How to force use of overflow menu on devices with menu button

Question

I\'d like to have all of the menu items that don\'t fit into the ActionBar go into the overflow menu (the one that is reached from the Action Bar not the menu button) ev

Answer 1

In the gmail app that comes with ICS pre-installed, the menu button is disabled when you have multiple items selected. The overflow menu is here "forced" to be triggered by the use of the overflow button instead of the physical menu button. Theres a 3rd-party lib called ActionBarSherlock which lets you "force" the overflow menu. But this will only work on API level 14 or lower(pre-ICS)