I saw in an interview with Matias Duarte that long press menus are no longer considered good practice since they make the user stop and wait. However he stopped short of saying what the replacement in the interview was. It can't be an option menu because they don't get invalidated anymore since they're always visible on large screens.
I believe the proper replacement are these new "on demand context menus" that show up when you press that little "triangle" menu on a UI element. We can see them everywhere in Android 4 and they're used in Google Music even on Android 2.x. My questions are: What are these called? I'm tired of calling them "triangle" thing menu. What is the widget backing this? I've looked and looked and I can't find anything about this, I even tried going over all the drawables shipped in android 4 and I still haven't seen this little triangle. To make it clearer what I'm talking about, I've attached the image of the triangle I'm talking about. This image is also used from the web version of Google Music and this is where I got it from. Link to my original question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8767344/android-ics-context-menu-replacement <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-tyRSTyDqnVY/Twi_w-YF7uI/AAAAAAAADaY/TurpgBpmWM4/s1600/sprites_extended_f689c78c0405a92c82537043b91d618e.png> -- 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
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