So who here knows about long-press home

shwaip

If you've got an android phone, holding the home button will bring up your recently opened programs. I just learned about it and found it quite useful...had no idea before last week, so I figured other people might not know about it as well.

Ivan

CB

I just learned about it recently, also. I saw Betsy do it on her phone, and she was surprised that I didn't know. "Don't you read the manuals for your devices?" she asked.

I got RTFMN'd by my wife. :D

CrazyJoe

I did it by accident once, that's how I figured it out...

Thrax

RTFM, dudes.

shwaip

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Thrax

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Gargoyle

On my G1, I long pressed all the buttons. Sometimes you had to long press just to get a press. And that's how discoveries are made.

Of course, for awhile I thought swearing at the phone was what brought up the recently opened programs list. Wrong association.

Kwitko

Older than the crust in Thrax's drawers.

Thrax

Kwitko said:

Older than the crust in Thrax's drawers.

Tushon

Thrax said:

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BlackHawk

Some custom Eclair ROM's I've used had it awhile back but it wasn't 'til FroYo that it was standard.

V-P

I'm sure most of you guys have realized this already but holding menu brings up the keyboard on any screen. So far I haven't found a use for doing it since the keyboard comes up automatically after clicking on an input field but you never know.

ardichoke

I think that's mostly in there for phones with a physical keyboard as there are conditions where they soft keyboard wouldn't pop up on such devices.

EDIT: Also, for apps like sshdroid which, at least the last time I used it, didn't automatically pop a keyboard up.

Snarkasm

In ICS, at least with the lightly-tweaked Modaco ROM I'm running, long-press does nothing for any button, including menu. Menu has been more or less removed, and following ICS UI conventions, should be placed contextually as pretty much a vertical ellipsis where you need to provide more options; as such, it's not even guaranteed to be there lots of times, so it has no functionality now.

Long-press home has been sort of replaced with the task manager. It's not quite the same in practice, since long-press home could bring up apps that you'd manually killed and the task manager can't, but in most cases it's functionally equivalent.