Handling the missing MENU button in new versions of Android (3.x and up)

Question

I\'m a fan of the menu button as used in Android <3.0, as it was very useful for my game apps - it allowed me to take important but gameplay irrelevant functionality (sav

Answer 1

I added a special logic for 3.x releases. Only for these releases I use the action bar.

            if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT == Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB
             || Build.VERSION.SDK_INT == Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB_MR1
             || Build.VERSION.SDK_INT == Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB_MR2) {
                requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR);        
            }
            else{
//              hide the status bar, do not use action bar         
                requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);    
                getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);               
            }

For all other releases I display my own menu button and run my game in fullscreen mode. When pressing my menu button, I use the following code line, where "act" is the current activity.

act.openOptionsMenu();

As part of your menu xml, make sure to have a line like this to set "showAsAction"

showAsAction="ifRoom"