tagno25 wrote:Posting just to say that I like most of the new layout. But I prefer the way the back button was used before (go up a level and exit on top level)
There are multiple issues with this:
1. I couldn't figure out how to fit this in the drawer and make the navigation not look dumb/bad. Enabling back button to revert the nested category/feed backstack leads to unintuitive crap where you press on it and nothing happens because the backstack got popped but the drawer was invisible behind the screen, then you press it one more time and the app suddenly quits. It's all really platonic in a way that the abstraction does technically function correctly but it's really confusing.
2. The seemingly obvious thing is do what I did in the first place and pop the drawer on back press. It kinda works but no other android apps really work like this and there are multiple technical problems with using the drawer in this way, i.e. in some situations the drawer can get stuck opening and closing when you press back, which is also kinda dumb (@pherret, thanks your whining caused me to effortpost like never before).
3. So, as you see, the current approach is a compromise of sorts. I figured well might as well force back to go to previous context activity-wide since it is at least consistent with the rest of the app and other android apps, and use the drawer (open parent, etc) to interact with the feedlist exclusively. it's not ideal but it's kinda the best I could do atm considering.
tldr I'm dumb and android really sucks a lot. Also, don't mark stuff as unread (see above post why).