On Sunday, December 15, 2013 6:29:11 PM UTC-8, Ken wrote: > > > > On Saturday, December 14, 2013 7:46:18 PM UTC-5, Douglas Drumond wrote: >> >> split action bar? >> https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html#SplitBar >> > > Yep, you can do it w/ that, but what Google's doing in their apps is > something else...it's actually another panel that shifts up when you scroll > around. > > They are probably trying out a new design pattern that isn't a pattern yet.
> Still, I think the split action bar isn't really recommended. > I haven't gotten much leverage out of the split action bar. I'd hoped I could put more icons there to avoid the options menu, but no, it just moves them to the bottom. I guess the advantage of multiple design standards is that you can pick the one you like. The design pattern I am hating the most at the moment is the options menu. In a way, its worse than the menu button from 2X days, because it is broken. The options menu icon won't show when the user has a menu button. Users have no idea that they have one, particularly because Samsung has made them obscure and mysterious and dark until pressed. If users couldn't find the menu button when it stuck up and said MENU, they aren't going to find it now. I may be tempted to try the hamburger menu, I mean navigation drawer. You'd have to train users to click on it, but then, you would have to do that with the options menu. Nathan -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
