I don't think you can. Pressing and holding the menu button to show the soft keyboard exists for compatibility reasons - I'm not sure it would be wise to allow developers to disable it.
On Jul 27, 12:18 pm, Mathias Lin <m...@mathiaslin.com> wrote: > How can I capture a long press of the device menu button in my application? > I thought of an intent filter, but there's only an action called > android.intent.action.SEARCH_LONG_PRESS, but nothing for the MENU button. > > I found that long press of the menu button actually does different > things on different devices, i.e. on Nexus One it will show the soft > keyboard, while on Samsung Galaxy S it will pop up the search widget. > Generally, I want to suppress this behaviour in my app. > > (I already looked on StackOverflow.com for some hints but only found > unanswered posts.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en