Android Menu option not appearing in Android 4.4

Question

I have a options menu in my application which I have tested to work on Android 4.0. The code is as shown below:

@Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(         


        

Answer 1

Good practice is to call through to the super class:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
    MenuInflater menuInflater = getMenuInflater();
    menuInflater.inflate(R.layout.menu, menu);
    return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}

The reason you're not seeing the menu is probably that the device has a hardware menu button and that must be pressed to show the options menu.

Are you using the emulator? What is the setup for that?