is Disabling Menu Button possible?

Question

I am trying to make a restricted android launcher for some people. The key features that I am trying is

Giving Access to Selected App to be laucnched.
Disable the button that allows to show user to show every app installed on the phone
Disable physical button (menu) in order to restrict user to go in to "Settings" menu of Android.

If these features are possible, it would be great if you could link me any examples or explain how to do this.

Thank you.

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 12 '14 at 08:09

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@Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu (Menu menu) {
    return false;
}

Documentation says:

You must return true for the menu to be displayed; if you return false it will not be shown.

answered Feb 12 '14 at 08:09

Chintan Soni

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This disables all things menu related. I want the overflow menu button in the action bar, but just want to disable the hardware menu button. – user2968401 Jun 11 '15 at 23:38
@user2968401 For that I guess, you will need to read this post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9286822/how-to-force-use-of-overflow-menu-on-devices-with-menu-button – Chintan Soni Jun 12 '15 at 02:40

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 12 '14 at 08:01

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Override the onPrepareOptionsMenu

public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu (Menu menu) {
   return false;
}

answered Feb 12 '14 at 08:01

silly

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If possible, it would be helpful that you could explain what this code does.. since I am not used to android coding.. thx.. – Jae Park Feb 12 '14 at 08:03

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 29 '16 at 12:01

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Check the AndroidDoc

Implement the keylistener and Override the onKeyDown method

@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
    boolean clickedPhysicalMenu = false;
    if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_MENU) {
        clickedPhysicalMenu = true;
    }
    return clickedPhysicalMenu;
}

edited Nov 29 '16 at 12:01

Jason

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answered Feb 12 '14 at 08:01

Nambi

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If possible, it would be helpful that you could explain what this code does.. since I am not used to android coding.. thx – Jae Park Feb 12 '14 at 08:04
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This is incorrect to disable the menu key you should return true to prevent further propagation of the event see [link]https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#onKeyDown(int, android.view.KeyEvent)[link] `@Override public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) { if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_MENU) { return true; } return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event); }` – Aaron Dancygier Jan 19 '15 at 08:13

is Disabling Menu Button possible?

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