The death of the dreaded dashboard is very welcome, but "side navigation" is nothing but a half-baked transformation of the same idea into a pseudo-fragment implementation.
Google+ is a particularly bad example how to do this. The Google+ layout is much better than it used to be, but it needs a real two-fragment layout on large screens, which it still does not have. Why have a layout that is half-hidden on the right, especially on large screens when two fragments could easily be placed side by side?
Is is possible, even easy, to do a single code-base that "auto-magically" adapts to one Fragment object visible, or two, depending on the platform's choice of layout.
Google+ is a particularly bad example how to do this. The Google+ layout is much better than it used to be, but it needs a real two-fragment layout on large screens, which it still does not have. Why have a layout that is half-hidden on the right, especially on large screens when two fragments could easily be placed side by side?
Is is possible, even easy, to do a single code-base that "auto-magically" adapts to one Fragment object visible, or two, depending on the platform's choice of layout.