Sensibility Testbed on Android assumes menu button

[choksi81]

SeattleOnAndroid assumes it's running on devices that will have (physical or other) menu buttons. These buttons are required to reach some of its functions, e.g. displaying the logs. On newer devices and in recent Android revisions, we should be using an ''!ActionBar'' instead, see http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html for details.

[choksi81]

summary changed from SeattleOnAndroid assumes menu button to Sensibility Testbed on Android assumes menu button
What is interesting is that the Seattle on Android application actually does have a menu button, whereas Sensibility doesn't. This is most likely due to a change that was made when porting it to Sensibility.
Seattle On Android: https://seattle.poly.edu/attachment/ticket/1322/Screenshot_2014-04-07-18-24-00.png
Sensibility Testbed: https://seattle.poly.edu/attachment/ticket/1322/Screenshot_2014-04-07-18-28-29.png

[choksi81]

I was able to replicate this issue on Seattle on Android by simply changing the target API level to API level 19. This is a change introduced by Android 3.0: http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/compatibility.html
For the time being, we can re-enable this behavior by turning the API level to pre-Android 3.0 (<11). However, the way to go forward is to use an Action Bar. Google's developer pages for the Action Bar: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html

[choksi81]

It appears that increasing the target API level to 19 breaks SL4A. This causes a sleuth of NullPointerExceptions? on my Eclipse setup. In order to get around this, I've had to set the target SDK version to <=9.
This is my patch to address this issue. https://seattle.poly.edu/attachment/ticket/1322/1322_menu.patch
It uses the Appcompat library to provide backwards compatibility for API level 7. This requires some setup in Eclipse, instructions can be found here: http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/features.html#v7-appcompat

[choksi81]

[choksi81]

Attachments:
https://github.com/SeattleTestbed/attic/blob/master/TICKET_ATTACHMENTS/1322_menu.patch