A facility to go back to the Home screen has to be provided by the hardware or the system (for instance with a soft button.) It is definitely NOT the job of the applications to provide a way to go back to the Home screen. As such, these ports would have to find a way to let the user to back to the Home screen without requiring the applications to implement this feature.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Someone's just made a point to me that I'd like to throw out to everyone > for their opinion; > > Some of the devices that Android has been ported to don't have an > explicit "home" button, and on some of these returning to the home > screen requires multiple taps. Because of this should applications offer > the ability to return to the home screen from their menus to give them > wider appeal? > > Al. > > -- > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > subsidiaries. > > > > > -- 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
