Back button does not return you to the previous application

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Start BoxeeRemote
2. Click the back button on the device.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected to return to the previous application or home screen.
Instead, BoxeeRemote stays active. This breaks assumptions on how an 
android application is supposed to work (IE Back button should always take 
you back to where you were). This is what lead some users to request a 
"Quit" feature

Technical:
Need to modify BoxeeRemote.onKeyDown()

Original issue reported on code.google.com by cemetery...@gmail.com on 3 Apr 2009 at 2:47

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Original comment by cemetery...@gmail.com on 3 Apr 2009 at 2:54

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Oh, that's what they meant! I'm not sure what we should do here. I really like 
being
able to navigate boxee without looking at the screen, which requires a hardware
button. We could make this an option or somehow overload another hardware 
button?

Original comment by chat...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2009 at 3:40

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Original comment by chat...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2009 at 3:41

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I figure we have a few options.

1. Turn on this behavior in the settings screen.
2. Use another button, like "Send" or Camera. I don't think this makes much 
sense though.
3. Long press the back button to trigger the behavior.
4. Employ a touch screen gesture instead.

Note that some future devices might not have all the hardware buttons we are 
used to on the G1.

Original comment by cemetery...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2009 at 4:26

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All Android devices are required to have the app buttons on the G1. It doesn't 
seem
to be on the android site anymore, but at
http://www.netmite.com/android/mydroid/development/pdk/docs/system_requirements.
html
it mentions "5-way navigation with 5 application keys, power, camera and volume
controls". It may not be a trackball, but all phones will have some kind of
directional buttons and home/back/ok/call/hangup.

Original comment by chat...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2009 at 4:34

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Good to know. So anyway how do you wanna proceed?

Original comment by cemetery...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2009 at 4:44

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I was just using the remote without touching the screen and I can see the 
appeal of
it. It's nice to be able to look at the TV continuously, and the back button 
makes
sense in that context. 

However if you the type of user that prefers using the screen it makes less 
sense,
especially because you already have a back button on-screen.

Perhaps it would make more sense to those users if the screen displayed more
information about the task at hand. For example, It would give you dialogs as 
they
pop up and other little things like that. I don't know if this is possible at 
this
point as I am not a Boxee expert.

If the user is using the back button to control boxee, perhaps we could have a 
menu
item which allows you to go back or 'quit'.

(btw in cases where you're not connected to a server, the back button should 
probably
take you out of the app.)

Original comment by cemetery...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2009 at 7:57

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Perhaps a long hold on the back button to close, this is used in many other 
programs and I like it.

Original comment by darkflui...@gmail.com on 27 Feb 2010 at 2:36

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I'd be happy the back button to navigate back within the boxee remote.

Some other applications already do this. And if you press back on application 
home screen you see a message like "press back twice to exit". Very soon you 
got used to it and it seems to be naturally - no special back button for 
navigation (this seems to be a bit odd and i often miss it pressing the real 
back button i got used to).

Original comment by popu...@gmail.com on 20 Dec 2010 at 9:52