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Asked: 2026-06-11T23:50:43+00:00

my question is this: Can I disable menu button for a certain amount of

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my question is this:

Can I disable menu button for a certain amount of time? I mean setting from ym app that for the next 10 minutes for example, if I press menu nothing will happen, even if I am in other app. After that time is pressed, menu functionalith will be retrieved.

My app will run in the backgrounf of course and will check the time, but I do not know if it is possible to “disable” that button. I am not asking on how to implement the time, but on how to disable the menu button.

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  1. Editorial Team

    How does it work?

    The menu-event is handled inside the Android Framework. The framework consumes the KEYCODE_MENU. With other words, the event will not be dispatched and will never arrive in your application layer. This means, you can not override this functionality.

    When you are building a new platform, you can alter the framework yourself. Inside the PhoneWindowManager (where the default KeyEvents are being handled like KEYCODE_HOME) you can add logic to handle the KEYCODE_MENU inside the method interceptKeyBeforeDispatching(..).

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