On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Brian Conrad <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/30/2013 08:16 AM, Chris wrote: >> Where does it state in developer documentation that the back button is >> supposed to end a program? I don't see what it has to do with Android >> introductory orientation, especially when that is not even the way >> Google's apps function. Try to use back in Gmail sometime - You'll get a >> headache cycling through the last twenty emails you read. > > > I have downloaded some > apps like the iHeart Radio app that had an exit button or exit in their > menu. Anything that can put up many layers of interface should probably > should have an exit. >
I agree that having an exit menu option / button is a good idea. But I also think a user is about as likely to find an exit option as they would be to find the refresh button John mentioned in his original post above. We really need an exit standard, and BACK isn't it. Let back be back, let home be home, and get a separate mechanism a user can invoke to exit any program with a SIGTERM. Whether it be through a long press or separate button; Google would at least have something consistent to document, and we could still choose how to handle the exit request. ---QUOTE from "implementing effective guidelines"---<http://developer.android.com/training/implementing-navigation/temporal.html> >> Back navigation is how users move backward through the history of >> screens they previously visited. <snip> >> For example, when a notification takes the user to an activity deep >> in your app hierarchy, you should add activities into your task's back >> stack so that pressing Back navigates up the app hierarchy instead >> of exiting the app. This pattern is described further in the Navigation >> design guide. ---END QUOTE--- Effective guidelines my @$X. I can't begin to understand this kind of backwards thinking. The whole point of adding the "up button" recommendation should have been to avoid this sort of silly. Instead, up just gives users one more way to "kinda" do the same thing as back usually does without accidentally looking at their homescreen wallpaper. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
