Menu ISSUES with some Android 4.x devices

Question

I have an app that has been working fine, but suddenly some users running 4.0 devices (not all) are claiming the menu isn't working...

I have a menu with more than 6 options or whatever Android shows by default. The users are complaining that when they click on the MORE button that shows the remaining options, the pop up list showing all the other options appears but they can't click on any of the options. The list that pops up does not accept any user actions other than the back button, which closes it.

Does anyone have any idea WHY this would be going on? I am unable to reproduce the error on any device I have or on any emulator that I have.... I am assuming I am dealing with some fragmentation issue or OS change issue as the code is about as basic as it can be.

Anyone have any ideas? Was menuing significantly changed in some way that could cause this to happen?

Answer 1

if i understood you issue properly then I had faced a similar type of issue,

issue--2.x has one dedicated key for menu but in 4.x do not has so we need check that in on create..

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.app_list);
        checkMenu();
                   //other stuff
        }
@SuppressLint("NewApi")
    public void checkMenu() {
    boolean hasMenu = ViewConfiguration.get(this).hasPermanentMenuKey();
        if (!hasMenu) {
            try {
    getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.class.getField( "FLAG_NEEDS_MENU_KEY").getInt(null));
        } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
        }
        }
    }