Yeah, well, it's probably not by Google, or one that Google had any say in. None of the built-in apps on my devices have an exit button, not even games (that in general do include it AFAICT).
One would think users would be used to not having to exit explicitly their phone, SMS, camera apps, plus web browser, PDF reader, music player etc. etc. so they wouldn't miss an exit button in other apps. Apparently though, they consider built-in apps that enable basic functions of a device a different kind of animal - they probably don't realise everything is an app, pretty much, just some are pre-installed and others are not? On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:31 PM, bob <b...@coolfone.comze.com> wrote: > My car navigation app has an Exit button. In the upper right corner. I > think it's the built-in app too. > > > > On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 5:04:29 AM UTC-6, latimerius wrote: >> >> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:31 PM, RichardC >> <richard...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> > This sounds like an Android anti-pattern. I would suggest you design >> > your >> > app so that is does not need a "do you want to quit". >> > >> > 1) onDestroy is not guaranteed to be called. >> > 2) end-users do not expect apps to ask them I they should quit. >> >> Your point 2) is unfortunately not universally true. We got a 2-star >> rating just yesterday, with one of the points the user made being >> "There isn't any exit button, (that I can find), so everytime you want >> to quit the app, you must hit home button then task manager to close >> out app.". >> >> Now, you don't need to explain to me how exit buttons on Android make >> no sense - I understand all that and agree with you completely. My >> point is, users don't. There's probably quite a bunch of people who >> got an Android device recently after spending 15 years on Windows, I'm >> not even surprised they are confused. >> >> If we get more reviews like this we'll consider adding an exit button, >> however bogus it might be, I'm sorry. A lot of third party apps on >> Market do have those I notice... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
