Episode 187: System UI: A Retrospective
Android Developers Backstage
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The Honeycomb U I Was the First Thing We Did for Android Tablets
Honeycomb was the first time we had a separate on screen, you know, home button, back button. We pulled that down to the bttom of thescreen for reachability reasons. The gridh it was all that sort of tron evoking kind of blue glow kind of stuff. Only when i use a relative's phone do i see like, oh, your still have the search button? It's default off, but we keep it because some people find buttons easier than others.
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