I kind of hate to butt into this laborious thread, but I want to add my 2 cents.
@DonFrench: IMO you have confused the behavior and the appearance of radio buttons a bit. By behavior, I mean the underlying state of the control group. The behavior is clearly 1-of N (although none selected is another possible state). How that is displayed (appearance) is another matter. The default appearance on Android seems to be two concentric gray circles, with the inner one green to indicate the selected state. However, in principle, the appearance of the selected state can be of almost limitless and creative alternatives: 1) Bolded label 2) Drop shadow to indicate 3-D depressed state 3) Blinking text 4) Darker or lighter background, or different color 5) Arrow icon 6) Underlined label 7) Checkmark 8) Square box with checkmark 9) Open vs closed door icon 10) How about a detent dial, like on classic stereo gear source selectors etc. It's debatable whether a consistent appearance (or style) accross all Android applications is better than the latitude of creative design. I'm pretty sure that game developers want to have their own hallmarks. I think describing the problem in terms of the behavior instead of appearence and elaborate analogs would make the conversation about programming the darn things much easier. -- 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 To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
