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Yes but software on other phones is inconsistent about the meaning of the extra buttons. The Back button for instance can be infuriatingly unpredictable to the
by makecheck 10y ago
Yes but software on other phones is inconsistent about the meaning of the extra buttons.
The Back button for instance can be infuriatingly unpredictable to the point where you just revert to the touch screen. It just isn’t productive to have to wonder how many screens back you will go, or if you will end up in another application, or if the button will be ignored completely.
- kevincox 10y agoWhat apps do you see this with? There are arguments against the android button model but your point seems like an odd one. In all of the apps I use the back button (the only button they get control over) acts very predictably.
- yoz-y 10y agoHas the behavior changed recently? Back when I used android the back button moved to the "previous screen", but sometimes it skipped some pages (for example in a three step checkout it would go all the way to the beginning). But the worst was that it could actually go all the way back to the home screen or even switch to a different application.
- kevincox 10y agoI can't recall an app ever skipping pages on me. As for back to the home screen I think that is intended behavior, if you open and app and hit back you should end up back at the home screen. And switching apps is intended too, if you came from another app it should take you back there. It works much like the back button on your web browser, it doesn't navigate a particular site per-say, it just takes you back in the history of "activities" from which you came.