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Android Software Thread - Tasty Desserts, Tastier Apps
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kaching said:
Damn, the Nexus just made it. :lol I guess by the time Gingerbread is out I would had had the phone for a year, so it's not so bad.
In regards to the UX...Eh, not if Duarte has anything to say about that. Let's hope is "intuitive" in the end. I do like the Gallery app but I'm just not sure how it would translate on to the rest of the OS.
gcubed said:yeah, well at least the nexus one has enough life to last me two years
Well, the specs give me hope that all Gingerbread revision will probably coded to run with the minimum specs (Nexus One), so all higher spec'ed models will have no problem handling it. After this release we should be good for another year...can't ask for more.
Macho Madness
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I guess the Droid is now officially old news with those new restrictions.
I don't think that's a coincidence. No way Google is gonna kick their "superphone" to the curb that easily.SimleuqiR said:
:lol Duarte this, Duarte that. He's not a savior, Sim. If this release is really targeted for mid-October, he's not going to have much time to put his imprint on it.
kaching said:I don't think that's a coincidence. No way Google is gonna kick their "superphone" to the curb that easily.
:lol Duarte this, Duarte that. He's not a savior, Sim. If this release is really targeted for mid-October, he's not going to have much time to put his imprint on it.
At the least he's had from the time Froyo went open-source to the time Gingerbread does the same. Seems like that's a decent amount of influence. Still, I don't think his presence will really be felt until the following release, you're right.
negreenfield
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Are you just talking about in HTC Sense? That's the only place I've seen there a lockscreen music widget besides the pay version of MixZing and "3" music player.andycapps said:
kaching said:I don't think that's a coincidence. No way Google is gonna kick their "superphone" to the curb that easily.
:lol Duarte this, Duarte that. He's not a savior, Sim. If this release is really targeted for mid-October, he's not going to have much time to put his imprint on it.
Duarte, save us all!!
The thing is that the Gallery App was designed by Coolaris, it wasn't even the Android team (well maybe they had some input). So I hope Gingerbread is influenced by Duarte in some way.
I want the notification bar to be the main core for the new UX, not sure how I see what's done on the Gallery app translate into. The notification system is what has made Android so usefully.
Great idea, I fully support that. Right now, the biggest limitation of the notification panel is that devs can't put any actual controls there for their apps - they format the notifications images, text styles, etc. but all the notification can actually do is launch the app (or a uri into the app). But if they could start hosting actual app controls in the notification panel, that would be huge.SimleuqiR said:
Oh, and a hearty FINALLY for a decent Tasks app that syncs with Gmail Tasks. GTasks. Note the capital 'G', not to be confused with the mess that is gTasks.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/org.dayup.gtask
http://www.appbrain.com/app/org.dayup.gtask
Bad_Boy said:I'm sure with a little rooting, and some overclocking...it could be done.
Makes sense. For the few who'll do it (most people here I guess).
This being said, that means a lot of android customers will finally feel like their phone is subpar... I wonder what the consequences will be from a business standpoint. I know I'll feel like upgrading for a better physical keyboard android phone come July 2011 (end of my contract).
The new ones coming out are mostly 1 GHz. If you're talking about market share, then that could be an issue. Only the Nexus One/Desire meet the minimum requirements.zoku88 said:
http://metrics.admob.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/May-2010-AdMob-Mobile-Metrics-Highlights.pdf
giga said:The new ones coming out are mostly 1 GHz. If you're talking about market share, then that could be an issue. Only the Nexus One/Desire meet the minimum requirements.
http://metrics.admob.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/May-2010-AdMob-Mobile-Metrics-Highlights.pdf
We'll have to see what the new numbers are eventually. Obviously this was prior to the Incredible and EVO coming to the market.
negreenfield said:
You may be right, I have an HTC phone so I wasn't really sure where the lockscreen functionality was coming from, just that it worked. So yeah, I guess it is from the HTC music app. Either way, I love it and it's keeping me from using Doubletwist once I discovered it was there.
negreenfield
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I'm actually using the Desire port on my Nexus One still. I just really like Sense UI, I know it's not for everyone but I asked because it is one of the things holding me back from going to Froyo for now or possibly waiting for a Desire Froyo port (if it ever happens, most likely months from now). There are other things such as all the great HTC widgets and just the overall look and feel but that's definitely one I like. I just wish the stock music app worked with Genres other than ID3v1andycapps said:
negreenfield
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I really wish there was the perfect Music app that combined the following features. If there's some magic app I haven't found yet that can do all of these it would be amazing (I think MixZing might be the closest but I don't want to pay $7) Right now I have 4, Stock, Museek, "3", and MixZing (non-paid)
Create playlists based on what music I'm currently listening to (Museek and MixZing do this)
Lockscreen widget ("3" no album art, HTC Sense default Music, and paid MixZing)
Gapless playback (Museek so far the only one that I know of)
Multiple Widget sizes (Most do this, Museek is the only one that does not)
Trackball skip (Works on rooted with stock music app or Music Mod 1.7.5 and Froyo)
Create playlists based on what music I'm currently listening to (Museek and MixZing do this)
Lockscreen widget ("3" no album art, HTC Sense default Music, and paid MixZing)
Gapless playback (Museek so far the only one that I know of)
Multiple Widget sizes (Most do this, Museek is the only one that does not)
Trackball skip (Works on rooted with stock music app or Music Mod 1.7.5 and Froyo)
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...the 2.1 gallery app is fucking terrible.
I really hope theres not much stock in that becoming the UX guideline for the whole OS.
Why does it tilt when I tilt my phone? It doesn't make any sense.
It's the most useless piece of shit ever. It's shitty and Google should feel shitty for producing it.
I really hope theres not much stock in that becoming the UX guideline for the whole OS.
Why does it tilt when I tilt my phone? It doesn't make any sense.
It's the most useless piece of shit ever. It's shitty and Google should feel shitty for producing it.
jonnybryce
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Jtwo said:
wtf? Why does it's tilt effect bother you so much? Don't tilt it to see it tilt if you don't want to see it tilt maybe?
It's full of eye candy and is super clean. It's an awesome app and look and I'm pretty excited that it'll spread to the rest of the OS, something I've been hoping would happen for a while. The Gallery looks 3D, clean and futuristic. Using it, it's zoom buttons or share menu and then jumping back into the browser feels like a time warp.
I'm all for this news.
edit: It's a little annoying to see comments about the official split for 3.0 and 2.1/2 devices. Everyone cried about fragmentation and being tricked into phones with no updates, so now Googles making it simple and people are still crying. Again, little crap phones like the Cliq XT were made to appeal to tweens or non-power users, have some cool social features and that's that. They run Android because it's free, gets most of the work done for the manufacturer and bakes in a ton of features. They probably weren't intended to be monitored and updated through every new Android revision, and for some reason buyers don't grasp that concept.
Well now you'll know. A 2.1/2 phone is just a lower end, won't ever be updated but runs Android because we want it to phone that no one can complain about being trapped or not knowing the situation when buying. I'm all for this, too. I wanted a split, a certification system. Pretty much what I had in mind, just implemented a little differently.
kaching said:
agreed.
the idea is nice, but the app has got some flaws that are pretty serious when trying to make use of some of the nicer features of the OS. ie, the share menu is broken beyond belief in that it can't scroll and is really only good in landscape mode for a few applications to be listed.
It tries to be a little too clever for its own good and doesn't fully nail the execution. It has a few features like the tilting that are "Ok, cool, but why?" type of things and it breaks some basic UI requirements like soco points out. That screams wrong priorities and wouldn't be something I'd want to see extended to the entire OS.jonnybryce said:
I can see taking a few select pieces from it - the transparent styling of the menus, the breadcrumb trail navigation at the top. The rest, not so much.
Knowing why these people were crying in the first place, it shouldn't be any surprise why they're still crying.
kaching said:
It's fine to me if they cry as long as Google doesn't listen to them. iPhone is dealing with this now with the 3G being left behind on some of the big features. 3GS will probably be left behind on their next update. Lot of these people's phones were mid-range phones when they got them, so you can't expect for Google to dumb down their upgrades to the lowest common denominator when there's such a huge gulf in performance from the top phones now and phones like the Moment, Cliq, G1, etc. There will always be ROM's done and the people on GAF that want future firmware's can always go that route.
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Netflix hiring Android developers, client on the way http://goo.gl/fb/l8b1w
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In my opinion the eye candy totally gets in the way of usability.jonnybryce said:
Yes, the popup share menu is MUCH better than the scrollable overlay of other apps, but they can have that without all the BS.
DanielPlainview said:
Apparently that news is a couple months old. http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/netflix-looking-to-hire-android-video-playback-expert/
The rumor of a Netflix Android app is a few months old by now, so I hope they've made some decent progress by now and actually have something on the market within the next few months.
It's always been about maintaining the narrative of Apple's carefully cultivated walled garden vs. Google's unruly open-sourced community garden, despite how neither really fits the narrative as well as pundits make it seem.andycapps said:
I tend to agree with you. Its evident Google had no idea how to create a visually appealing, yet also competent and intuitive, gallery app, so they thought it best to outsource. Considering that, I was slightly underwhelmed with the gallery app. Some of the menus and options are really nice, but it seems like it makes some sacrifices in order to appear flashy and cool.Jtwo said:
I actually really like the HTC Sense gallery at the moment. It has a very clean look and big, nice-looking thumbnails arranged in a grid that takes up the entire viewable area in the gallery. It's so easy to scroll through you thumbnails and make out the pics. I guess it is similar to the iPhone's gallery view in that respect.
How about we stop assuming that the Gallery app will be copied to the T and instead think of it in terms of the nice transitions, transparency, and polish the Gallery app has and not how it will mean anything for the UI itself. There's a long way to go before we see anything of Gingerbread so stop worrying.
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SimleuqiR said:
Yep. Hmm, it now seems to be working. Odd.
I have been setting up google voice and I think I got it almost working, but when I try to enter the google voice app it shows a pop up saying Call settings and says reading settings... with a loading animation. It has been sitting like this for an hour or so...
Any ideas DroidGAF?
Any ideas DroidGAF?
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DanielPlainview said:
I can't wait to see how well this works.
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