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The back button is chaotic. Handy in many situations, but not in others. If you go into an app already running, there may not be a way to go back to the start s
by megablast 15y ago
The back button is chaotic. Handy in many situations, but not in others. If you go into an app already running, there may not be a way to go back to the start screen of that app.
- drivebyacct2 15y agoI so tire of this complaint. It's very consistent if you understand what it does. Think of Android Activitys in a stack. The back button pops off the stack. There, you're done. Unless an app overrides it in a broken way, that will explain all cases. If you launch an app via the Launcher, it will try to restore state, and then the back button pops back through Activities to the "start screen". Likewise, if you're in an app and you go to a notification, the back button pops that notification's loaded Activity and you're returned to the app you were in when you clicked on the notification.
- megablast 15y agoWe all understand how it works, it is not complicated. Why you feel the need to explain this is amazing to me. There are problems with how it works, something you ignore in your "reply". Like getting to the start screen of an app, where an app always assumes it comes from the start screen, rather than in the middle of the app.