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[Michael Spencer <spencers1993@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/24/2013 03:47 PM, Zisu Andrei wrote:
> Too many places, variations and bla. I urge the design team to find
> only ONE size fits all, as long as it adresses Android's ugliness. 
>
> That's the biggest difference between iOS and Android: consistency,
> you only have one "paradigm" that you use to get back in the app, and
> one home button you use to get back to the screen.

I quite agree that ideally there should only be one way to go back.
However, having the back button in the toolbar is my opinion is really
cumbersome. I've been tinkering around with ideas for the email app, and
already I'm tired of having to swipe up the toolbar, click the back
button, swipe up the toolbar, and then click the back button just to get
to the top level.

I would definitely recommend having a back method that requires only one
click/tap/swipe to operate. Concidering how the title of the page is
displayed in the header, I think that would be a good place to put it.
However, that would require a different place for the back button in
fullscreen mode.

In my opinion, I'd rather have the back button in the header for regular
mode, and placing it somewhere else for fullscreen mode, even though
this would result in two methods, because they would be two standardized
methods that always work in their corresponding modes, and would be a
lot easier to use and more obvious than putting the back button in the
toolbar and requiring to open that just to go back.

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