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Re:Android Design by starwed on Friday January 13, 2012 @08:14AM (#3460396)
Since no one else has mentioned it, ICS has improved how you navigate among apps.

The three omnipresent buttons are now back, home, and recent apps. Recent apps pulls up a visual stack of everything you've used recently, so the ICS expectation would be that users would hit that key if they want to navigate among apps.

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Re:Android Design by CrazedGeek on Friday January 13, 2012 @08:17AM (#3460407)
How do phones with hardware buttons access the recent apps list? Same as in 2.3 (long-press home)?
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Re:Android Design by starwed on Friday January 13, 2012 @12:00PM (#3461314)
I only have a galaxy nexus, so no idea! :) Repurposing the search key would probably make the most sense to me, but I can see that would be confusing.

Has ICS rolled out to any older phones yet?

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