Menu button

[robcassman]

How do I remove the menu button on the bottom of the screen? It is taking up real rotate!

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[scorpiodsu]

You can't. Its the menu button. Search "black bar" in this forum and read about the users arguing about it.

It's there because we have no menu key like some phones.

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[JRDroid]

More accurately, its there because some app developers have not updated there apps to conform to Google's UI policy of not relying on a hardware menu button and to integrate it into your app design. You'll notice apps that don't have the black bar all have a little three dot thing to get to the menu. Thats what Google wants and what these developers should be doing and aren't. Part of the blame also goes to Samsung for continuing to put menu buttons on their phones, again going against how Google wants Android to be used.

 

[mysidx]

More accurately, its there because some app developers have not updated there apps to conform to Google's UI policy of not relying on a hardware menu button and to integrate it into your app design. You'll notice apps that don't have the black bar all have a little three dot thing to get to the menu. Thats what Google wants and what these developers should be doing and aren't. Part of the blame also goes to Samsung for continuing to put menu buttons on their phones, again going against how Google wants Android to be used.

Well obviously A.C. app hasn't complied, cause I'm looking at my black bar now.

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[ratchetjaw#AC]

Well obviously A.C. app hasn't complied, cause I'm looking at my black bar now.

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Tapatalk, Facebook and a slew of games I play too

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[JRDroid]

Well obviously A.C. app hasn't complied, cause I'm looking at my black bar now.

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IIRC, Android Central is in the process of developing a new app. I believe they talked about it in one of the podcasts recently. They said their current app sucks, don't use it.

 

[Aquila]

In Ice Cream Sandwich, Q4 2011, Google demonstrated the minimum expectation of software buttons in a specific configuration that include a home button, back button and recent app button (notice that there is no menu included here). So far most phone manufacturers have refused to adopt the minimum requirements as outlined by the Nexus line and have instead opted to use archaic notions such as physical buttons, menu buttons and a slew of other silly, outdated concepts. Another great reason to support Nexus and to ignore Q2 devices entirely.

 

[JRDroid]

In Ice Cream Sandwich, Q4 2011, Google demonstrated the minimum expectation of software buttons in a specific configuration that include a home button, back button and recent app button (notice that there is no menu included here). So far most phone manufacturers have refused to adopt the minimum requirements as outlined by the Nexus line and have instead opted to use archaic notions such as physical buttons, menu buttons and a slew of other silly, outdated concepts. Another great reason to support Nexus and to ignore Q2 devices entirely.

I wouldn't go that far. I hate on screen buttons on a phone. On a tablet, where you have lots and lots of screen, they are fine. On a phone, where screen real estate is a premium, I don't want something taking up space that can easily be relocated to the bezel. I will only buy a phone with on screen buttons in one of the two following scenarios:
1. Every flagship phone has adopted them
2. They use the presence of on screen buttons to make the bottom bezel as thin as side bezels are now.

 

[robcassman]

You can't. Its the menu button. Search "black bar" in this forum and read about the users arguing about it.

It's there because we have no menu key like some phones.

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Thank you for not simply assuming that I have been following the endless amount of posts and saying "search the forums.." I don't understand why it is there on apps that don't even use it. When I press it nothing happens. Poor execution on an otherwise nice phone.

 

[adriandb]

Thank you for not simply assuming that I have been following the endless amount of posts and saying "search the forums.." I don't understand why it is there on apps that don't even use it. When I press it nothing happens. Poor execution on an otherwise nice phone.

Blame the app developers who haven't updated their apps.

 

[Fhenrus]

Sorry guys, but how do we operate unupdated apps without a menu key? I don't understand what the "black bar" is, sorry if is a repeated question.

 

[Danny Yang]

Yeah wasn't there something about double tapping the back button instead?
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[roflwaffleton]

Sorry guys, but how do we operate unupdated apps without a menu key? I don't understand what the "black bar" is, sorry if is a repeated question.

The "black bar" serves as the menu button.

 

[return_0]

I wouldn't go that far. I hate on screen buttons on a phone. On a tablet, where you have lots and lots of screen, they are fine. On a phone, where screen real estate is a premium, I don't want something taking up space that can easily be relocated to the bezel. I will only buy a phone with on screen buttons in one of the two following scenarios:
1. Every flagship phone has adopted them
2. They use the presence of on screen buttons to make the bottom bezel as thin as side bezels are now.

I don't understand what you're saying. You would prefer a larger bezel to a larger screen with some space taken up? I hope you realize that while software buttons take up screen space, physical buttons increase bezel. Plus, you could always use PIE.

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[Aquila]

I don't understand what you're saying. You would prefer a larger bezel to a larger screen with some space taken up? I hope you realize that while software buttons take up screen space, physical buttons increase bezel. Plus, you could always use PIE.

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Plus you could always ask DEVS to utilize button hiding things like full screen videos, the camera, etc. use that reduce the space taken up by buttons. If this was a conversation in Q2 2012 and OEM's hadn't adopted yet, okay I get there is a lag period and perhaps some push back... but this is nearly 18 months later since they saw the code for ICS and at least two API levels higher... KLP is coming out in approximately 3.57 weeks and we still haven't adopted the minimum standards. It's almost a joke. How can we move on in software development if we can't get the OEM's to put out devices that use the standards that we want the developers to adopt?