[android-developers] Menus handled differently in 4.2 on phone and tablet?

Hi,

I'm trying to adapt a phone app for tablets and have run into a problem. When the menu button is pressed, it displays the context menu in the usual way at the bottom of the screen, for phone AVD's but not tablets. I confirmed this with a simple test application, created with the "Android Application" template. If I set the target SDK to 10 or less, then I get the bottom menu for both phone and tablet, but I want to target 17 for other reasons. The only way to show the menu items, on the tablet running 4.2, is in the action bar. But this would break compatibility with 2.x, and I hadn't been planning on using it.

Very strange that the tablet and phone, both running 4.2, would behave differently, but I've seen one or two postings that suggest what I'm seeing is real. The only suggested solutions have been to change the target SDK to <= 10, which as mentioned is unacceptable to me.

Any clarifications as to why I should be seeing this behavior and suggestions for a work-around would be much appreciated.

TIA,

Matthew Fleming

DermVision

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