On 02/01/2012 12:23 AM, Peter Sinnott wrote:
On Jan 31, 8:44 pm, Michael Pujos<[email protected]> wrote:
On 31/01/2012 21:28, Brian Conrad wrote:
From my experience I wish I had just used valuable screen real estate
to begin with and put Menu, Settings, Help on the screen. Almost the
number one support question I get is about settings because users
don't know that the Menu button can also be used for apps not just
phone settings. So what do you think of this blog article about the
Menu button going away?
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2012/01/say-goodbye-to-menu-bu...
As much as I understand the purpose of the article, my feeling is anger
for constantly changing core UI paradigms.
What is cool today will suck and will be deprecated tomorrow. Some day,
overflown menu will suck too.
My thoughts reading the article were a mishmash of
- Why is this article happening now? Couldn't/shouldn't it have
happened a year ago
- What is wrong with calling it a menu. Sure there is overflow but
that happened with the old menu system too
- Why do I feel so confused by the article? Shouldn't this be easy
peasy.
- I should really get around to removing long click from my app.
However many people have trouble with the concept of the menu button
I'm sure more do with long click.
- Do Honeycomb/ICS apps like Gmail and Maps update via the Market now
or only via OS updates?
I get confused trying to figure out the new screen resolution
identifiers and worrying about them even working as filters on the
Market. Apparently the Market is the only place they work because they
don't with the emulators. Other than using it as a marketing gimmick
I'm not sure what a 1280x720p buys on a 7" display. It's a little like
putting 1080p on a 32" LCD.
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