Posts tagged menu-button

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One of the new features HTC introduced to the HTC One with its latest Android 4.2.2 update is the ability to press and hold the home button to access menus, which hides the virtual menu button that sometimes appears at the bottom of the display.

However, the option is somewhat hidden within the Settings app, and you may be wondering where to find it. So here’s how.


A post by Scott Main, lead tech writer for developer.android.com, went up yesterday to remind developers that in Google’s eyes, the Menu button is dead. When Google introduced Android 3.0, developers got their first taste of what Google was planning for the future of its UI. Gone was the Menu button, along with the constraints of hardware buttons period. Introduced was the future of Android: software based action buttons. The ActionBar class is now the new standard and Google wants to remind those moving forward to forget about the menu button and focus on the action bar. This is another step towards an overall unified experience on Android, and one that Google hopes developers will adopt, in order to create a consistent experience from here on out.