I've been debating this myself, so have been following this discussion here with interest.
Another good read is this article http://blog.radioactiveyak.com/2010/05/when-to-include-exit-button-in-android.html I had a user contact me yesterday who said this "And I just discovered if you do not get out of the program with the exit button you can hit the back button and it takes you back the to the last copy you had open and will do so until you have gone back on all you did not exit from...hmm again...." This is more of a user issue really - she's been using the "Home" key to "quit" the app. If I include an "Exit" command that simply does what the "Back" button does and they actually use it instead of hitting "Home", then I feel like I've helped my users. Granted, a better way to help the users is to explain what the the Home and Back button are for, which I have done many times, but that's a bit out of my jurisdiction really. On Oct 24, 11:17 pm, Frank Weiss <[email protected]> wrote: > > I might add that we should contact developers who add "exit" buttons to > their apps (against Android development guidelines) that they are > contributing to the confusion of new developers. If any such developers read > this, I'd be interested to hear their defense. -- 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
