Disabling menu button in Android using PhoneGap

Question

I'm building my first mobile app using PhoneGap and jQuery Mobile, and I've run into a little issue.

I've been testing it on Android, both on a physical device and the emulator. As this application is very simple and has nothing much in the way of settings, I'd like to disable the Menu button.

Now, the impression I got from the PhoneGap documentation is that you need to add an event listener for the menubutton event in order to override the default behaviour, and use preventDefault to stop the default action taking place. Try as I might, I can't seem to get it to work. The code I've written for it is on JSFiddle.

Is this possible? If so, any idea where I'm going wrong?

EDIT: Should really have mentioned the version - I'm using PhoneGap 2.0.

Answer 1

I had the same problem. Seems to be a new default in PhoneGap 2.0.

In the .java file under the src folder (MainActivity.java appears to be the default file name), comment out onCreateOptionsMenu function.