Can't test it, as I have an iPod (which is wtf-worthy...), but from what I'm seeing... have they released an API yet? Surely someone can come up with something better.
Google+ for iOS is out
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#82Can any experienced iOS developers please tell me if it is really 'that' hard to make an app iPod Touch compatible? I mean, come on, you just alienate a ton of users without implementing iPod or iPad compatibility...
tldr: Yes.
Long Answer: Depends on the features you're using. If you're reporting location, you can double your edge cases when you start to rely on skyhook to give you locations. Also, the lack of camera may be what's actually filtering you out (if you have an old one).
iPad is incredibly difficult to fill up with certain apps (there is a TON of screen there).
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Even then, I can't think of much you've got to degrade for the iPod touch. The big stuff (screen/ram/graphics/cpu) is near enough identical. If you support the previous gen iPhone, the current gen iPod should be no problem. You can pick up location from wifi... all I can think of not being available is the compass...
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My iPod does.
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#84Can any experienced iOS developers please tell me if it is really 'that' hard to make an app iPod Touch compatible? I mean, come on, you just alienate a ton of users without implementing iPod or iPad compatibility...
Btw iOS doesn't suffer from fragmentation like Android does, make sure to blame it on lazy developers.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
iPad is 'that' hard because it is non-trivial to take advantage of the new screen real estate. Often-times you must implement a completely new navigation model because the stock split view controller is rarely the navigation model you want to use. iPod touch is generally easier. It usually comes down to gracefully degrading features. Much care must also be taken to ensure that the app performs well on the iPod touch…
Probably has a hard requirement for GPS for checkins, which the iPod doesn't have.
That’s stupid, though. iPod touches can competently locate themselves (it’s actually astonishingly precise – at least in cities) even without GPS. Oh, and the app should already behave gracefully when determining the location fails – GPS is most certainly not always available.
It’s just dumb.
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#86Can't believe they went for the same Facebook style launcher, when it's a) used by Facebook b) only got 5 icons c) it's explicitly regarded as bad UI design by Apple (at this WWDC).
What alternate style launchers would you recommend then rather than the standard grid of icons? I agree that it doesn't look very good with few icons and has a bad UX with too many icons, but it seems hard to find something that fits perfectly in the middle.
Twitter, Tweetbot, tumblr, Instagram, Skype and Wunderlist (my most used apps) all get away with the 5 icons on the bottom. They mostly contain 4 main options, plus another screen with configuration and advanced options.
Tweetbot's fourth button allows you to rapidly change its behavior, it's fast enough and the best UI I've seen so far.
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#87this is impossible to find in the app store. conveniently, i have a meeting with the plus folks so i will tell them :)
yes, but you still managed to get it from the link didn't you?
I did, and it looks awesome, much better than Facebook. Really!
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#88Can any experienced iOS developers please tell me if it is really 'that' hard to make an app iPod Touch compatible? I mean, come on, you just alienate a ton of users without implementing iPod or iPad compatibility...
I'm not a dev, but I'd actually be afraid of releasing an app for ipod touch for something so reliant on internet access purely because of the low ratings it would probably get from clueless ipod touch owners...
That doesn’t make much sense. iPod touch owners can still download the app, they just won’t be able to install it. Many of them will be pretty annoyed by that and leave angry reviews. iTunes doesn’t even prompt me about the lacking device support (I don’t have an iPhone, only an iPod touch), it just downloads.
To date the Google+ app has seven reviews in the US app store. Five short five-star ones, two one-star reviews: one complaining about the lacking iOS5 Beta support (incredibly stupid but people apparently write stuff like that) and one complaining about the lacking support for iPod touches.
Excluding the iPod touch may make some sense for apps that fly under the radar – but for something that gets as much exposure as Google+? I doubt it.
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#90Huddles are even more confusing here - when I target my "Friends" circle, it populates the field with specific the names of everyone in that list, including people who aren't in Plus yet. Are they going to get an annoying nag e-mail that I do NOT want to send? I don't know, so I'm not using Huddles yet. This problem is arising frequently for me with Circles - I'm not exactly sure what the impact will be beyond blanke…
I agree about how it's unclear, and I wondered the same thing.
I've experienced this from the other end, though, so I know what actually happens: nothing. I have a couple of friends who included me in huddles days and days ago on their Android devices. It wasn't until today that I knew about them: they were all there for me to read after I installed the app on my iPhone.