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03-17-2014, 02:00 PM
http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/qdt1rf.s6MzZznzfr76sdA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/android-radial-menu-patent.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/google-seriously-cool-android-radial-menu-design-revealed-174938359.html)We’ve seen designs for radial menus in Android before but they’ve never looked this cool or this detailed. Patent Bolt has spotted a recently published Google patent that shows how Google might take its previous radial menu designs to another level by adding sub-menus that branch out from the basic radial menu options. As you can see in the picture above, Google has designed a system that lets you use your thumb as an anchor and then lets you use your index finger to open up the sub-menu options. In this way Google seems to have added a lot more different options into the radial menu than in the Android menu we saw back in 2012 that only imagined a



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