Google I/O 2012 - Navigation in Android

Adam Powell, Richard Fulcher

An app is useless if people can't find their way around it. Android introduced big navigation-support changes in 3.0 and 4.0. The Action Bar offers a convenient control for Up navigation, the Back key's behavior became more consistent within tasks, and the Recent Tasks UI got an overhaul. In this talk, we discuss how and why we got where we are today, how to think about navigation when designing your app's user experience, and how to write apps that offer effortless navigation in multiple Android versions.

For all I/O 2012 sessions, go to https://developers.google.com/io/

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  Science & Technology

[Thomas Darvik]

Erm.. what you just said makes so little sense... what are you talking about?

[Grauwsaur]

I also often use Recents to peek at some value in another app, e.g. a phone number shown in the dialer, or a number in the calculator.

[PGouv]

Most android users i asked nobody knew that this was up/down... That sucks dudes. Apple is better there. Also it is so slim and strange

[Prateek Kumar]

Good ,more semantic then knowledge to developers.

Well the ones who really want to understand how navigation works actually , should learn ActivityManager at android developer documentation and learn which flag does what.

[Adam Yakes]

It's not an hour on how navigation should work. It's an hour on how to _create_ apps with good navigation. Especially since they just changed how navigation works, it's a pretty worth-while video.

[wavyrooker]

Could have been more intuitive and shorter

[T0pace]

When you need one hour to explain how navigation should work, something is wrong with Android navigation.

[BiggestUploader123]

I hate IOS and wp7 but android is so nice to use thank you google for your work