All right. I brought this up a few weeks ago on this list and some of the advice on the topic was to avoid menus entirely and replace them with in-app soft-menus from now on...despite the action bar. I guess that advice was incorrect.
Thanks for the clarification. On Thursday, November 1, 2012 10:42:21 PM UTC-7, Nirav Parmar wrote: > > "My understanding is that modern Android "best practice" is to not use the > system-level menu button or system-level options menu anymore since such > buttons are frequently difficult to access or even absent on some devices." > > >> Keith , Your understanding is wrong here. Read about ActionBar. > http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/actionbar.html > you can use that..Also, if device have hardware buttons(menu buttons) > Action Overlay will not display in Action bar otherwise you will get Action > Overlay..so all your functionality can be now placed in Action bar (which > we used to put in menu previously) > > "What I'm not sure about is whether I can still rely on the standard > 'back' button or whether I need to add such functionality to my UI (add a > soft button on my screen) on the concern that some devices may not present > a usable back button to the user." > > >> Again, that's not true.Each Android device will come up with standard > back button..This is how Android OS is designed..any device doesn't have > hardware buttons..Android OS will display Back ,Recent and Home buttons on > screen at bottom. > > >>Also, According to Android's new Design & Navigation pattern, UP button > is added.You can show UP button in Action Bar(Which can be used for > Application nevigation) > > Read Here , http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/navigation.html > .This > will clear you doubts. > > Thanks & Regards, > > Nirav. > > > > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Keith Wiley <kbw...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> My understanding is that modern Android "best practice" is to not use the >> system-level menu button or system-level options menu anymore since such >> buttons are frequently difficult to access or even absent on some devices. >> I have gutted all menu access from my app as a result (I admit, it is quite >> tedious to get access to the menus on some devices since you have to tap at >> least once just to get a menu bar to appear and then again on a menu icon >> to get the menu...and I'm not sure even that approach works on all of the >> most modern devices). >> >> What I'm not sure about is whether I can still rely on the standard >> 'back' button or whether I need to add such functionality to my UI (add a >> soft button on my screen) on the concern that some devices may not present >> a usable back button to the user. >> >> Any thoughts on this subject? >> >> >> Thanks & Regards, > Nirav > > -- 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
