This may sound a little strange, but I'm making a game for the Android phone, but I don't own one myself. I'm in a bit of a loss in designing my UI and need some suggestions from Anroid phone owners. The general idea is to have a screen where a user can start a board from the beginning or load a previous save game. I'm trying to minimize the UI and would like to give the user to remove any unwanted level or save game from the same selection. Here is what the UI looks like.
Play Level +============+ | level 1 | | level 2 | | level 3 | +============+ Saved Game +============+ | save 1 | | save 2 | | save 3 | +============+
So in terms of a vertical linear layout, there is a textview, listview, textview, listview. The user can touch/click the desired level/save_game to play. But I want to give them the option to delete any old saved game from this same screen. On my palm pre, I would just flick them to the side. This gesture doesn't seem to be available here. So my question is, How does other Andoid apps do this?
[update] I was half way through typing this when a friend of mine called. I remembered that he has an Android phone and he answered my question. Rather than scrapping this message, I thought I would post the answer to my question on the chance it may help someone else.
[answer] Use press+hold to pop-up a dialog. So clicking an item from either list will go right into play game mode. Pressing+holding an item will open a dialog with the option to delete or cancel.
I'd be interested in hearing other suggestions if you have any.