Dealing with Android devices without MENU key

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Published on 2010-06-04T08:18:04Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 4:52 UTC
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I'm told by some users that my Android app is not usable because their device does not have a MENU key.

What's the best way to deal with these devices? Is it possible to detect if the device lack a MENU key and show a menu button only in this case?

And most importantly, how do you test this in the simulator?

Thanks.

Edit: Apparently the problem was that the users didn't know that the Menu key was called the Menu key.

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