No menu button in Chrome on some android devices about add-to-homescreen HOT 10 CLOSED

I noticed this... and I don't really know how to fix it. The message should point down with HW button and up otherwise, so changing the icon to "menu" wouldn't suffice. I could try to spoof the devices with HW button from the user agent, but that would be a hell to maintain.

I'm open to other ideas.

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Yeah, I hear you. I don't think you'd want to rely on the UA .

Another idea, although not very elegant, is to show both button image types in the message (providing that the hardware button icon is always relatively similar?). For example, "...tap [three dots] or [menu page thingy] and then add to homescreen". At that point, it would probably be better to lose the arrow completely and just center the message on the display.

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Another unfortunate aspect of this is that the hardware "menu" button looks different on different Android devices.


However, according to this Smashing Magazine article, Google is removing the hardware menu button from newer devices.

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Nexus 5 has no HW button, but samsung market is pretty big. I believe the only solution is to place the message in the center of the screen and say something like "press the menu button"

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It is definitely against Android's design guidelines to use a Menu button. A couple of years ago, Google removed the menu button and replaced it with the action bar, and any devices that have a menu button are going against Android proper. It is a safe bet that any device with Android 2.3 or older will have one, and any device with 4.0 or new should not have one.

http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/actionbar.html

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@cubiq Agreed, it seems like the best option is just a generally centered modal with less specific instructions. Tap the menu button and choose "Save to homescreen"

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maybe then "press the menu button or tap the menu icon and blah blah"

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In light of this, do you plan to make the proposed change? Rather than pointing to the menu button, just have a modal.

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Yes that is the intention

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latest release tries to fix this. thoughts?

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