How to disable/hide three-dot indicator(Option menu indicator) on ICS handsets

Question

How to disable/hide three-dot indicator(Option menu indicator) on ICS handsets which does\'t have menu button. ?

I am running application as

Answer 1

Just want to improve @war_hero answer. If You wanna set the visibility on run time You can use oncreateoptions menu parameter like this

Menu overflow;

 @Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.mymenu, menu);
    this.overflow = menu;
    return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}

and then make a function to show or hide any menu item according to the index. for e.g.

public void hideorShowMenuItems(boolean bool){
   overflow.getItem(1).setVisible(bool);
   overflow.getItem(2).setVisible(bool);
   overflow.getItem(3).setVisible(bool);
   overflow.getItem(4).setVisible(bool);
   overflow.getItem(5).setVisible(bool);
}

Answer 2

Override onPrepareOptionsMenu() in the fragment of the preference with this:

@Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuItem item= menu.findItem(R.id.menu_settings);
    item.setVisible(false);
    super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
    return true;
}

if you have more then one item set all the items visibility flag to false

and add the command setHasOptionsMenu(true); to the onCreate command

after you will set all the visibility of the items to false the menu will disappear

on activity, the only difference is the onPrepareOptionsMenu is boolean and you don't need to add the setHasOptionsMenu(true); command on the creation

Answer 3

I just deleted the method :

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(com.actionbarsherlock.view.Menu menu) {
    getSupportMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
    return true;
}

then that three-dot-menu goes away (:

Hope it helps.

Answer 4

I just used

 @Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
    return true;
}

Where R.menu.main is only an empty menu xml

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" ></menu>

Answer 5

override method and return false remember of not call super

 @Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    return false;
}

Answer 6

 @Override
 public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
       return false;
 }