The home button is not something applications ever see.

The back button is always required to be available on the device (even if
that is done through an on-screen affordance).

The search button has always been and is still one of many optional extra
keys.

The menu key until 3.0 was a required key.  Starting with 3.0 the platform
has been moving to make this an optional key, hence the need for the API to
find out about it.

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:09 PM, albnok <alb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Interestingly, Android SDK 14/version 4.0 introduced:
>
>
> http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/ViewConfiguration.html#hasPermanentMenuKey%28%29
>
> I discovered this with a leaked Google+ 2.0 app that would crash on
> loading Chord with a Class. However, the Home, Back and Search buttons
> don't get such APIs.
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