Alternative of “Menu” button in Android

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I am working in Phonegap/Cordova and I need to use menu to go for app settings. But I have came to know that according to [Google/Android docs][1][^], developer shouldn't use that menu button anymore. Instead, developer should use action bar for this purpose.

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.

But according to [cordova menu docs][2][^], you can always call native menu. I am trying this, but it is not working at all. This is what I have tried:

function onDeviceReady() {
            document.addEventListener("menubutton", onMenuKeyDown, false);
    }

    function onMenuKeyDown() {
            alert("Menu button pressed");
    }

First of all, there is no Menu button in upcoming android devices, second, this code is not working at all. I haven't tested it on old devices, OS < 4.0.

Whats the possible alternate of menu button in phonegap? Should I use ActionBar for this purpose? And if it is so, should I have to write it for every platform?


There is a plugin for [android ActionBar for cordova][4][^], but question remains same, what I have to do with other platforms?

Thanks in advance.