On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Royston <[email protected]> wrote: > Bearing in mind ICS upcoming devices, do you > consider it safe to assume that if a particular device does not show a > menu icon in the ActionBar then it will definitely put a menu icon > somewhere else?
I guarantee you that every device has a standard way of getting at options menus. I do not guarantee you that any given app will necessarily work, at least until I see a Galaxy Nexus (and, ideally, see ICS on a phone with a dedicated MENU button as well). It *should* work without modifications, or else Google would be jumping up and down, waving its hands, telling us changes that we would need to make to our apps. However, I can't tell you precisely what the behavior is on hardware until I see hardware. It's soon getting to the point where I need to hop a flight to London just to pick up one of the damn things... > I do not see this in the emulators I have tested but > then again the emulators do not show what hardware buttons may be > available. I am wary of delivering an App and finding that some users > are locked out of the Apps options (also worth noting that on these > devices there is no "back" icon either). I could always put up a menu > button of my own but I would like to follow the flow of the platform > if possible. If you need to release within the next few weeks, consider temporarily adding maxSdkVersion="13" to your manifest, so you do not show up on the Market for ICS devices. Then, once the dust has settled from all of this, you can remove that restriction. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to *Advanced* Android Development_ Version 2.1 Available! -- 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
