I think you want to show the overflow menu icon on the top right always and want your menu to open from there. Try something like following to force it there:
Inside your onCreate()
do:
try {
ViewConfiguration config = ViewConfiguration.get(this);
Field menuKeyField = ViewConfiguration.class.getDeclaredField("sHasPermanentMenuKey");
if(menuKeyField != null) {
menuKeyField.setAccessible(true);
menuKeyField.setBoolean(config, false);
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
// Ignore
}