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Re:IOS vs. Android from the Trenches by enjo on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @05:10PM (#2561836)
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.
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Re:IOS vs. Android from the Trenches by sehugg on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @07:07PM (#2562213)
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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