I would go with a overflow menu icon, or the spinner icon (without any text). So the single-click is on a LinearLayout, the fake spinner icon is an ImageButton, and there are checkboxes which activate the contextual action mode. There would be no long-click.
On Monday, October 1, 2012 4:47:07 PM UTC+8, Benoît Bouré wrote: > > Hi, > > According to this page: > http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/menus.html#context-menu, > Contextual Action Mode is preferred when working on Honeycomb or higher. > This is actually very useful when you can apply the same kind of action to > several items at a time (eg: delete). > But some actions actually only make sense on one item at a time (eg: Edit). > If you have only one of these actions, well, you can simply use the single > click for it. So: > One click = edit > Select multiple items = action mode with actions that apply to many items > > An example of that is the Gmail app: one click = read the email and > selecting many items, you can mark them as read, delete them, etc. > > OK, but what if you have multiple actions that can only a apply to one > item at a time? Imagine the following situation. > > You have a list of profiles.You can do the following actions on the > profiles: > > - delete > - export (save in a file) > - share > > These actions could be applied to many items at a time, so you place them > in the action mode. But other actions could be: > > - edit > - apply > > You can only edit or apply one profile at a time. > > So, in that case, is it OK to continue using floating menus like this: > > One single click or long-click opens a floating menu with available > options on that particular item alone (edit, apply, delete, export, share). > Selecting multiple items activates the action mode with actions that apply > to all the selected items (delete, export, share) > > Or maybe is it better to keep using action mode only? > > When one item is selected, all actions are available (edit, apply, delete, > export, share) > When more than one item are selected, the actions edit and apply are > disabled/removed from the action bar. > > Both methods can work of course and it could be up to the developer to > choose but what would be best practice? > > Thanks!! > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
