Change the look of android options menu

Question

I would like to create android options menu (left button on android device) looking like this one:

screen1

but using onPrepareOptionsMenu creates the menu which looks like this one:

screen2

Could you please point me how to change the look of the menu? Is there anything I can set in menu XML to change it's look or maybe I should use: onPrepareContextMenu?

Thanks in advance for your reply.

The top one is from Android 4+ and the bottom one is from Android 2.3 and below. They are the standard menus for those Andriod versions. — Ran, Jul 16 '12 at 06:54
Not really. I made both screenshots on ICS 4. First one is from Gmail application. So it's absolutely doable :) — Arkadiusz 'flies' Rzadkowolski, Jul 16 '12 at 06:55
this might help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10855148/how-to-create-bottom-menu-like-gmail-android — ariefbayu, Jul 16 '12 at 07:01
@ariefbayu thanks, but your link is about the "action bar menu" and not "options button menu". — Arkadiusz 'flies' Rzadkowolski, Jul 16 '12 at 07:04
@Ran: I don't set targetSdk version in my manifest yet. Only minimum as 8. — Arkadiusz 'flies' Rzadkowolski, Jul 16 '12 at 09:21
I think that's the problem. When the targetSdk is 14 and above than Android will automatically show the new menu layout. — Ran, Jul 16 '12 at 09:25
@Ran: But I want menu from top picture for all versions ( I don't want new menus). — Arkadiusz 'flies' Rzadkowolski, Jul 16 '12 at 09:48

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 21 '18 at 06:35

1

Add

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen"

attribute to the <activity> tag in project's AndroidManifest.xml

<activity android:name="YourActivity"
          android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen"
          >

edited Nov 21 '18 at 06:35

Pang

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