I would agree with this. I have a Samsung tablet from last year (yes, an entire 6 months ago) and in that time Google has introduced the hamburger menu everywhere, and the "swipe from the left" navigation item.
The physical menu button on the device DOES NOTHING in these apps. It's stupid - why not map menu to the hamburger menu? Or are they confused about whether menu should open the hamburger or the side navigation?
When I bought my TMobile G1 (yes, classic eh) it had menu, home, and back. Then, they introduced a "search" button on the HTC Desire and it lasted until the Motorola Atrix I had. Yet in that time, it stopped doing anything in certain apps.
After that, they completely binned it.
Now the buttons are being made even more redundant. I wish they would make their mind up and not rewrite the UI guidelines every Google I/O. It's STUPID.
I think this Samsung is the last Google device I will buy - now that iOS does split screen, I may jump ship (but I will miss this stylus). At least things run smoothly (Google Maps in 3D on a Samsung quad core is jerky and SLOW; it's worse on the 8 core).
Google hasn't been using the menu button for many generations.
It went away with the Galaxy Nexus, and since that you've had the Nexus 4, Nexus 5 and Nexus 6. Seeing that they release one per year, that's 4 years ago.
Blame Samsung for still keeping a button layout that doesn't apply to android since the original 4.0 came out.
Very informative, thanks! In that case I will direct my rage at Samsung for including it, but also at lazy app developers who fail to map MENU PHYSICAL BUTTON to the hamburger menu.
The physical menu button on the device DOES NOTHING in these apps. It's stupid - why not map menu to the hamburger menu? Or are they confused about whether menu should open the hamburger or the side navigation?
When I bought my TMobile G1 (yes, classic eh) it had menu, home, and back. Then, they introduced a "search" button on the HTC Desire and it lasted until the Motorola Atrix I had. Yet in that time, it stopped doing anything in certain apps.
After that, they completely binned it.
Now the buttons are being made even more redundant. I wish they would make their mind up and not rewrite the UI guidelines every Google I/O. It's STUPID.
I think this Samsung is the last Google device I will buy - now that iOS does split screen, I may jump ship (but I will miss this stylus). At least things run smoothly (Google Maps in 3D on a Samsung quad core is jerky and SLOW; it's worse on the 8 core).