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Author Topic: Gizmo and Android Ice Cream Sandwich UI menu button oddity  (Read 3792 times)

Osho

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I just recently got an Android Ice Cream Sandwich phone (AT&T HTC One X). One of the things I noticed was that Gizmo does not exactly fit the full-screen on the phone. The phone has 3 hardware buttons (back, home and app switcher). It doesn't have the menu button. So, the OS insists on putting a black strip with 3-dots at the bottom which is the menu button. This annoying 3-button strip containing one button takes about 10% of the real estate and sticks around in all cases (including full screen video playback). This is very annoying.

Many other applications also suffer from the same (Pandora, Amazon Kindle, Dolphin Browser HD). It is not a Gizmo-only problem. Some web search suggests that the Android app needs to be aware of "configurable" menu buttons and should include that as part of the app itself. I would imagine there is a way to instruct the ICS OS that this app does not need the "hardware menu" button. And then, the annoying 3-dot menu button strip should go away.

Any way this could be fixed? As more ICS devices will come to the market, more and more user will complain about the same.

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Re: Gizmo and Android Ice Cream Sandwich UI menu button oddity
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2012, 01:02:36 pm »

Here is a link with a screenshot showing what I mean about the menu button with 3-dots.

http://www.guidingtech.com/10821/disable-3-three-dot-menu-htc-one-x-map-to-task-switcher-button/

Osho

PS: Unfortunately I can't use the disable trick there because the method there only works for International HTC ONE X and not AT&T HTC ONE X.
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Osho

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Re: Gizmo and Android Ice Cream Sandwich UI menu button oddity
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2012, 02:45:21 pm »

Here's google's guideline on the ICS and menu button.

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2012/01/say-goodbye-to-menu-button.html

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Re: Gizmo and Android Ice Cream Sandwich UI menu button oddity
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2012, 02:15:44 pm »

bump...
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Osho

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Re: Gizmo and Android Ice Cream Sandwich UI menu button oddity
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2012, 10:01:24 am »

yet another bump... could this be fixed please? It is sooo annoying to look at the full-screen video which is not full-screen.

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Osho

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Re: Gizmo and Android Ice Cream Sandwich UI menu button oddity
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2012, 11:21:51 am »

Here are some screenshots showing the problem:

Main screen



Browsing Music here



Watching video in landscape mode



This is really ugly - can we get Gizmo to play nice with Android ICS menu guidelines?

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Osho
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Re: Gizmo and Android Ice Cream Sandwich UI menu button oddity
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2012, 01:35:39 pm »

Thanks for the details.

Next time we're doing Gizmo work we'll look at this.
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Re: Gizmo and Android Ice Cream Sandwich UI menu button oddity
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2012, 07:05:05 pm »

Thanks for the details.

Next time we're doing Gizmo work we'll look at this.

Thanks.

Another (minor) annoyance I have observed is that on high-resolution screen (720x1280 on HTC One X, Samsung Galaxy S3 etc.), the thumbnails are too big. Maybe we could use more rows/columns for ease of browsing.

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Osho
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Re: Gizmo and Android Ice Cream Sandwich UI menu button oddity
« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2012, 03:11:17 pm »

A new Gizmo is available.  It may fix this problem.
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Osho

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Re: Re: Gizmo and Android Ice Cream Sandwich UI menu button oddity
« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2012, 11:46:39 pm »

My play store still shows gizmo released in April.  I do see update notes but not an actual update for some reason for HTC one x.
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Osho

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Re: Gizmo and Android Ice Cream Sandwich UI menu button oddity
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2012, 05:28:52 pm »

A new Gizmo is available.  It may fix this problem.

I can confirm that this problem is fixed. Thanks much!

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