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Android basics 42
AUG-2.0.0-100 Android User’s Guide
Working with menus
There are two kinds of Android menus: options menus and context menus.
Options menus
Options menus contain tools that apply to the activities of the current screen or
application, not to any specific item on the screen. You open options menus by
pressing the
MENU button. Not all screens have options menus; if you press
MENU on a screen that has no options menu, nothing happens.
Some screens have more options menu items than can fit in the main menu: you
touch
More
to open a menu of additional items.
Context menus
Context menus contain tools that apply to a specific item on the screen. You open a
context menu by touching & holding an item on the screen. Not all items have
context menus; if you touch & hold an item that has no context menu, no menu
opens. You can also open a context menu for an item by selecting it with the
trackball and then pressing the
TRACKBALL .
Options menus contain
items that apply to the
current screen or
application as a whole.
Touch to open a menu
of additional items.