This is a point I have talked about before. That there should be the equivalent to steams shift+tab to access steam overlay and resume.
I originally thought this was the goal for the system menu call(double tap center button). Though I became concerned it was moving away from that. Now it has completely moved away from that and turned into a forced quite. The equivalent of alt+f4. As confirmed by the little popup when you enter a game.
My discussion where I brought this up no admin replied on this topic.
An overlay would be handy so you can do these common things.
like check if friends are playing something or browse for that much needed walk through or world map and switch between them easily.
Also it seems an ideal place for notifications which is currently buried in the manage menu.
It also seems like all the great android features are being buried. Which is just causing problems. like the internet radio app is a service that can run in the background while doing other stuff(like playing a puzzle game). Yet there is no way to access it without exiting the current game and navigating to another app.
Ouya is looking more and more disappointing. I backed an open android device. What I have has the capabilities of ms-dos.
I also know there are annoying technical details this will impose on developers. Like after an activity has lost focus what happens if it is closed due to memory being needed. Well that is just something that will need to happen, and will need to be accounted for like normal android apps do. By serializing your data when on pause is called in case your app gets closed later on. Which you will likely have in one form or another for saving. Plus it is not guaranteed an app will be closed.
Also noteworthy is that if an android activity is transparent or non full sized window the underlying activity will have a higher priority and not be killed unless there is extremely low memory. Also a transparent ouya menu would look kinda cool.
ps please a team ouya person reply(AND ON TOPIC). Last time i brought this up was in march and i had a team ouya person reply twice in the thread but not on topic. just find any games with issues pm me. to a comment someone else made.
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Also a transparent ouya menu would look kinda cool.
ps please a team ouya person reply(AND ON TOPIC).
Last time i brought this up was in march and i had a team ouya person reply twice in the thread but not on topic. just find any games with issues pm me. to a comment someone else made.