As you may remember, several months ago Google developers published the article "Say Goodbye to the Menu Button<http://android-developers.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/say-goodbye-to-menu-button.html?m=1>" preaching us to replace Android "Options menu" with "Action bar" always visible to the User, and to forget about hardware Menu Button. So far so good, I lived with this in my mind until recently I noticed that brand new Jelly Bean interface made move in an opposite direction: In the "Sync" screen of the "Accounts and Sync" an option to "Remove Account" was moved from visible position of a "button" (not an Action Bar though) to the invisible position in the good old Options menu (see "per account settings in Jelly Beans<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/android-developers/RfrIb5V_Bpo> "). Today I've noticed that latest version of the Chrome browser on my Android 4.0.4 device does actively use both Action Bar and Options Menu but for DIFFERENT purposes. Actually Action Bar is generally not shown (to free up screen estate) and appears only after text selection on a page, presenting to the User available "actions" with selected text. Cool but it's NOT "Good Bye to the Menu Button".
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