On Feb 3, 11:39 pm, Ecthelion <[email protected]> wrote: > From my personal experience with the Action Bar on Honeycomb and ICS I > am not really convinced that the Action Bar is a "clear win". Again > and again I wondered what an icon in an app's Action Bar meant. And > just recently I pressed the wrong icon in the email app and never > found that mail again, just because I was not sure which of the icons > was meant to mark the email as unread again. With a normal menu there > is usually (or always?) an item description that the user can read > alongside an icon for quickly recognizing the functionality. So if a > user is unsure what the icon in the menu means he can always read the > menu item text. An Action Bar does not have this possibility. If the > user does not get what the icon means then he has no means of finding > it out. For me that is a very bad user experience.
I don't have ICS on any of my devices but I understand if you press down on the icon a description is displayed. This works with ActionBarSherlock but not Honeycomb. As to how users will know this.... -- 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.
