I had no idea I would spark such a discussion. Only reason I was considering adding 'are you sure you want to exit' button was
Some of my screens have 5-8 items that users enter stuff like name, address, some other data. I just don't want users to enter say 80% of data and loose that data just because they hit back button one two many times.. Is there another UI pattern one should follow in that case? [ Something like what gmail does regarding auto-saving your draft messages, but do that in android app.. ] -Subodh On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Kristopher Micinski < krismicin...@gmail.com> wrote: > To add, the "exit" button also has the effect of turning off GPS updates, > so "exiting" also has a feature that implies something else: that you quit > draining the user's battery. > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Latimerius <l4t1m3r...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:24 PM, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:18 AM, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Latimerius <l4t1m3r...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> 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). >> >> >> >> >> >> Google Maps Navigation has "Exit Navigation" as an option in the menu >> (at >> >> least on my device running 2.3.4). >> > >> > >> > Oh, and in reference to the original point of this thread, if you press >> > back, it asks you "Exit Navigation? This will end all route guidance". >> If >> > this check wasn't there, and you exited the app accidentally, you would >> have >> > to re-enter the app and re-input your route guidance parameters and >> restart >> > the process, which would be a pain in the ass if you're in the middle of >> > driving. So seems like there are some valid use cases for such >> validation. >> >> Interesting, thanks for pointing this out. I'm guessing something >> about Navigation must be somehow expensive or slow so they had to put >> that check in. Or otherwise, was the crusade against exit buttons I >> remember seeing all over the net back in 2009/2010 misguided? >> >> -- >> 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 > -- 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
