onCreateOptionsMenu is never called

Question

I am having some trouble getting an options menu working in Android. I have built apps before, and they all worked fine, but now the menu just doesn\'t pop up.

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Answer 1

Maybe you also have overrode onKeyDown method and made it always return true. Returning true means that keyEvent will be prevented from being propagated further. See code below:

@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
        /*
          handling event
         */
        return true; //onCreateOptionsMenu won't be invoked.
}