It is because the standard buttons (Home, Back, Search, and Menu) are on the bottom of the screen. On many phones these are soft, meaning not hardware. It is bad practice to put anything else there you have to push. You don't want your user trying to select a different tab in your app, and accidentally hitting the "menu", or Android "home" buttons and exiting your app by mistake.
In reply to: >- GUI design guidelines are missing so everyone goes overboard with >customizing standard features like the actionbar on tablets and the >tab-bar on Android 2.x. If someone can get a hold of the one >responsible for making the standard tab bar unable to dock to the >bottom of the screen, then please let me know. I really really want to >know the decision behind that choice. . -- 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.
