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I like the date picker http://developer.android.com/design/building-blocks/pickers....
Fun fact: the up and down arrows work exactly opposite how you expect them to.
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Fun fact: the up and down arrows work exactly opposite how you expect them to.
Hilarious because i've been flip flopping on how they worked. The arrows seem to be a paradigm from mouse-based computing, can you scroll these lists like on ios?
Before you drag: http://i.imgur.com/4MUXO.png
After you press to drag: http://i.imgur.com/BqXMY.png
To be fair, it's a huge improvement over: http://i.imgur.com/2exF7.png
This is a long overdue but very well put-together UI and Usability Guide for Android Developers. My only qualm from reading it thus far is the very last section under Navigation [1] regarding System-to-app navigation: "For the Back key, you should make navigation more predictably [sic] by inserting into the task's back stack the complete upward navigation path to the app's topmost screen." No. This piece of advice is…
http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/multi-pane-layo...
Good advice for rich web apps too.
Note: Microsoft (for once) actually one-up Big G. here. They provide the PSD and fonts for Windows Phone 7 on MSDN + the UX Guidelines.
Also, for Apple, 3rd party made all the PSD and templates for them...
This is a long overdue but very well put-together UI and Usability Guide for Android Developers. My only qualm from reading it thus far is the very last section under Navigation [1] regarding System-to-app navigation: "For the Back key, you should make navigation more predictably [sic] by inserting into the task's back stack the complete upward navigation path to the app's topmost screen." No. This piece of advice is…
Here's an example -- from the homescreen, click a Music widget. The Music app opens and shows the song I was listening to. I want to go back to the playlist I was playing from so I hit back. Instead, I'm dumped back to my home screen. you have to hit the Google Music icon in the top-left to go back within the Music app. I don't mind having to hit back a couple of times because I've learned that you can just keep hitting back and you'll eventually get where you were.
I like the date picker http://developer.android.com/design/building-blocks/pickers....
Does anyone know whether you can manipulate the controls by dragging, or do you really have to use those little up and down buttons?
[1] http://blog.blackwhale.at/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/UIDateP...
I like the date picker http://developer.android.com/design/building-blocks/pickers....
This is a long overdue but very well put-together UI and Usability Guide for Android Developers. My only qualm from reading it thus far is the very last section under Navigation [1] regarding System-to-app navigation: "For the Back key, you should make navigation more predictably [sic] by inserting into the task's back stack the complete upward navigation path to the app's topmost screen." No. This piece of advice is…
This was a huge frustration for me on 2.x. I'm glad they're suggesting that people insert fake activities to fix it. Here's an example -- from the homescreen, click a Music widget. The Music app opens and shows the song I was listening to. I want to go back to the playlist I was playing from so I hit back. Instead, I'm dumped back to my home screen. you have to hit the Google Music icon in the top-left to go back wit…
My assumption was that it would take me up the stack, since when I entered the Mail program and navigated down, Back took me back up. But when I entered from some other place (like the settings app) then back wouldn't take me up to inboxes.
I'm sure it would have made more sense if I realized it was a system-wide Back and not an app-only Back.
I like the date picker http://developer.android.com/design/building-blocks/pickers....
Looks a lot less intuitive than the UIDatePicker in iOS, which is styled like a slot machine [1]. Does anyone know whether you can manipulate the controls by dragging, or do you really have to use those little up and down buttons? [1] http://blog.blackwhale.at/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/UIDateP...
See my other comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3458159
