Android: always show menu bar/static menu bar

Question

Hi there, I would like to use the menu bar instead of a tab bar (tabs are not made for being at the bottom of the view ...).

Is there any chance to give the menu bar a static behaviour?

Related post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2392828/android-set-the-menu-out-visible with the solution: new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() { public void run() { openOptionsMenu(); } }, 2000);

It works fine, but hides away constantly.

Many thankx!