Bad move. The hardware home button should always take the user to the system home screen, it's like their safety blanket (or an "in case of total confusion press here" button). Doing anything other than that will most likely confuse users and get you some very low scores.
Al. -- T: @alsutton W: www.funkyandroid.com The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. On 16 Jun 2011, at 16:28, Felix wrote: > Many applications out there today (I've written three myself) make use of the > home activity pattern. What I mean by that is that the application has a main > or home activity (that is launched from the home screen) and then a series of > activities that can be chained after. Most of the time, in the other > activities there is either a button to the left of the title bar or an item > in the options menu that will take the user straight back to the home > activity, finishing all/any other activities. This is a great pattern: it's > intuitive and easy to use. > > What I was thinking about doing is, besides having the home button in the > title bar and/or the option menu item, overriding the "hard" home key to have > the same behavior (take the user back to the main activity). > > What do you think about this? How would you feel if an app did this? Sure, it > would be surprising and maybe unpleasant at first, but wouldn't it be useful > after you get the hang of it? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-discuss/-/nXP2MuNXxJAJ. > 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. -- 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.
