Opening submenu in action bar on Hardware menu button click

Question

Title explains everything. I want to open a submenu in actionbar when clicking Hardware menu button

This is the code and it works fine first time i click menu. Every

Answer 1

Try this:

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) 
{
    super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);// <--- add this

    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.options, menu);
    mainMenu = menu;
    return true;
}

//override this method instead of onKeyDown()....
@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) 
{
    super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);      

    int menuId = item.getItemId();      
    if(menuId == R.id.settings)
    {
        //do settings   
    }
    //else if(menuId = ...) {....}

    return true;
}