Edit:v2 All is well. Close this issue. The reason that the context menu(3 dots/bars) is not showing in the phones is because they have hardware menu buttons. Pressing the hardware menu button brings up the context menu as expected. I was just thinking I would see the 3 dots/bars on the right side of the action bar as I do with the tablet. The tablet does not have a hardware menu button key, so as expected, the context menu shows in the action bar of the tablet and not in the phones. The great thing is.... They all function. Woo Hoo...... Whew. Learning. Also through help of Chris1, figured out how to implement the context menu on Buzztouch. Edit:v1. Found out that on my Samsung and on the smaller t-mobile I am not seeing the context menu at all. Same app is installed to the Samsung Note, T-Mobile Prism, and an HP touchpad running Android. The phones don't show the context menu, the tablet does, but as such, noted below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is what I am finding. BTv3.0 Android 4.0 - Tablet Setup with no Tabs, standard simple menus. Json data looks good and validates. I have 3 items setup in the context menu Camera Setup Information Emergency I get the context menu for Android on the right side. I can click it and it drops down a box that has this in it. (looks nice) Refresh All Data Close Quit App They all work, as suggested(refresh,close, and quit), but that is not what I wanted. Hee hee. Wahhhhh! Huh! What? Json looks great, looks like this { "BT_appConfig":{ "BT_items":[ { "itemId":"JA712235E363F7E2DCE7328A1", "itemType":"BT_app", "buzztouchAppId":"JA712235E363F7E2DCE7328A1", "buzztouchAPIKey":"8723708536EF2327DB4E685", "dataURL":"https://www.buzztouch.com/api/app/?command=getAppData&appGuid=JA712235E363F7E2DCE7328A1&apiKey=8723708536EF2327DB4E685&apiSecret=F4298CA10BCC6EC710B9F1C", "reportToCloudURL":"https://www.buzztouch.com/api/app/?command=reportToCloud&appGuid=JA712235E363F7E2DCE7328A1&apiKey=8723708536EF2327DB4E685&apiSecret=F4298CA10BCC6EC710B9F1C&deviceId=[deviceId]&deviceLatitude=[deviceLatitude]&deviceLongitude=[deviceLongitude]&deviceModel=[deviceModel]&userId=[userId]", "registerForPushURL":"https://www.buzztouch.com/api/app/?command=registerForPush&appGuid=JA712235E363F7E2DCE7328A1&apiKey=8723708536EF2327DB4E685&apiSecret=F4298CA10BCC6EC710B9F1C&deviceId=[deviceId]&deviceLatitude=[deviceLatitude]&deviceLongitude=[deviceLongitude]&deviceModel=[deviceModel]&userId=[userId]", "lastModified":"Mon, 20 Jan 2014 01:46:01 -0800", "lastPublished":"Sat, 04 Jan 2014 20:04:37 -0800", "name":"Kid Locator 2", "version":"1.0", "currentMode":"Design", "startLocationUpdates":"0", "promptForPushNotifications":"0", "allowRotation":"largeDevicesOnly", "BT_themes":[ { "itemId":"50CEBCE1960C00F2BC16DE4", "itemType":"BT_theme", "backgroundColor":"#FFFFFF" } ], "BT_tabs":[ ], "BT_menus":[ { "itemId":"54E11868C1F758A1C71F9F1", "itemType":"BT_menu", "itemNickname":"InfoAndDisclaimer", "childItems":[ ] } ], "BT_screens":[ { "itemId":"5CEAF026F3D30721BAE063C", "itemType":"BT_screen_menuButtons", "itemNickname":"NEVER LOST", "navBarTitleText":"WELCOME TO - HERE I AM", "navBarBackgroundColor":"#FFFFFF", "navBarStyle":"solid", "contextMenuNickname":"InfoAndDisclaimer", "contextMenuItemId":"54E11868C1F758A1C71F9F1", "buttonLayoutStyle":"horizontalBottom", "buttonLabelLayoutStyle":"below", "preventAllScrolling":"1",....................... ~ ~ more screen stuff here, but not related to context menu ~ .................................................................. ~ ............................................................ { "itemId":"1C8B88CD63FAE935BC5FF57", "itemType":"BT_screen_wordDoc", "itemNickname":"information", "navBarTitleText":"information", "navBarBackgroundColor":"#FFFFFF", "navBarStyle":"solid", "backgroundColor":"#FFFFFF" }, { "itemId":"177D11E1E7898BC1439E402", "itemType":"BT_screen_menuListSimple", "itemNickname":"InfoAndDisclaimer", "navBarTitleText":"INFORMATION", "backgroundColor":"#FFFFFF", "backgroundImageNameSmallDevice":"nonblueframemusic.png", "backgroundImageNameLargeDevice":"nonblueframemusic.png", "backgroundImageScale":"fullScreen", "childItems":[ { "itemId":"21EDEA20D7B4DE47ED26732", "itemType":"BT_menuItem", "loadScreenWithItemId":"1C8B88CD63FAE935BC5FF57", "titleText":"CAMERA SETUP", "rowAccessoryType":"details" }, { "itemId":"621897199E4788AA5F1F289", "itemType":"BT_menuItem", "loadScreenWithItemId":"04CBAA7BCCAF680F0B3B0EC", "titleText":"APPLICATION USAGE" }, { "itemId":"B2EB1BF8EA01C18E28FCA49", "itemType":"BT_menuItem", "loadScreenWithItemId":"4CC4D0E3B987745BB97ABA4", "titleText":"EMERGENCY" } ] }, { "itemId":"04CBAA7BCCAF680F0B3B0EC", "itemType":"BT_screen_wordDoc", "itemNickname":"MomAndDad", "navBarTitleText":"MomAndDad" }, { "itemId":"4CC4D0E3B987745BB97ABA4", "itemType":"Email_image", "itemNickname":"emergency", "navBarTitleText":"emergency" } ] } ] } }

Not sure what's going on with the smaller devices. But for the context menu that you do see, I can see why you aren't seeing any menu items (other than the basic ones like refresh, close, quit). The JSON for your context menu has no child items: "BT_menus":[ { "itemId":"54E11868C1F758A1C71F9F1", "itemType":"BT_menu", "itemNickname":"InfoAndDisclaimer", "childItems":[ ] } ],

Yep. I have the same structure as Chris… "BT_menus": [ { "itemId": "33F1FF56C4CF54BD9C9D69B", "itemType": "BT_menu", "itemNickname": "AndroidContextMenu", "childItems": [ { "itemType": "BT_menuItem", "titleText": "Option 1", "loadScreenWithItemId": "4C9710F98C4C2A15878BE44" }, { "itemType": "BT_menuItem", "titleText": "Option 2", "loadScreenWithItemId": "6F02B4D304197A458750C4D" } ] } ], It looks like you created the menu, but didn't link any menu 'choices'. Cheers! -- Smug

Ah, but I did. And you can see. Buzztouch put those items at the end of the JSON under the bt_screens section and not under the bt_menus section. If you look at the last 6 sections above(right under the ...........), you see the menu simple and it's child items. I tried moving them to the bt_menus section and was able to get valid Jason formatting, but it never worked, and actually caused the app to stop. This was all auto generated by buzz touch. any ideas?

Those look like screens, not menu items. Make sure you go to the "Menus" section on your app (see screenshot) and add a menu there, along with menu items. https://www.dropbox.com/s/4wgpy2pru63kb4l/Screen%20Shot%202014-01-20%20at%2010.16.44%20AM.png

OK. Maybe I don't understand how this is supposed to work. I couldn't find any documentation. But I do have it now. Had to click on the context menu I created to fill in. Thanks. Doh! Now, hmm. Not showing up on the phones, but is showing on the tablet.... Ah, progress though.... Thanks again.

much better.... Thanks Chris, very helpful. "BT_themes":[{"itemId":"50CEBCE1960C00F2BC16DE4", "itemType":"BT_theme", "backgroundColor":"#FFFFFF"} ], "BT_tabs":[ ], "BT_menus":[ {"itemId":"54E11868C1F758A1C71F9F1", "itemType":"BT_menu", "itemNickname":"InfoAndDisclaimer" , "childItems":[ {"itemType":"BT_menuItem", "titleText":"CAMERA SETUP", "loadScreenWithItemId":"1C8B88CD63FAE935BC5FF57"}, {"itemType":"BT_menuItem", "titleText":"MOM & DAD", "loadScreenWithItemId":"04CBAA7BCCAF680F0B3B0EC"} ]} ], "BT_screens":[{"itemId":"5CEAF026F3D30721BAE063C",

And I found this. Menus are a common user interface component in many types of applications. To provide a familiar and consistent user experience, you should use the Menu APIs to present user actions and other options in your activities. Beginning with Android 3.0 (API level 11), Android-powered devices are no longer required to provide a dedicated Menu button. With this change, Android apps should migrate away from a dependence on the traditional 6-item menu panel and instead provide an action bar to present common user actions. Although the design and user experience for some menu items have changed, the semantics to define a set of actions and options is still based on the Menu APIs. This guide shows how to create the three fundamental types of menus or action presentations on all versions of Android: