Well, FWIW, looks like an SDK Level 15 is in works. If you now look at your published apps' APK, it says something like "API level: 4-15+", where it, a few days ago, used to say "API level: 4-13+"
So hopefully, some of these issues will quickly be resolved in a new SDK Level, just like how 3.0 and Level 11 was very quickly made obsolete by 3.1. On Nov 23, 6:27 am, String <[email protected]> wrote: > Being fortunate enough to live in the land of the Galaxy Nexus Launch, I > can speak to some of this. The GN has three places it will put a soft menu > button, none of which are represented in the 4.0 emulator, > unfortunately. Presumably, because it doesn't have some build flag set to > say "there's no hardware Menu button". > > If your app has targetSdkVersion of 10 or lower, it will have no native > ActionBar, and the menu overflow button will appear alongside the other > "device buttons" at the bottom of the screen (or the left edge, in > landscape). The emulator doesn't show this "device button" area at all, but > you've probably seen it in GN screenshots. > > If your app has targetSdkVersion of 11 or higher, it probably has an > ActionBar, and the GN will put any overflow menu button at the right edge > of the ActionBar, same as in Honeycomb. It's a different icon, but the same > behavior. This doesn't happen in the ICS emulator, at least not at handset > sizes. > > If your app has targetSdkVersion of 11 or higher, and you use the new split > ActionBar > (http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html#SplitBar), the > GN will put your overflow menu in the lower ActionBar. Again, just be aware > that the emulator does not show this. I've also had some trouble with the > formatting of this lower ActionBar on the GN, but I can't seem to repro it > at the moment. > > A consequence of these formatting differences is that you can't tell from > the emulator exactly how the ActionBar will handle MenuItems that include > showAsAction="ifRoom". Because the emulator's ActionBar doesn't show the > soft menu button, it naturally has more room for one more ActionItem than > the GN does. Take this into account when trying to plan how many > ActionItems your user will be able to see. > > You may have also noticed on the emulator that ICS doesn't do a very good > job of deciding "ifRoom" on the ActionBar. In particular, it'll happily > ellipsize the activity's title in order to show one more ActionItem. This > behavior also occurs on the GN; it's annoying, and IMHO makes a mockery of > "ifRoom". > > Finally, one problematic edge case occurred for me in an app I had where I > hid the title bar in devices smaller than size Large. In this situation, > the GN gave no way to access the functionality I had under the Menu key on > other handsets: no action bar, but no soft menu button in the device area > either. Not nice. But probably not a case which affects many apps. > > Hope this helps some folks, > String -- 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
