Re: [android-discuss] Re: Interesting email from an Android user

2013-07-30 Thread peter f miller
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Doug Gordon wrote: > I originally didn't allow an exit with the Back key, forcing users to use > the Home button, but after a couple of users took me to task about it I went > back to the standard behavior. I've noticed a few apps that pop up a "Are > you sure you

Re: [android-discuss] Re: Interesting email from an Android user

2013-03-10 Thread Pete Perry
I disagree... Most people I know don't use widgets because they have a finite level of power when on the go. Companies like HTC make this issue much worse by following the Apple design ideas of locked down batteries that are under spec for their hardware. Pete On Mar 8, 2013 1:12 PM, "Tom" wrot

Re: [android-discuss] Re: Interesting email from an Android user

2013-03-10 Thread Brian Conrad
We'd all love to know the criteria but more likely it is the lack of staff that keeps that away. But don't you just love the idea of some 20 something deciding whether you're "mature" enough to have comments? The new interface can't even keep the counts and now versions up to date. On 03/10/

Re: [android-discuss] Re: Interesting email from an Android user

2013-03-08 Thread Tom
Like John, I find that many users' don't know some of the basics, and would really benefit from some introductory material. I'm not just talking about dummies, and even if I were I think respect it due to every user regardless of their skill level (unless they are being abusive, intentionally

Re: [android-discuss] Re: Interesting email from an Android user

2013-03-03 Thread Doug Gordon
Frankly, I think that the way the Back button works to go both back to a previous state of an app and to "exit" the app gets pretty frustrating, even for me as an experienced user. One of the original concepts of apps was having mostly mini-apps that can call on each other to do specific work.

Re: [android-discuss] Re: Interesting email from an Android user

2013-03-03 Thread Brian Conrad
On 03/03/2013 09:02 AM, Michael Elsdörfer wrote: The back button is not an exit button, and developers should not be telling users that it is. If it were an exit button, it would be called exit. There is no exit functionality in Android, for better of worse that is the way Android was designed, a