Android: How to add listener to hardware menu button?

Question

I\'m currently trying to add a click listener to the menu hardware button. Currently I\'m just putting my onclick logic into the onCreatePanelMenu-method and return false. B

Answer 1

Catch the key event inside onKeyDown() and add your action there.

Sample:

@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keycode, KeyEvent e) {
    switch(keycode) {
        case KeyEvent.KEYCODE_MENU:
            doSomething();
            return true;
    }

    return super.onKeyDown(keycode, e);
}

Just replace doSomething() with your functionality/methods.