Tag Archive for 'android'

Say Goodbye to the Menu Button →

Geplaatst door Jan Seurinck op 27/01/2012 in linklistblog er zijn 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

On the official Android Developers Blog, Google is getting really serious about the consistency thing for Ice Cream Sandwich:

Instead of thinking about a menu that serves as a catch-all for various user options, you should think more about which user options you want to display on the screen as actions. Those that don’t need to be on the screen can overflow off the screen. Users can reveal the overflow and other options by touching an overflow button that appears alongside the on-screen action buttons.

Android Design Guide →

Geplaatst door Jan Seurinck op 14/01/2012 in linklistblog er zijn 0 Comments Tags: , , .

So much for ‘Google doesn’t care about design’.

Android development speeds up: Market tops 400.000 apps →

Geplaatst door Jan Seurinck op 06/01/2012 in linklistblog er zijn 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

The fact of the matter is number don’t matter when you have the 100 apps that count. In a sense 400.000 equals 16 for me as those are the essentials I use. There are more than 1000 search results for the word fart on the android market and 899 in the App store. I guess Apple wins this one.

Windows Phone is Superior; Why Hasn’t it Taken Off?

Geplaatst door Jan Seurinck op 28/12/2011 in linklistblog er zijn 1 Comment Tags: , , , .

Windows Phone is Superior; Why Hasn’t it Taken Off? | cek.log.

Former Windows Phone Manager tries to explain why Windows Phone fails although it is superior to in this case Android:

The question is: will end-user dissatisfaction with Android’s inconsistencies and fragmentation be strong enough to allow the better product to succeed.

There is no such thing as end-user dissatisfaction with Android’s inconsistencies. There is less than one percent of us who use different handsets over the period of a year. It’s not even the legendary 1% who does this.

I bet the majority of Android users don’t care whether they are using Froyo, Gingerbread or Ice Cream Sandwich. They care for style and for apps. For speed. For the people they connect with through the device. And for price.

All the rest is a waste of analysis.

Instagram photo app for Android is under way →

Geplaatst door Jan Seurinck op 10/12/2011 in linklistblog er zijn 0 Comments Tags: , , .

I truly cannot understand why Instagram makes the move to Android. Surely, it will become hugely popular but Instagram had that touch to it. If I wasn’t embedded in the Google environment so much, I would have considered an iPhone just to be able to get this app. This non-exclusivity will kill Instagram, not the ads.

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