On Jan 31, 12:44 pm, Michael Pujos <[email protected]> wrote: > As much as I understand the purpose of the article, my feeling is anger > for constantly changing core UI paradigms.
I think the headline there, in an effort of eloquence, is a little misleading. I like the move away from menus, because app functionality lost in the smartphone shuffle thus far now resides front and center (top right, rather). Menu, Settings for example can be placed there, and they appear directly on-screen without any user interaction, styled like all other apps that use the action bar. It's a bit of a coding exercise if backward compatibility to 1.6 is needed, but otherwise I found it pretty straightforward to just go run with the action bar as described in the blog post and in the SDK documentation. I'd also venture to say much of the blame around the menu button would have to be placed outside of the G. There's devices out there in the tens of millions where the menu and back buttons aren't even visible (i.e. lit) unless one of the three keys (home, menu, back) are pressed. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
