Google trying to eliminate Menu button, replace with Action Bar
Android has historically required three buttons on a device: Home, Back, and Menu. Starting with Honeycomb, Google started to eliminate that menu button with its new Action Bar. It appears that they really like that idea, as it has just been announced on the developers blog that they would like to remove the menu key from Android. Instead they would like the Action Bar to become a more integrated solution among all apps, in the idea to make a better Android
To clarify, Android is not removing the menu button features. The Action Bar acts as a onscreen menu button, and are the three dots you sometimes see in Ice Cream Sandwich. Google would just like to move towards the use of that, just as they have with the use of onscreen buttons versus the traditional hardware ones. It’s good to see that Google is trying to get all developers on board. Sad that the Menu button is leaving? Is the Action Bar better? Let us know in the comments!
Nothing beats a quality button just below the screen. I'm not in favor of funky mechanical buttons, but my primary reason for discarding my iPhone, was that even though the Apple was of better physical design, and mor reliable software, it did not have user friendly offscreen buttons like Android. When depending on individual developers for your on-screen buttons, 80 % of the time they are at the most inaccessible corner of the screen for the human thumb. (Especially the back button). There is nothing more frustrating to users than the wasted screen space taken by tool bars that can't be removed. It makes me mad to think of getting rid of that button because its jus one step in the process of getting rid of them all. It's like throwing away the mouse for your computer and pasting sticky note along the top of the screen. If you're going to get rid of the only advantages you had over Apple, then I guess I'll just go get an Apple.
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