Trading off screen space for feature visibility cannot be good for content-heavy applications. You can always trigger or "force" interaction on the user but yo

Trading off screen space for feature visibility cannot be good for content-heavy applications. You can always trigger or "force" interaction on the user but you can't force content on a user after you lose screen space. I'm sick of reading late criticisms about standard stuff that made its way into Android guidelines. There was the Dashboard, then there was Navigation Drawer, now Google+ completely changed a few things altogether. If you want to make all features so visible, then why not use Dashboards ? In one screen, you list all critical features and in subsequent screens you have all the space for content. [Ignoring the fact that Dashboards make the app look old] Or heck, we had real Menus before that, magically, heroically placed in lower part of the screen! Not an ActionBar on top of the screen where you strain your thumb in mega screens. But no... definitely no. Everybody has to advertise something else.