Disabling Android menu button in PhoneGap Build

Question

When creating an Android app using PhoneGap Build, how can I prevent the system from adding the menu button at the bottom of the screen?

From Disabling menu button in Android using PhoneGap, I got that when using pure PhoneGap, the solution appears to be to comment out the onCreateOptionsMenu function in MainActivity.java. However, when using PhoneGap Build, I obviously do not have access to any java files.

So what is the solution for PhoneGap Build?

• Is there a special option that needs to be set in the config.xml?
• Can it be disabled via the JavaScript event handler for the menu button?
• Any other ideas?

Answer 1

http://android-developers.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/say-goodbye-to-menu-button.html mentions one solution that works for me:

...to ensure that the overflow action button never appears beside the system navigation, you should set the targetSdkVersion to 14.

Note also that:

...you can leave minSdkVersion at something much lower to continue supporting older devices.

The above can be set in the config.xml.