Re: [android-developers] Best practice? New Activity for UI screens or change layouts and capture back button?

(By the way, there are flags you can pass to startActivity that will
change the behavior of the activity stack. In the cases where you
might otherwise wrongly override the back button.)

Kris

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Kristopher Micinski
<krismicinski@gmail.com> wrote:
> Don't override the back button.
>
> There are times when overriding the back button really has some other
> semantic meaning (ending GPS fixes, etc...), but most of the time it's
> as annoying as overriding back on a webpage.
>
> kris
>
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 9:45 AM, bsd_mike <bsd_mike@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Just wondering what the consensus is doing a UI.
>> Should you kick off a new activity each time you put up a new screen?
>> Or should you do what some call a Frankenstein-Activity which handles
>> lots of screens and the back-button
>> itself.
>>
>> When should you do either?
>>
>> Are there best practice guidelines for this?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Mike
>>
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