Long-click is a cool mechanism for exposing more options, it would be neat if there was some UI guideline that the android team could come up with to indicate to users that a row has this capability,
Thanks On Mar 23, 5:58 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > Mark Wyszomierski wrote: > > I have a ListView. I let the user perform some action on a long-click > > (pop up a picker dialog with a few choices) on row items. > > > Is there any typical UI mechanism that should be used to let the user > > know that they can long-click a row item? Right now I feel like users > > would have no idea to long-click the rows for a list of choices. > > I'm not aware of any hints for this. > > IMHO, long-click should be a "power user" thing. Make sure anything that > can be done by that mechanism can be done by some other means that is > more discoverable. > > For example, in the Contacts app, you can long-tap to delete a contact, > but you can also tap on the contact, bring up the contact details > activity, and do a delete from the option menu. The option menu is a bit > more discoverable because there's a button for it. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _Beginning Android_ from Apress Now Available! -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
