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enjo on May 18, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: IOS vs. Android from the Trenches

On quibble: In Android the back button really seems to serve the purpose of "take me anywhere BUT here". I have no real cognitive sense (generally) of where I am in the stack. I simply hit the back button until I get back to something that looks familiar.

sehugg on May 18, 2011 [–]

It's not you :) The design for Activity and "task stacks" is very complicated: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/a...

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