On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 9:54 PM, stefoid <[email protected]> wrote:
> example use case: youre browsing and a video call comes in. browser > takes up one screen, video call the other. The person making the call > asks a question that neccesitates you using the browser (or maps, or > other application/whatever) whilst talking to them. I could certainly think of cases where having multiple applications shown at the same time would be useful, but I can't say this is one of them. :} - When receiving a video call, how useful is it to show it and the browser at the same time? Wouldn't I want to switch to the video call and see that fullscreen until I do something else? - It is already trivial in android to switch to something else while a call is going on, so not showing the video call while you go to the browser to look something up doesn't seem too big of a deal to me, especially since on relatively small screens trying to share it with a video call isn't going to leave much space for the browser and your interaction there. - The in-call experience in Android is fairly specialized (this is why there currently isn't a way to replace it in the SDK), so it would actually be relatively straight-forward to turn it into something fancy like this that always shows its UI somewhere, possibly reduced in size, or whatever you want to do. The main thing you'd need to do is turn the in-call screen into something lower-level like the status bar plus implementing policies for managing it, but I already think an argument can be made that implementing it as an activity is of questionable value. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "android-framework" 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-framework?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
