On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Mounir Lamouri <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 04/20/2012 10:58 AM, Adrienne Porter Felt wrote: > > You can theoretically use Intents to send something silently in the > > background, or you can use Intents to open a full-screen SMS dialog that > is > > pre-populated where the user just hits "Send". Which do you mean? I > think > > the former is a bad idea, and the latter does not satisfy many apps that > > send text messages. (Handcent SMS, for example.) > > I meant using Intents to open a real SMS app that will handle the > sending. So, indeed, Handcent SMS will not do that because it is an SMS > app and such an app will want to be able to style something like a 'send > sms' button which would make such a magic button useless IMO. > Right -- the apps would just use the magic button in place of their own custom button. Is the way the button looks really an integral part of the app? Having a standard button might even improve the overall look of applications; for example, iOS apps share many common UI elements, which gives them a clean, concise feel. The standard button could have a neutral design, or perhaps the system could provide a few buttons that have the same icon and layout but with different colors. (See the wireframe attachment to see how minor a change it would be for Handcent SMS -- just a different button.)
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