How to open the options menu programmatically?

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BlaBRA picture BlaBRA · Jun 28, 2010 · Viewed 53.5k times · Source

I would like to open the optionsMenu programmatically without a click on the menu key from the user. How would I do that?

Answer

Robby Pond picture Robby Pond · Jun 28, 2010

Or just call Activity.openOptionsMenu()?

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