Android onCreateOptionsMenu is not displaying

Question

In my android activity, i removed the Action Bar by using this Theme

 <style name="Theme.NoTitle" parent="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar"></style>

but my problem is “onCreateOptionsMenu” is not display, I tried this method to create that pls see

 private void getOverflowMenu()
    {

        try
            {
                ViewConfiguration config = ViewConfiguration.get(Home.this);
                Field menuKeyField = ViewConfiguration.class.getDeclaredField("sHasPermanentMenuKey");
                if (menuKeyField != null)
                    {
                        menuKeyField.setAccessible(true);
                        menuKeyField.setBoolean(config , false);
                    }
            } catch (Exception e)
            {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
    }

in this “onCreateOptionsMenu” is not displaying. please help me

but it displaying in Samsung

Because: in Samsung mobile has its own hardware menu button, but not in nexus etc

please see the image

Answer 1

finally i got the answer

in my AndroidManifest.xml i just removed this line

   android:targetSdkVersion="18" 

Answer 2

If you don't have action bar and neither a menu button (on most devices) where do you want to display your menu??

The easiest way is to use PopupMenu. Add a button somewhere in your layout and on the click even add the PopupMenu (Dropdown menu). If you want to use it for devices starting Android 2.1 use a Support Library.

You have HERE the android documentation about PopupMenu.

From SDK Manager you can download and see the support library v7 sample which includes PopupMenuHelper.

Hope it helps. Good Luck!