Mark,
It would appear that ICS on Lareg has reverted to Honeycomb 3.0/3.1
behaviour regarding ActionBar Menu. On Honeycomb 3.2 Large I have a fully
functioning ActionBar with menu but on ICS 4.0.3 I get an ActionBar with no
menu and no alternate access to menu. I am assuming this is an emulator
Mark,
Generally I would agree with you and if I were starting again would
probably avoid menu/preferences. Unfortunately this would not be a good
choice at this stage in my project. The issues I have with the ActionBar
are to do with inconsistency and uncertainty. Depending on the size of the
Dianne,
Thank you for chipping in on this one. I take your point about hiding the
status bar but i was considering doing this only to maximise the
real-estate on smaller devices.
A concern I had with the ActionBar was simply that on some devices
(emulators) it does not provide a menu icon at th
Maybe you on the Android Team should make a fricking consistent API that
works across devices so we can't shoot ourselves in the FOOT everytime you
release and change behaviour or add some huge new thing out of the blue.
Working on IPHONE/iOS is a pleasure compared to this. So please don't yell
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Royston wrote:
> Depending on the size of the device I
> may or may not get a menu icon on the ActionBar.
The user will have some means of opening the options menu, either by
an indicator in the action bar itself, or by an off-screen MENU button
(e.g., Android 2
Mark,
I have a Motorola Xoom emulator with Skin, if I specify the full screen
theme on this I do not seem to get access to a menu anywhere. Appreciate
that this is only an emulator but there is some discussion on the net about
this, sufficient to sow the seed of doubt.
Again thanks for your tim
You can definitely go fullscreen and have an action bar, you just need to
make a theme for this.
That said... really, why? Please don't. It is freaking annoying when
applications hide the status bar for no good reason except they think they
are oh-so-important, and every time I want to see if I
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Royston wrote:
> A concern I had with the ActionBar was simply that on some devices
> (emulators) it does not provide a menu icon at the right side as for example
> an imaginary API 11/12 Large sized device or any Normal sized device. Are
> you able to confirm that
On Friday, December 16, 2011 at 3:51:58 PM UTC-8, Dianne Hackborn wrote:
>
> You can definitely go fullscreen and have an action bar, you just need to
> make a theme for this.
>
> That said... really, why? Please don't. It is freaking annoying when
> applications hide the status bar for no goo
You know, it's like they had some sort of executive meeting when 3.0 first
came out.
"Gentlemen, we're on the cusp of rolling out an exciting new version of
Android. This will revolutionize the product and give a magnificent new
user experience. Johnson, what new ways have you and the boys in t
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