Thursday, November 1, 2012

[android-developers] Is the 'back' button still kosher?

My understanding is that modern Android "best practice" is to not use the system-level menu button or system-level options menu anymore since such buttons are frequently difficult to access or even absent on some devices.  I have gutted all menu access from my app as a result (I admit, it is quite tedious to get access to the menus on some devices since you have to tap at least once just to get a menu bar to appear and then again on a menu icon to get the menu...and I'm not sure even that approach works on all of the most modern devices).

What I'm not sure about is whether I can still rely on the standard 'back' button or whether I need to add such functionality to my UI (add a soft button on my screen) on the concern that some devices may not present a usable back button to the user.

Any thoughts on this subject?

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