Missing menu on Samsung Galaxy S7 et al

[cbarreholm]

The Samsung Galaxy S7, among many other, lack a virtual context menu button. This phone only have the "Back" and "App switch" buttons.

On older phones you could hold the "App switch" button to bring up the "menu":
http://www.phonearena.com/news/How-to-call-the-hidden-context-menu-button-on-the-Galaxy-S5_id55124
This doesn't work on the S7:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-note-5/587616-miss-menu-button.html#post4715333
I guess that this explains some of the issue people have reported, e.g. not being able to configure the gallery details. Holding the "back" button will eventually bring up the gallery configuration.

The application need to provide an accessible menu for these phones.

[Eothred]

Can confirm same issue on my Oneplus 3. I had hardware buttons at first and could not for the life of me understand where I could get to settings.

[anthonydahanne]

hello @cbarreholm @Eothred
Can you suggest to me a replacement for context menu button ?
thanks

[Eothred]

Sorry I am not an app developer so I do not know at all the API.

[gammy]

Just add an Action Bar?
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/index.html

I suggest you consider this issue as critical, especially considering the amount of downvotes on the app store.