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Without it, users wouldn't be able to customize the most frequently-visited Android screen to meet their needs.
Users can't do this through a button or a menu.
Many high value functions invoked through a gesture - like scrolling, swiping tabs, and turning pages - are common and yield expected results. Users will be able to discover them in your app, and unsolicited help is unnecessary. But here, the gesture does something unexpected: press and hold doesn't just select an app, it also immediately navigates to the Home Screen and creates a shortcut to the app that can then be dragged around.
However, this is an exceptional case. Most functionality doesn't meet all three of these criteria.
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When someone chooses "Help":
Present a dialog asking them to choose between help and other options.
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+ Present a dialog asking them to choose between help and other options.
+Immediately launch a web browser with help content. Place other options in a footer.
- Build a help screen in your app and offer other options in the action bar.
This requires more development work than launching a web browser, but it's a nicer experience for users because they don't leave your app to get the help they need and doesn't require a network connection.
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