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Re:Android Design by natrius on Thursday January 12, 2012 @05:04PM (#3458166)
Google Voice follows (or used to, at least) your advice, which led to endless frustration. You'd tap a notification to read a text, then have no way at all to get to the main screen of the Google Voice app. In Android 4.0, Google Voice has an app-specific back button that helps, but I think Google's advice on this is correct.
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Re:Android Design by kenjackson on Thursday January 12, 2012 @05:28PM (#3458255)
I'd think that the "typical" behavior would be to go back to what you were doing. I'm playing "Angry Birds", notification shows for text message. I click it, read the notification, hit back to get back to Angry Birds.

I don't see how inserting items between the text message and Angry Birds is a good idea.

What apps should have, is a way to always get to the apps main screen in the app. But changing the back button behavior seems confusing.

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Re:Android Design by nl on Thursday January 12, 2012 @07:17PM (#3458580)
What if you change to the message app via the task manager?

In the message app context "back" takes you to a list of messages, which makes a lot of sense.

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