My app supports android phones back to gingerbread (2.3). It is written to that spec and it uses the system supplied settings button. Some users are getting confused about how to make the settings on certain new phones such as S5. I would like to place a settings command right on the top line of the app as is common nowadays. But I don't want it to break the app on older phones. Is there a way to do this and still be back compatible to 2.3. thanks
OK I tried and tried to use the appcompat library. One problem after another, so I regrouped and read up in the developers blog. Then, I simply added "android:targetSdkVersion="14"" to my uses-sdk statement in the manifest. Now the ... is there on current devices like I wanted, but the old way still works on gingerbread level devices. Much better... – user1644002 3 mins ago edit