On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Latimerius <l4t1m3r...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> Giving the user a good feeling about using a device/app is a very > tricky area. I worked for the official games industry for 7 years and > I saw the attention these guys tend to give controls. While not every > little Android app has to be as fine tuned as a twitch shooter, every > app should feel good - something Apple is famous for understanding. > You can't say that a painting app is good enough just because there > are still a bunch of pixels left for the actual painting after we've > rendered our UIs. > Okay: Apple is famous for having great UIs. iOS does not have a hard menu button. I believe there is an implication that you can do a great UI here without relying on a hard menu button. You might well be right on this, however the decision to leave out the > Menu button is of a much much broader consequence than just finger > paint apps for children. There are apps for which an off-screen > button is just *the* simple and natural solution, everything else is > kludgy work-around. If there were no such apps at the moment, they > would appear in the future. > Except in the world on iOS where they manage to have great UIs, in-spite of the heavy burden of not having a menu button? Must be that Apple magic. Wish we had some of that. > Saying "no Menu button should be enough for everyone" reminds a > similar well-known statement that concerned 640kB of memory - > supporting such claims you run an acute risk of getting on the wrong > side of history. :-) > But this is what I was really here to reply to. Seriously? You are comparing whether there is a physical button for invoking a menu vs. an affordance within the application to a statement that one will never need more than the *amount* of a certain resource? Well okay then. Oh btw, if you want to know whether the device has a physical menu button, you can use this: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/ViewConfiguration.html#hasPermanentMenuKey() So if it has a menu key, you can leave your old UI, and if it doesn't I guess you'll need to accept a UI this crappy like iOS. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
