We don't recommend using the built-in icons. This has already been discussed fairly in-depth here, but the basic answer is: unless there is a standard icon to cover every one of your menus (unlikely, unless we have a huge number of icons in the platform, which we do not want), then you end up with the worse situation of the icons in your app being inconsistent because they are a mix of your own and the built-in ones.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Max Binshtok <[email protected]>wrote: > This does not seem to make a lot of sense. My decision to go with > built in icons in the OS was to provide a unified user experience. So > if those icons are changed in some version of custom build of the > Android OS, all the apps that use those icons will have a coherent > menu icons. Makes a lot of sense in terms of usability for the users. > (it also reduces the package size somewhat, right?). > > So if the above is right, it seems completely unreasonable not to > expose the home icon to the public usage. > > Thanks, > Max. > > On Nov 19, 8:29 pm, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's intentional. > > > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Max Binshtok <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, I have been having this problem for some time now... > > > > > I am using the icons that are coming with the platform for the menus. > > > So I use: > > > android.R.drawable.ic_menu_help > > > and > > > android.R.drawable.ic_menu_info_details > > > > > but for some reason I can not use: > > > android.R.drawable.ic_menu_home > > > > > So basically I copy this to my drawable folder and then use it > > > normally: > > > R.drawable.ic_menu_home > > > > > Is it some sort of a bug, or this is intentional? > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > > -- > > Romain Guy > > Android framework engineer > > [email protected] > > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time > > to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on > > public forums, where I and others can see and answer them > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" 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-developers?hl=en
