Coming from cyanogenmod for many years. Is it possible to add the menu/... always on the bottom bar? I cannot seem to find this in the options... If not with stock, is there an xposed mod that will do this?
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Dear friends,
for an unknown reason I cannot access my " Settings" whatever you call it from the below right hand corner of the screen as it used to be, it's no longer there. The only other option of getting the phone settings is from on top of the screen which I do not like. Thanks for your help.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app
In ICS Android no longer has the menu button. Instead, apps now use the action bar. Any overflow from said bar now displays as 3 dots, which include actions such as settings.
Apps that haven't been updated to the new API's will display the 3 dots next to the multi-task button.
However, some custom roms allow you to persistently add the menu button to the navigation bar.
So, the short answer to your question would be to flash a custom rom.
Better get used to hitting the 3 dots, as Google is intent on phasing out the menu button
If you install a custom rom you can add the menu as a soft key
El Daddy said:
In ICS Android no longer has the menu button. Instead, apps now use the action bar. Any overflow from said bar now displays as 3 dots, which include actions such as settings.
Apps that haven't been updated to the new API's will display the 3 dots next to the multi-task button.
However, some custom roms allow you to persistently add the menu button to the navigation bar.
So, the short answer to your question would be to flash a custom rom.
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Thanks but I have always had the Menu Bar since when I bought it and there is no software upgrade up till now.
Is there a way to get the system to not add the menu button to various google programs? I'm running AOKP and I've got the menu button added to the navbar. Consequently, I want to get rid of it in the apps. Also, I would like the menu to pop up at the bottom and not the top. I would think this would be highly desired. What am I missing?
the menu inside the applications is built into the app itself. you wont be able to remove it unless you decompile the APK's and remove the menu yourself
I thought that the program used a signal from the system to determine if it has a menu button and uses that to determine the need for it. Does the Galaxy S III still get this button in apps like the play store and gmail? I don't know, but I would think not.
So from my research, it seems that the "overflow menu", as it is now called, only appears in the "action bar" when there is no menu button present on the device. For legacy devices that run ICS, it seems that android will detect that a menu button is present and not show the "overflow menu".
So basically, I'm wondering how I can trick the Galaxy Nexus into thinking there is a menu button present. This really should be an option for current roms as lots of people add the menu button to the navbar.
You have to hide the navbar to get what you want. When I use LMT and disable the navbar, the action button in all apps no longer appears. There is some api that tells the action bar menu to appear or not just like you want.
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You have to hide the navbar to get what you want. When I use LMT and disable the navbar, the action button in all apps no longer appears. There is some api that tells the action bar menu to appear or not just like you want.
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What is LMT?
From my searchings, that seems to be what I've found. there is a methods called "hasPermanentMenuKey()" to return true this requires that there not be a navbar. Unfortunately, this kinda kills things as the whole point of hiding it was because I had a menu key in my navbar.
Thanks so much for the helpful reply!!!
Hi all developers!
I've recently enabled Navigation bar ( qemu.hw.mainkeys=0 ) in my note 2
However I found out the Dialer/Call log has an additional MENU BAR on top, blocking the view of some call logs thus quite ugly. I've tried changing DPI although the blocked call logs become "visible", the whole call log screen is somewhat ugly because of the stuff become smaller and not proportionate.
Also, I found out many other apps start showing "3 dot Menu" on the top right corner once I've enabled the Navigation bar. But I'm not interested in seeing all these, since I've my hardware Menu key working so I really don't need the additional MENU BAR or 3 dot menu.
Can anyone help me to get rid of 3 dot menu? I've been deep investigation on this from recompiling SystemUI.apk (which replaced the recent app soft button to menu button), but it's still not hiding the MENU BAR and 3 dot menu.
Recently I saw AOKP or AOSP ROM has this feature (Menu UI Overflow Toggle) I believe is what I'm looking for, can't be sure what it does until someone confirm this to me
The source code is here:
https://github.com/TeamSourcery/frameworks_base/commit/1477d1acc1303174aa1c23d28d64fb36d4268742
Anyone know how can I use the code above (where to modify and recompile my 4.1.2 rooted deodexed ROM) and remove the annoying 3 dot menu?
Many thanks your help is greatly appreciated!!!!!
truemagic said:
Hi all developers!
I've recently enabled Navigation bar ( qemu.hw.mainkeys=0 ) in my note 2
However I found out the Dialer/Call log has an additional MENU BAR on top, blocking the view of some call logs thus quite ugly. I've tried changing DPI although the blocked call logs become "visible", the whole call log screen is somewhat ugly because of the stuff become smaller and not proportionate.
Also, I found out many other apps start showing "3 dot Menu" on the top right corner once I've enabled the Navigation bar. But I'm not interested in seeing all these, since I've my hardware Menu key working so I really don't need the additional MENU BAR or 3 dot menu.
Can anyone help me to get rid of 3 dot menu? I've been deep investigation on this from recompiling SystemUI.apk (which replaced the recent app soft button to menu button), but it's still not hiding the MENU BAR and 3 dot menu.
Recently I saw AOKP or AOSP ROM has this feature (Menu UI Overflow Toggle) I believe is what I'm looking for, can't be sure what it does until someone confirm this to me
The source code is here:
https://github.com/TeamSourcery/frameworks_base/commit/1477d1acc1303174aa1c23d28d64fb36d4268742
Anyone know how can I use the code above (where to modify and recompile my 4.1.2 rooted deodexed ROM) and remove the annoying 3 dot menu?
Many thanks your help is greatly appreciated!!!!!
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Wrong section bud, this should be in QA or Themes
Hello all
Just a quick question regarding the "action bar" I hope it's what it's called, the lower band on your screen where we have the back button home button and recent app button. Anyways,y question is, is there any app that can add like an extension to the bar to give additional functionality ?
To make my question more clear, I downloaded 360 launcher and noticed that the developer has managed to add 3 dots on the left of this bar, which when touched comes up the settings option for the launcher. How did they do that ? My phone is stock and not even rooted. But I find having an option to add something like this would be extremely useful...like placing custom shortcuts. Just look at the pictures too.
ebinmoothedam said:
Hello all
Just a quick question regarding the "action bar" I hope it's what it's called, the lower band on your screen where we have the back button home button and recent app button. Anyways,y question is, is there any app that can add like an extension to the bar to give additional functionality ?
To make my question more clear, I downloaded 360 launcher and noticed that the developer has managed to add 3 dots on the left of this bar, which when touched comes up the settings option for the launcher. How did they do that ? My phone is stock and not even rooted. But I find having an option to add something like this would be extremely useful...like placing custom shortcuts. Just look at the pictures too.
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There's a lot of stuff you can check up on and try...
[APP][4.0+]Ultimate Dynamic Navbar - Development temp stopped.
[MOD][Xposed] Xtended NavBar
There is also Softkeyz on the play store (Paid app)
Hi,
Is there any way to disable this feature? [hiding of both status bar and navigational soft keys]. Can't say I particularly like it.
I use custom PA ROM and it doesn't have ability to disable it with power button ...
Help would be much appreciated.
EDIT: option can be turned on/off in tiled settings in drop-down status bar ... sorry overlooked that