[android-developers] Re: buggy legacy options menu on Samsung S4

Sorry, I did not realize, there was a ZIP file. I was thinking the download button is just some big graphic and my "visual parser" in my head discarded it :-D

Your activity is as simple as it can get and I cannot spot any mistake. It really may be just some rare firmware glitch and nothing much to worry about. Unfortunately we have to deal with these random device-specific oddities all the time.

If you really want to work around that issue you could make use of an action bar and move the most important and relevant menu options there.


On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 11:01:17 AM UTC-5, Jay Howard wrote:

I'm seeing the following behavior (on a Samsung S4, but potentially also on other Samsung devices) in an app that uses a "legacy" options menu:

1. User taps hardware menu button to bring up options menu.  There are more than six items in the menu.
2. User taps the bottom-right "more" button to access the overflow menu items.
3. User taps the hardware back button to return to the initial options menu.
4. User taps any combination of menu items, potentially multiple times each.  Nothing happens.  onOptionsItemSelected() is never called.
5. User taps the hardware back button to close the options menu.
6. User taps the hardware menu button to display the options menu again.  At this point, onOptionsItemSelected() is called in quick succession for each menu item the user tapped when the menu was previously displayed.

Can anyone advise?

I've created a simple demo app to demonstrates the behavior along with a video that shows exactly what I'm talking about.  There's also a screenshot with device info for the device I tested on.  I've shared them here:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6DvDY2BvxUTRUNxWFVUNDl4QlU

The demo app implements onCreateOptionsMenu() and onOptionsItemSelected() nearly identically to the examples given here:

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/menus.html#options-menu

I posted this question on StackOverflow a while back, but none of the responses were helpful:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17180909/options-menu-locks-up-on-galaxy-s4

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