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

All right.  I brought this up a few weeks ago on this list and some of the advice on the topic was to avoid menus entirely and replace them with in-app soft-menus from now on...despite the action bar.  I guess that advice was incorrect.

Thanks for the clarification.

On Thursday, November 1, 2012 10:42:21 PM UTC-7, Nirav Parmar wrote:

"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." 

>> Keith , Your understanding is wrong here. Read about ActionBar. http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/actionbar.html

you can use that..Also, if device have hardware buttons(menu buttons) Action Overlay will not display in Action bar otherwise you will get Action Overlay..so all your functionality can be now placed in Action bar (which we used to put in menu previously)

"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."

>> Again, that's not true.Each Android device will come up with standard back button..This is how Android OS is designed..any device doesn't have hardware buttons..Android OS will display Back ,Recent and Home buttons on screen at bottom.

>>Also, According to Android's new Design & Navigation pattern, UP button is added.You can show UP button in Action Bar(Which can be used for Application nevigation)

Read Here , http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/navigation.html .This will clear you doubts.

Thanks & Regards,

Nirav.

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Keith Wiley <kbw...@gmail.com> wrote:

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?

Thanks & Regards,

Nirav

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