Chapter 16. Applying Menus
Like applications for the desktop and some mobile operating systems, Android supports activities with application menus. Most Android phones have a dedicated menu key for popping up the menu; other devices offer alternate means for triggering the menu to appear, such as the onscreen button used by the Archos 5 Android tablet.
Also, as with many GUI toolkits, you can create context menus for your Android applications. On a traditional GUI, a context menu might be triggered by the user clicking with the right-mouse button. On mobile devices, context menus typically appear when the user taps and holds over a particular widget. For example, if a TextView had a context menu, and the device was designed for finger-based touch ...
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