[android-developers] Re: iPhone to Android: Creating "good" Android Interfaces

2010-01-20 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
> There's also no documentation around the toolbar that native Android > apps use at the bottom of forms (e.g., New Contact has Done / Revert, > Compose Email has Send / Save As Draft / Discard.  Is this toolbar a > standard control? No, but it's not exactly hard to do. For example:

[android-developers] Re: iPhone to Android: Creating "good" Android Interfaces

2010-01-20 Thread Eric Parsons
I completely agree on the lack of robust UX guidelines. There are adequate guidelines around lists and settings, but one area that needs some basic attention are forms. Guidelines around labels and fields, general layout, etc. There's also no documentation around the toolbar that native Android

Re: [android-developers] Re: iPhone to Android: Creating "good" Android Interfaces

2010-01-10 Thread Kent Loobey
On Saturday 09 January 2010 23:18:58 kylestew wrote: ... > I am hoping the Android community will come together on the subject of > interaction design. Its going to take developers making apps with good > usability for Android to beat iPhones market share. +1 -- You received this message because

[android-developers] Re: iPhone to Android: Creating "good" Android Interfaces

2010-01-09 Thread kylestew
Its good to see people really thinking about interaction design. Apple has given their developers many more resources in this are than Google has. As Ben wrote, I try to address some of this at my blog (http:// www.BinarySheep.com) but I have a long way to go. The "+" button behavior on iPhone can

[android-developers] Re: iPhone to Android: Creating "good" Android Interfaces

2010-01-09 Thread Ben Gotow
Hey, That's an interesting article - I can definitely see the menu button changing standard user behaviors and the interactions they come to expect. I'd definitely agree that the context menu is a strong point of the platform. It took me a few weeks to get comfortable with the back button, so I ca

[android-developers] Re: iPhone to Android: Creating "good" Android Interfaces

2010-01-09 Thread Ben Gotow
Kyle Stewart over at BinarySheep.com seems to feel the same way about the lack of HI guidelines. He's drafted his own guidelines off of the iPhone HIG documentation - looks pretty good, but there's lots left to add: http://www.binarysheep.com/?p=108 - Ben On Jan 8, 3:54 am, Michael Rueger wrote