On Jan 30, 12:38 pm, madcoder <[email protected]> wrote: > I think I will add a finish() button in my apps, just to make people > happy. Even if Google recommends against it. > > It's available in every other app, and end users expect it, so why not > include it?
Because it's a red herring that doesn't do anything useful, and it trains users with an inaccurate mental model of how to use their phone. Calling finish() on your Activity causes *exactly* the same thing to happen as pressing the back button (unless you've overridden the back button to do something special). I can understand more the desire for a task manager to close apps that get stuck in a state that is using CPU and battery. Useful software sometimes has bugs. But that should be a last resort along the lines of Ctrl-Alt-Delete, and not something that any user should expect to do routinely. -- Jon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
