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Android version L discussion (Complete redesign)
Posted on 6/25/14 at 11:35 am
Posted on 6/25/14 at 11:35 am
LINK
Live LINK to conference
Android L video
lockscreen notifications
L runs exclusively on ART
Touchscreen latency and animations have been enhanced.
Live LINK to conference
Android L video
lockscreen notifications
L runs exclusively on ART
Touchscreen latency and animations have been enhanced.
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Chrome
It's not just look and feel that are getting an update; Chrome is getting a lot of love on mobile as well. It's getting a major redesign—including some of that material design fanciness—which means more cards!
There are some nice touches; if you search for Starry Night, colors from the painting will be applied to the test bars you see. Open multitasking, and you get a card for each of your tabs. Which will be pretty panic-inducing if you—like me and maybe everyone—has way too many tabs open at any given time.
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There's also a new App Indexing UI (pay attention devs!), the main takeaway for Android users being that if you're in Chrome and click an OpenTable link, you'll get sent straight to the restaurant page in the OpenTable app. But because everything is a card, it all feels seamless.
This post was edited on 7/2/14 at 5:27 pm
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Posted on 6/25/14 at 2:11 pm to jeff5891
Looks pretty sweet. Still got the freaking giant Nav bar, I see.
Posted on 6/25/14 at 2:22 pm to h0bnail
This looks cool.
Posted on 6/25/14 at 2:44 pm to jeff5891
I think it looks better than Holo. More for the masses.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 2:18 pm to colorchangintiger
Anyone upload the preview yet?
One cool feature they added, you can create NFC tags for WiFi passwords. If someone wants to use your WiFi just share it over NFC instead of typing it in.
One cool feature they added, you can create NFC tags for WiFi passwords. If someone wants to use your WiFi just share it over NFC instead of typing it in.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 8:17 pm to jeff5891
I'm not a big fan of the PlayStation style on screen buttons, but oh well.
I also wish the lock screen notifications would look better. I like their functionality, but wish they would be transparent or something. I like dash clock widgets more than the new setup, but I haven't played with it yet.
Speaking of that, are lock screen widgets still available on L?
I also wish the lock screen notifications would look better. I like their functionality, but wish they would be transparent or something. I like dash clock widgets more than the new setup, but I haven't played with it yet.
Speaking of that, are lock screen widgets still available on L?
Posted on 6/27/14 at 8:54 pm to lsulaker
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Speaking of that, are lock screen widgets still available on L?
No
Posted on 6/27/14 at 8:59 pm to lsulaker
I dig it. Cant wait.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 9:19 pm to lsulaker
quote:apparently they are just placeholders for now
I'm not a big fan of the PlayStation style on screen buttons
Posted on 6/28/14 at 8:09 am to jeff5891
Looks like there taking ideas from htc sense 6 with the colors.
Posted on 6/28/14 at 8:37 am to jeff5891
Looks nice! This confirms my decision to hang onto my Note3 until the next wave of flagships come around.
Posted on 6/30/14 at 7:35 am to Uncle JackD
When will developers get this so I can put it on my HTC One?
Posted on 6/30/14 at 9:13 am to jeff5891
I just downloaded the Android L keyboard for my Galaxy nexus. My old Gnex stock android keyboard was bogging down lately and couldn't keep up with me. The new keyboard is great though and very fast.
Posted on 6/30/14 at 12:36 pm to AmateurMenace
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Looks like there taking ideas from htc sense 6 with the colors.
My first thought as well.
Posted on 7/1/14 at 9:43 am to jeff5891
The Smart Problem-Solving Behind Android’s Awesome New Design Language
Loving the top two comments. I hope no one's a UX designer here. Lol...
Loving the top two comments. I hope no one's a UX designer here. Lol...
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Frank Malloy • 17 hours ago
"It was very much like water seeping up from the ground,” Duarte tells WIRED. “We finally reached a critical mass."
Oh please. All this glorification and embellishment. New age-y descriptions and silly metaphors. You're designing a bunch of graphics on a screen. Don't make it out like you've reached the Age of Enlightenment. It's not software design, its "user experience". Oh wow, that's heavy man...
I swear UI people are the most arrogant of the software developers. Get off your high horse. You're not curing cancer.
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ChrisShield5
You're right. I'm getting tired of every designer explaining why their new UI is "revolutionary" with these dumbed down metaphors. If you read Tufte, he makes it pretty clear to not treat your audience like a bunch of idiots. Good UX design shouldn't be a selling point, it should be intrinsic to any quality product; overselling makes it super-lame.
In their defense, UX people get treated like their work is lesser. I've seen so many managers go "ahhh lets just hire a UI guy once it's working to clean it up". Same goes for hardware engineering and industrial design (ID is even more important to get right early-it will affect everything).
A good UX team will be responsible for how the product actually works, it's feature set and how the product is used. For example, UX will design a process to "send a email" with the minimum amount of user effort. Then, the software engineers will figure out the architecture needed.Then, devs will get to work.
If you add design as an afterthought, you waste a bunch of time developing garbage. For example imagine a separate "enter your recipient" screen, after you've written your email. That would truly suck. But, I wouldn't be surprised if the original E-Mail prototype worked that way before some clever UX thinking guy said "let's put a "TO" and "CC" field above the message". Drop-box is worth billions because it's drag-and-drop and simple, if it was a nasty file chooser it might have failed.
This post was edited on 7/1/14 at 9:47 am
Posted on 7/1/14 at 8:10 pm to jeff5891
The more I see of L, the less I am a fan of:
1 The pastel colors
2 The buttons, which are supposedly placeholders
3 The blocky lock screen widgets- moto x and dash clock widget handled them better
4 The notification shade quick settings menu- wheres the battery %- I use this all the time
5 The recents, which are smoother but show less info than before because the cards are stacked so closely
I am a big fan of ART and 60 fps (under the hood changes) but not sold on the functionality changes
1 The pastel colors
2 The buttons, which are supposedly placeholders
3 The blocky lock screen widgets- moto x and dash clock widget handled them better
4 The notification shade quick settings menu- wheres the battery %- I use this all the time
5 The recents, which are smoother but show less info than before because the cards are stacked so closely
I am a big fan of ART and 60 fps (under the hood changes) but not sold on the functionality changes
Posted on 7/1/14 at 11:46 pm to lsulaker
I wouldn't put much stock into what the preview looks like. Many are thinking the styles and colors will change drastically for the final release.
Though the recents and lock screen probably won't change much
Though the recents and lock screen probably won't change much
This post was edited on 7/1/14 at 11:48 pm
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