I don't disagree with questioning the UI design. I think it would be a good idea to give users an indication of when a menu is available, for example, but I think that saying those buttons should be removed is taking it a little far. The only one I have had trouble with is search. And that only because I forget that it is there (this nexus one being my first android phone). I think when I get used to it I will make more use of it. I have fired up the browser a lot and started searching from within it when I could just hit that button.
I find the behaviour of the back button to be quite good and predictable. If I have been reading email and follow a link, the browser opens. I click back and I am taken back to my email. If I instead press home and open my calendar then as you say, pressing back takes me to the home screen. I think this is better than going to email because there could be hours between pressing home from the first task and beginning the second. Say the first task was in the evening and the second was in the morning after waking up. If the phone randomly took me into my email when I pressed back, I would think it had gone mad and there was some obscure bug in the back button behaviour. And for the record I don't think Apple is the king of UI design. The iPhone is probably a good example of where they got it quite right, but there are also arguments for the physical buttons. An app developer does not need to draw toolbars or button boxes and design these elements into the UI. Maybe that is a silly reason, I'm sure there are others. -- 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.
