Android can be beautiful

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Post by mephju » Mon, Sep 17, 2012, 4:27 PM UTC

Android can be beautiful
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Re: Android can be beautiful

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Post by micheljansen » Mon, Sep 17, 2012, 4:45 PM UTC

Some of these are really nice. I'm curious how many of these are Android-specific though. Path looks pretty similar on iOS and so do FourSquare, Flipboard etc. Which of these are examples of good mobile design that holds itself on various platforms (iOS, Android etc.) and which are unique to Android?

Re: Android can be beautiful

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Post by rprasad » Mon, Sep 17, 2012, 4:51 PM UTC

This site contains a stack overflow bug which crashes Firefox and IE9 on Windows.

Flagged.

Re: Android can be beautiful

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Post by mtgx » Mon, Sep 17, 2012, 4:51 PM UTC

micheljansen wrote: post #2

Some of these are really nice. I'm curious how many of these are Android-specific though. Path looks pretty similar on iOS and so do FourSquare, Flipboard etc. Which of these are examples of good mobile design that holds itself on various platforms (iOS, Android etc.) and which are unique to Android?

Some of them definitely use the Holo UI style, while others use their own non-holo/non-iOS style, although I wouldn't know if they use the same one for their iOS apps, too.

Re: Android can be beautiful

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Post by seunghomattyang » Mon, Sep 17, 2012, 4:52 PM UTC

Reminds me of what Chief Creative Officer at doubleTwist said about designing for Android:

>> As it stands, If you design a great app for Android and people say 'hey, that looks like an Android app', that means you've failed.[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/sdw/status/187245772205600769

Re: Android can be beautiful

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Post by mtgx » Mon, Sep 17, 2012, 4:52 PM UTC

rprasad wrote: post #3

This site contains a stack overflow bug which crashes Firefox and IE9 on Windows. Flagged.

Works fine in Chrome.

Re: Android can be beautiful

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Post by zobzu » Mon, Sep 17, 2012, 4:55 PM UTC

is it bad if i find it inconsistent, annoying to use, etc?

I mean, it is pretty (well, arguably, most of them are), but, the buttons are all over the place and everyone seems to have it's own UI plastered on top of more or less "android ui compliant" stuff.

Re: Android can be beautiful

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Post by angryasian » Mon, Sep 17, 2012, 4:57 PM UTC

zobzu wrote: post #7

is it bad if i find it inconsistent, annoying to use, etc? I mean, it is pretty (well, arguably, most of them are), but, the buttons are all over the place and everyone seems to have it's own UI plastered on top of more or less "android ui compliant" stuff.

the inconsistencies are usually defined by the developers. As you can see most these apps are available to the ios store as well. So its really not fair to judge the platform vs the developers.

Re: Android can be beautiful

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Post by rradu » Mon, Sep 17, 2012, 4:57 PM UTC

seunghomattyang wrote: post #5

Reminds me of what Chief Creative Officer at doubleTwist said about designing for Android: >> As it stands, If you design a great app for Android and people say 'hey, that looks like an Android app', that means you've failed.[1] [1] https://twitter.com/sdw/status/187245772205600769

I don't think that's true. Some of these apps use elements from the Holo UI themes that are distinctly Android, and still look beautiful.

Re: Android can be beautiful

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Post by verganileonardo » Mon, Sep 17, 2012, 4:58 PM UTC

seunghomattyang wrote: post #5

Reminds me of what Chief Creative Officer at doubleTwist said about designing for Android: >> As it stands, If you design a great app for Android and people say 'hey, that looks like an Android app', that means you've failed.[1] [1] https://twitter.com/sdw/status/187245772205600769

Before Android 4.0, yes. The new UI is beautiful.