Odd floating menu widget thingy on screen

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Ray Gallagher

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Jul 23, 2016, 5:56:26 PM7/23/16
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Hi folks, quick one - since upgrading to Kivy 1.9.2, when installed on an HTC One, I get a wierd little floating widget which looks like it's a menu or something. It's a small grey circle with three white dots in it. It floats over the rest of the screen, and I can drag it around, but pressing it does nothing. 

So my question is, which is this thing and how might I get rid of it? 

Using buildozer on ubuntu 16, and Kivy 1.9.2-dev, screenshot attached.

Any help would be appreciated, even if someone know the thingy's name I might be able to narrow my search,

thanks.


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Alexander Taylor

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Jul 24, 2016, 4:19:43 AM7/24/16
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I don't know what this is, but one guess would be the way Android displays the builtin menu option nowadays on devices without software buttons. If this is the case, it could be because your target api is too low, this button no longer appears automatically with newer apis.

Ray Gallagher

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Dec 29, 2016, 2:15:13 PM12/29/16
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Hi Alexander, I'm only getting back to this now, but it appears you were on the money with your suggestion. I upped the android.minapi value in buildozer.spec and the menu thing disappeared.

So thanks for the advice anyways. Much appreciated.
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