AIR for Android does not include support for invoking the native operating system options menu that often appears at the bottom of the screen. However, there are ways of simulating the native behaviour, which we will explore in this section.
The normal behaviour of the back button, on Android, is to step back through the application states until we arrive back home. A further press of the back button will exit the application. By default, AIR for Android applications behave in this way as well. If we want to override this default behaviour, we must set up a mechanism to intercept this interaction and then prevent it.
We can respond to soft-key events through standard ActionScript event listeners.
1. First, import the following classes into your project:
import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.display.Stage; import flash.display.StageAlign; import flash.display.StageScaleMode; import flash.events.KeyboardEvent; import flash.text.TextField...