Where is the Menu button on Nexus 7?

[Mark Read]

Hello,

I have finished an App for a company and now they have tested it on a Nexus 7 and say that they have no "Menu" button.

I have programmed various items in the menu and now they cannot use it!

Can anyone help?

Regards
Mark

 

[Stulish]

I have added a screen shot of the menu on the Nexus 7, this is an app i created for a company, and in DEMO mode the menu button allows them to connect to different Bluetooth devices, thus the only item on the menu is 'Connect'.

The SMIDS2 copy.png shows a red circle where the menu button is

Hope this helps

Stu

 

[Mark Read]

The SMIDS2 copy.png shows a red circle where the menu button is

Sorry Stulish but I must be blind, where is the red circle?

 

[Mark Read]

:BangHead:

oops, first time I looked, there was only one picture, now there is two - sorry.

That means, pressing the three small dots will call a menu setup with Activity.AddMenuItem? Is this correct?

Many thanks
Mark

 

[Stulish]

Thats correct, i have tried this app out on a Samung S3 (that has a hardware menu button and on a 10 inch un branded tablet that has a software menu button along with the Nexus 7 (that the company are using for their system), and on the software menu buttons it is seen as 3 dots.

i didn't use any different code to add to the menu so you are correct i used:

Activity.AddMenuItem("Connect", "mnuConnect")

regards

Stu

 

[Mark Read]

Hopefully Solved - Thank you.

Stulish, thanks for the prompt reply. I have contacted my client and await his feedback. It could be that he was not aware of this function! :sign0098:

Best regards
Mark

 

[Mark Read]

Hello Stulish,

I don't know if you will read this but here's to hoping. Maybe even Erel is listening!

My client has tried again and says that the three dots are not visible. Could it be that this function must be turned on?

I have made a workaround, by trapping the back button and using Activity.ShowMenu with a new menu option to quit. I hope he is okay with this. But I would like to solve the original problem.

Regards
Mark

 

[Erel]

The three dots will appear at the bottom only if you are using the old style, which means that android:targetSdkVersion in the manifest editor is not set or set to a value lower than 11.

The new Android style puts the menu button in the action bar (the title bar).

 

[Mark Read]

Okay Erel, I'm getting a little out of my depth here but if I understand you correctly then you mean:

The file AndroidManifest.xml located in the objects subdirectory of my app directory. If correct, then this is present:

<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4" android:targetSdkVersion="14"/>

Thanks
Mark

 

[Stulish]

I changed my manifest from:

<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4" />

to:

<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="11" />

and the menu button disappeared because i do not show the title menu.

so i think Mark, you will either have to have a lower min SDK version or have a button to manually open the menu.

Regards

Stu

 

[Mahares]

@mark and Stu:
I ran a test for you on my Nexus 7. With the manifest showing:
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4" android:targetSdkVersion="14"/>
If I have the below code in the Activity_create:

Activity.AddMenuItem("COUNTRY","Visit")
Activity.AddMenuItem("CITY","Tour")

Then, the 3 dots appear on the action bar which is on the top right of the tablet. If I remove the AddMenuItem code completely from the Activity_Create, then the 3 dots do not appear at all.

When I change the manifest to this:
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4"/>
The menu (3 dots) appear at the bottom right hand corner of the tablet, regardless whethe I have any AddMenu code or not.

 

[Mark Read]

Many thanks for your help Stu, I will wait and see how the client finds my solution with the Back button.

If not then I will try the solution from Mahares (Thanks).

Regards
Mark