作者彙整: Philip Berne
With Android 10, Google finally says goodbye to the Menu button
There’s one more button in heaven, one more star in the sky.
What you need to know
Readers on the XDA forums spotted a bug report complaining that menu button support had ceased.
Google responded, saying that the feature had been phased out.
Menu button support has been waning since Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
The original Android device, the T-Mobile G1 in the U.S., shipped with a number of hardware buttons adorning its chin, including Home and Back buttons and a centered Menu button. The Menu button made Android stand out against iOS at the time, as developers could offer access to eclectic features when the user pressed the button.
With Android 3.0 Honeycomb, Google offered a software version of the Menu button onscreen. By the time Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich rolled around, Google was telling developers to rethink the Menu button organization scheme.
Phones haven’t shipped with Menu buttons in some time, and app developers have found more intuitive ways to offer fe… 閱讀全文

