On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]>wrote:

> Yes the menu button is deprecated.  The menu is now part of the ActionBar
> as described at
> http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/actionbar.html
>

Thanks for the clear response Dianne. I wasn't aware of it being deprecated.

If managers of the AOSP care for feedback, let me just say *this sucks!*

Single developers have to already break their backs to handle hardware
fragmentation. On top of this, there is software fragmentation due to
manufacturer/vendor added skins (though I appreciate efforts like the Halo
theme).

And now basic paradigms are also changing between Android versions. All the
design effort in my app for previous versions of Android is wasted; there
is absolutely no space left for an on-screen menu button in my app, and
certainly not for an "action bar", so I will have to redesign everything or
walk the low path and just tuck the button in there somewhere :)

Also, from user point of view, if he/she has multiple devices with
different Android versions, they are going to see different UIs for the
same app!

Please lets channel our collective energies into something more productive.

cheers,
-- 
Harshad RJ
http://lavadip.com

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