Buttons in the action bar vs on screen
I have a question that is more about the user experience than a technical
issue. As such, it may not belong here (let me know if it doesn't) but
it's something that's bothering me.
I'm building an application to help with learning English which has a quiz
section with multiple choice questions. Most of the applications like that
(including my old applications developed for Android 2.x) have a layout of
the screen that goes like:
Answer 1
Answer 2
Answer 3
Button "Check"
Button "Skip"
The user selects an answer and clicks the button to check it and go to the
next question. If they don't want to answer the question, they press Skip.
That layout is quite intuitive and easy to grasp.
Now, I would like to use the action bar for all the actions the user may
take. My problem is that while having Next action is ok (with the icon of
arrow pointing right), adding another action of Skip makes the action bar
unclear. Is just my inability to come up with the right icon for skipping?
Or is it a problem with the icons in the action bar not necessarily being
easy to understand and use?
What do you think?