Android : How To Handle Android Device Without Menu Button?
Nov 21, 2010
I have a couple of apps currently in the marketplace and they follow the Android design guidelines as close as possible. One of the people who purchased my app says he's using it on a device without a 'menu' button. The device is a Eken M0002, a 7" tablet running Android 1.6 I know that tablets are not officially supported yet. My question is, has anyone started dealing with this potential issue, and if so how?
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Nov 11, 2010
Kind of new to Android, and definitely don't know too much about the devices. I was wondering whether every android device out there has a menu and back button? I just wanna make sure we could assume this as a fact...
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Apr 13, 2012
I've installed several apps that are supposed to have features that I can't even find. For example, I installed "Writer". This is supposed to have text formatting features (bold, italic, font size). But, after highlighting some text, I can't find anything that triggers a "Format" menu. A long tap on selected text will bring up a Cut & Paste menu. But if there's a Format menu, I haven't found it, yet.
I'm using Writer as an example, but I've tried half a dozen apps now that are listed as having certain features. Sometimes the program menu is the little checkerboard icon next to the Honeycomb task switcher at the bottom of the screen, but on many apps this menu is empty of anything useful. Some programs have an icon on the top of the screen that triggers a menu, but on others I've tapped on everything I can find and found no extra controls.
Is there some common screen gesture that I haven't discovered yet? Are developers listing future features that don't exist yet? Did Gingerbread have some context menu feature that's missing in Honeycomb? And is there some reason developers don't bother to provide a paragraph or two explaining how to use their product?
btw - I have an Acer A100 7 inch tablet, running generic Honeycomb 3.2 and downloading apps from GooglePlay. My device doesn't have a hardware Menu button, maybe that's the problem?
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Oct 5, 2010
I am trying to implement smth like context menu but with icons ..
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May 9, 2010
How to handle the key events for HOME, MENU, BACK after making these keys as a soft keys?
Requirement: The Device doesn't going to have any hard keys. So we want to bring these keys as a soft key and handle these keys events.
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Jul 9, 2010
I want to disable the view change on device rotation for the time being. Its giving foreclose error when i rotate the device and starts all over again.
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Oct 25, 2010
I need to handle home button, redirection of home button on customize way.
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Feb 13, 2009
Can any one tell me how to handle the device back key navigation? Because i want to use this action as coming back to my application screen. Here i used only one Activity for building all screens.
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Oct 25, 2010
I want to handle the back button in customize way. What to do.
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Nov 21, 2010
I read a lot about handling rotation in android applications, but I still have so many questions and need to much to understand. Let me explain my problem or implementation, that I'm using now in my application. If an activity will be opened, a get request will be sent to server. This request will be executed in a Thread (new Thread(...)) and if request was completed, activity's ui will be refreshed. But what should I do, if the user rotate his device?
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Mar 16, 2010
I'm thinking about using a ViewFlipper for an Wizard like Activity. But I see one problem with this approach. The back button. Will the back button go back to the last shown activity or will the the Viewflipper somehow catch the back button event and only change to the last shown activity?
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Aug 22, 2010
I have an onKeyDown event which is only needed for handling the Up and Down hardware keys in my app. For these it returns true, as they are handled. For anything else it returns false which I understand means that the OS should handle them. However, when I press the Back button, my onKeyDown is called and returns false, but there is no other effect. I want/would expect the OS to finish the current Activity and resume the previous one.
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Oct 29, 2009
Does anyone know how to handle Android HTC device Red (power) button programatically to stop my operation. I want to stop running some of my operation when user presses REd button when user is in my screen. I know for other buttons like Back button i could use "keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK" event. But what is for Power(End) Red button? I'm not getting any keycode events for Red button when i'm in my application.
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Nov 6, 2009
I have a simple edit control in my application and as expected the soft keypad comes up on tapping it. Now what I want to do is that when the user presses the back button, the activity should quit immediately without the soft keypad going down first. On handling the key event in my activity i found that the first 'Back' event is consumed by the keyboard and it does not even reach the activity. However once the soft keypad goes down, the events can be handled in my activity. Is there any way to override this behavior so that the back button first reaches my activity and I can quit immediately.
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Jul 8, 2010
I can't figure this out. Some apps have a EditText (textbox) which, when you touch it and it brings up the on-screen keyboard, the keyboard has a "Search" button instead of an enter key.I want to implement this. How can I implement that Search button and detect press of the Search button?
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Jun 8, 2010
In my application i have a button initially on the screen and in onclick of the button ,popup window should open. In the popup window i have an imagebutton , now on click of this button i want to start an activity. The popup window opens but i dont understand how to handle the onclick of the imagebtn inside popup window.
In main.xml i have a button and in popup_example.xml i have an imagebutton.
Java code is as follows:
CODE:..........
And i have two xml layouts.........
CODE:..................
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Nov 12, 2010
Suppose I have something like an alarm activity which launches the alarm through the lock screen, accomplished via
getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_SHOW_WHEN_LOCKED);
getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TURN_SCREEN_ON);
Now, from here I could press the back button to kill the activity, but I also want a press of the lock button to silence the alarm. How would I go about creating a handler for presses of the lock screen button?
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Oct 8, 2010
When my android activity pops up a progress dialog, what is the right way to handle when user clicks the back button?
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Nov 7, 2012
i update ics in spice mi355 bt in my phone status in about phn only 2.3.6 only show it bt looks are change.and menu button change to option button clockwise.hw do i knw whther ics change in phn or nt?bt file is download in our forum 1ly size is 90 mb.
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May 1, 2010
Been an increasing amount of talk lately about Froyo (2.2) and how it will have flash and all that jazz. I use a non-rooted, standard ROM Droid, and I'm wondering how well it will handle all of these improvements. I assume the newer android devices with their gHz processors will do fine, but how do you think us Droid users will fair? And don't just say it can handle it. I know it will work, but how well is my question?
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Jul 22, 2010
Recently the home and menu buttons of my HTC hero broke down. I found an app, "soft home" which creates a home button in the notification bar.Does anyone know of an app which does the same thing for the menu button? While Im on it, a second question: My browser which is the default browser of the hero goes full screen. This causes the notification bar to dissappear thus making the home button app useless. Does anyone know how to turn this fullscreen feature off/know a good browser which does not do so.
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Jul 27, 2010
I was wondering if it is possible to customize the icon used for the More menu option (displayed when there are more than 6 menu options)? With the stock vanilla Android UI it appears as a disclosure-type arrow and on HTC Sense UI it's an ellipsis icon. Curious if these are fixed icons only defined in the Android resources or if there is a way to programmatically set them?
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Sep 15, 2010
Is there a way for a button to call a submenu? I currently have a menu where if they select one of the options it opens a submenu, however I want to be able to start the submenu from the Button widget instead of the Menu object.
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May 14, 2010
I am using following code to open Android Contacts
CODE:.............
Now i want to put Button at the top of this Contact activity when opened or add my own Menu in this Activity.
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Apr 15, 2010
I have HTC Hero and I've found out that dragging down on the touch is not the only way to unlock the phone. If you press the menu button, it unlocks the phone, too. I don't know whether it's problem of the HTC device, Android or bad feature definition.
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Jun 6, 2010
I m a novice in android.. i want to add a button or menu item in message inbox or email. how can i do so.
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May 4, 2010
May someone please tell me how to change the text "More" of "More Button" in an expanded menu to other strings?
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Oct 30, 2010
You need to have Internet permission. Instead of using thewebview, you are better off using the Bowser activity for this.
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Jul 27, 2010
How can I capture a long press of the device menu button in my application?I thought of an intent filter, but there's only an action called android.intent.action.SEARCH_LONG_PRESS, but nothing for the MENU button.I found that long press of the menu button actually does different things on different devices,i.e. on Nexus One it will show the soft keyboard, while on Samsung Galaxy S it will pop up the search widget.
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May 20, 2010
I recently started Android programming and was working on my first program which displays a historic text document, sectioned by tabs via TabHost.I have limited my program to one activity and merely used setContent in my TabSpec's to switch between different XML views.The document has both unedited and corrected versions of the text for which I have built text views to accommodate. I wanted to implement the standard menu to have buttons to "view corrected" and "view original" and switch the content of the tabs which have changes (without altering the tabs or their indicators).I've read on the TabHost API and there is no way to edit existing tab content with setContent() of TabSpec; and AFAIK TabWidget only affects the actual tabs, not the content that is displayed upon pressing them.I've thought about creating a new class which extended TabHost and super() all of the original methods, while including one more which updated the mTabSpec list.
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