This was a deliberate decision in ICS, because we found a lot of
applications that set their targetApiVersion to 11 so they wouldn't have
the menu button on tablets, but assumed they would still have a menu button
when running on a phone.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.VERSION_CODES.html#ICE_CREAM_SANDWICH


On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Nathan <nathan.d.mel...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Monday, June 11, 2012 4:51:37 PM UTC-7, Kostya Vasilyev wrote:
>>
>> Watch out for new widget padding rules, as well (if you've got them
>> widgets in your app, that is).
>>
> I'd love to know more. What widgets? Do you mean home screen widgets?
>
> Still, seems to me like an HTC screwup (or a perceived "feature"...)
>>
> There I agree.
>
> I agree with Mark's statement:
>
> "You would expect that a target of 11 would suffice to remove the
> on-screen overflow menu affordance… and you would be mistaken."
>
> This isn't as bad as their 2 megabyte default buffer thing, but it isn't
> terribly elegant.
>
> Nathan
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