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New button layout vs old.

timmytucker

Newbie
Sep 10, 2012
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So Gingerbread has home/menu/search/back and ICS has home/multitasking/back.

1. If you have an old phone with the four original buttons, what will the menu button do in an app designed for ICS?
2. Will the multitasking button come up onscreen for an old device, or can you program it to one of your hardware buttons? or both?
3. If using a new ISC-designed phone like the galaxy nexus.... when you run a legacy app, will software home/menu/search/back keys display?

In general, I'm just wondering how Google handled the transition from the original four keys, to three keys.
 

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