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For the most part I would go with a dedicated 'Cancel' labelled button rather than an 'x' on mobile.
The target area is generally to small for the user to have a fluid interaction. If you make the 'x' a bigger target area it can be used. A good size might be the one used for delete options(red -). It seems to work quite well for apple so far.
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I would recommend going with the cancel option since most users might not be used to the concept of using the close icon (the X) to close a dialog in a mobile app (you have them in websites) but then with a mobile app the common affordance to what I have found is to to have a distinct cancel option as shown below:
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A lot of application designers - and I am one - suffer from the delusion that their application is the most important application that a user has the privilege of running on their system. They simply cannot imagine that a user would not want keep their application running. Or auto starting for that matter. So, they come up with tricks like minimizing on ...
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Skype (and other communication applications) need to keep running in the background in order to be able to receive messages and calls.
For communication applications (and a few other application categories, antivirus for example), this is - as far as I know - pretty much standard behavior.
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Skype, being a peer-to-peer telecoms application, works much like BitTorrent and other P2P distribution methods by relying on users' own machines and internet connections to route the traffic of other people's calls. This means that, as a Skype user, your machine is being used to facilitate other people's connections even when you aren't making a call ...
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In OSX it is very common for closing a window to not remove the application from the dock. In many applications the window represents a document in the application, while the application itself doesn't have a window. There are also applications like iTunes and Spotify, that don't require a window to continue to play music. Skype doesn't need to have a window ...
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I believe this application (Skype) and many other communication type applications including instant-messengers, email clients and other VOIP apps, hi-jack the "X" button to minimize the more user-frustrating event of accidentally ending a users communication session. In many cases, users might simply want to get the application of the screen, the fastest and ...
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Skype is not the only application which does that. This is a standard behavior of Mac OS applications too.
When you select the 'x' on the window, you are closing the window. Closing windows has different meaning in different applications, in chrome, you are effectively closing all your tabs, but in itunes or outlook, you are effectively just minimizing the ...
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