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Yeah, who gives a shit about usability when designing UI!?
You've got to be kidding. Going from modal to inline is a huge leap forward in usability.
"huge leap" is quite the exaggeration given that such UI ideas well understood and are decades old. Most average programmers could create a similar iOS control over a lazy weekend.
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Which picker/app is that? Here's the time picker in the Clock app (for setting alarms) on 4.3 (CM 10.2): http://i.imgur.com/KhhHul5.png
It's the time picker in the Calendar app. It was introduced in May: http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/29/google-calendar-for-andro... Personally, I rather like the new time picker and have never experienced any usability problems. Also, the appearance depends on your time settings; the inner circle the parent poster mentions only appears if you use 24-hour time.
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Yeah, that time picker is awesome. All the other apps need to use this one, especially Calendar.
Exactly. Stop being fancy with silly analog clock metaphors - time is numbers , just give me a numerical keypad.
It's another bit of the UI that has been shoved into being "flat", but the metaphor is just lost. If you hadn't seen the iOS6 one it makes absolutely no sense now. For more of this, see the Clock app with it's ridiculous circle buttons and half a blank screen.
I shouldn't worry, you should try Android's time picker. Consider a generation not used to the analogue wrist-watch, and give them a clock face with an outer 24-hour clock and an inner 12 hour clock, and then ask the user to select time using the tip of their finger, on a small phone screen, on the inner or outer circle to the hour and minute that they wish. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SK2ljlhHiCU/UaiEjF1lhGI/AAAAAAABJ…
I remember when people would submit bug reports about things, instead of writing long blog posts about some philosophical strawman.