As Google removed the hardware menu button since 3.0 there is a software emuated button (typically 3 dots) on the screen to access the menu.

A lot of users with a Google Nexus phone complain now that since they updated to 4.1.2 that the menu button does not appear.

Here the code:

@Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        menu.add(0, 0, Menu.NONE, this.getString(R.string.setting));
        menu.add(0, 1, Menu.NONE, this.getString(R.string.config));
        return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
    }

What do I have to change to bring the button back also on 4.1.2?

Answer 1

I had the same problem on tablets and now it seems to be generalized to phones also. The only solution is either to add an ActionBar (you’ll get then you menu entries in it automatically) or to make the android:targetSdkVersion below 11.