I'm working on my first (C++/IwNUI) Marmalade app, which so far works fine, but on Monday one of my devices (an HTC One Android phone, Credo Mobile) had a system update, after which my app, and only my app, now shows what seems to be a "settings" control on top of my app, which can be moved around, but does nothing but clock taps to the app where it is. It's a grey circle with three dots in it, which appears immediately when my app starts to load. Another Android test machine (Samsung Galaxy) does not show this control on my app.
Has anyone else seen this? How might I get it not to appear?
I have asked on the Marmalade forums with no response, and searched here and on the web but I haven't seen any reference to it, so I assume it may be limited to some combination of Marmalade apps, HTC One, and/or Credo Mobile Android phones.
Update: This control appears (on this phone only) on all of the Marmalade example apps I have built too, including IwUI, IwNUI, and plain demos like IwHTTPExample.
Even though this is very specific, I wonder if anyone knows a programmatic way in Marmalade C++ for me to at least get such a settings control to hide or go away?
I found a way to make it go away: "Add android:targetSdkVersion="11" (or higher) to your element." in the settings file which in my Marmalade project is called AndroidManifest.xml.
It seems like this may be a bug where it thinks there is an "overflow" of a title/menu-bar which isn't even there in these apps. By targeting a later version, it uses a newer "holo" menu, which doesn't do this.
If someone has a better explanation, I'll wait to mark that as the accepted answer.
In case it may help future people confused by all this, here's how I found this. Jared's answer led me to study my Marmalade config files, and the Android developer site where I found some general somewhat relevant info about what this is, and to search some different terms on the Marmalade forums, which got me to a relevant question I had missed on the Marmalade community answer pages, which led me to this page which had the suggestion which has the desired effect.