Disable menubutton in the android emulator

Question

When developing applications for ICS - the actionbar looks different depending on if there is a physical menubutton present on the device or not.

For example if not, a virtual button is displayed in the actionbar.

Is it possible to emulate a device without a menubutton by disabling it somehow in the emulator?

Answer 1

Open the AVD Manager, ClickShow on Diskoption, Edit theconfig.inifile from the opened directory, findhw.mainKeysconfig and set it toyes`

hw.mainKeys = yes

Save the file and restart the AVD.

Refer screenshots below for more details

Answer 2

As @Yenchi said, tick on 'hw.mainKeys'. The virtual device will look like second picture.

Answer 3

With updated SDK tool (R22 as of this answer), the AVD manager editor no longer expose these options on the UI. You have to edit the config.ini of your AVD manually and change the following key from

hw.mainKeys=yes

to

hw.mainKeys=no

Answer 4

There is an option "hardware back/home keys". Specify the option and set it to "no" when creating the virtual device.