My car navigation app has an Exit button. In the upper right corner. I think it's the built-in app too.
On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 5:04:29 AM UTC-6, latimerius wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:31 PM, RichardC > <richard...@googlemail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > This sounds like an Android anti-pattern. I would suggest you design > your > > app so that is does not need a "do you want to quit". > > > > 1) onDestroy is not guaranteed to be called. > > 2) end-users do not expect apps to ask them I they should quit. > > Your point 2) is unfortunately not universally true. We got a 2-star > rating just yesterday, with one of the points the user made being > "There isn't any exit button, (that I can find), so everytime you want > to quit the app, you must hit home button then task manager to close > out app.". > > Now, you don't need to explain to me how exit buttons on Android make > no sense - I understand all that and agree with you completely. My > point is, users don't. There's probably quite a bunch of people who > got an Android device recently after spending 15 years on Windows, I'm > not even surprised they are confused. > > If we get more reviews like this we'll consider adding an exit button, > however bogus it might be, I'm sorry. A lot of third party apps on > Market do have those I notice... > -- 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
