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The hardware menu button is dead starting with Android 3.0 released 1.5 years ago.
by veeti 14y ago
The hardware menu button is dead starting with Android 3.0 released 1.5 years ago.
- Phlarp 14y agoWhat about all the phones that have launched with 4.0 and hardware menu buttons?
- veeti 14y agoWhat about them? Relying on the menu button is a very, very, very bad idea because there are devices that it doesn't exist on.
- bsphil 14y agoExcept my GS3 has one, and released on 4.0 with 4.1 due out very soon. The only phone I can think of that doesn't have that is the Nexus.
- veeti 14y agoHTC's new phones, every single tablet released after Honeycomb.
- calciphus 14y agoGoogle said it was no longer "required" but even through 4.1 SDK it is still supported. Interestingly, the button that HAS died is the search button. Any device I've seen with a physical home button has opted for a long press to be the app switch, and then to leave the menu button in. Personally, I like the menu button. It feels very natural on my SGSIII (and also did on my SGSI and Galaxy Tab). It feels weird to hunt for the soft menu button (either top or bottom) on my Nexus 7.