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I'm currently using Pure Calendar widget with the HTC Sense Calendar to create entries, etc.
But, the Sense calendar is so basic it is unbelievable! I've tried searching all the calendar apps but most seem to focus on the 'front end'/widget aspect of things. I'm not even able to put a 'priority/importance status'!
Can anyone please recommend a decent replace app? Something akin to Pocket Informant or Agenda Fusion on the WinMo platform.
EDIT: I see Pocket Informant may be releasing for Android in the near future.
Yeah, I'd love to see a fully featured calendar app as well. I'm currently using CalendarPad on my X10, as it has a better interface than the stock SE calendar. However, it uses the stock event entry interface, which could definitely use some enhancements.
Biggest thing of interest for me would be for it to have an auto-entry list for the fields, so I'm not manually typing something like "Mom & Dad's" every time I have an event at their place. On my old iPAQ (running WinMo 6.1) I had a calendar app (SBSH Calendar, iirc) where I could build a list of commonly used locations, events, etc, and then pull from that when entering a new event.
@sh500
You can try Jorte. It at least as the important/non-important status for an event.
@saltorio
When making a new event in Jorte, you can choose existing event names to use or modify. Same goes for the location field. It's also ridiculously customizable (you can color code based on day of week or type of event or both) so I'm sure you can get the interface the way you want.
Check it out http://www.jorte.net/english/jorte.html
I recommend Jorte too. It is the best calendar application I have ever tried. When you customize the look it looks just incredible too .
c00ller said:
@sh500
You can try Jorte. It at least as the important/non-important status for an event.
@saltorio
When making a new event in Jorte, you can choose existing event names to use or modify. Same goes for the location field. It's also ridiculously customizable (you can color code based on day of week or type of event or both) so I'm sure you can get the interface the way you want.
Check it out http://www.jorte.net/english/jorte.html
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Thanks for the suggestion. I've installed the app and played around with it a bit. A few things noted:
- Doesn't integrated with Pure Calendar Widget (?).
- The widgets are not customisble (colour, etc).
- A very basic Task application. I currently use Astrid for this and it works well.
- Integration with existing calendar other than Google is very limited (important when it comes to sync'ing).
Definitely better than the HTC Sense Calendar in terms of interface and certain features.
I guess, just like anything else, when you're used to using something that almost does everything (Pocket Informant) any else will just not do
Thanks for the tip on Jorte. Wish it had a more interesting widget layout but other than that it looks to be what I can live with. Smooth Calendars 3 even outlook was bad considering I hold baseball games on my calendar.
Widgets in Jorte are totally customizable... infinite possibilities of recolouring. To get into settings you must choose a scheme first, then you can edit it. It is a kind of minigame first but you will quickly get it right.
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Widgets in Jorte are totally customizable... infinite possibilities of recolouring. To get into settings you must choose a scheme first, then you can edit it. It is a kind of minigame first but you will quickly get it right.
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I think I found what you're talking about: choose a style, then customize. But the only things I saw adjustable for the widget were 2 things, one of which was the widget border color. I just want to enlarge the text on the widget! IMO it's way too small.
I have three issues with Jorte as a replacement for google calendar.
The text in the widgets needs to be adjustable.
If you copy your existing calendar(s) from google you can not edit the events
It does not import ics files
Yep, agreed with many of the issues raised. We need the best bits from all existing apps rolled into one and then just a few features thrown in for good measure.
Many argue that the Android is not a 'business phone' (hence the basic functionality) and also not have features such as proxy settings. I totally disagree with that reason, many 'business' functions seem quite simple to implement and the OS is more than capable. Oh sync'ing is another one where WM wins (!)
I need a better calendar app too. My needs are better notification options. Ability to change length of snooze for an eventis one feature I need.. and to be able to snooze specific notifications while being able to dismiss others..
Needs to be more blackberry like.
As an Android nut and graphic/industrial/UI designer I've been thinking a lot about this recently, and just had to get it off my chest. Here goes:
UI styling should be about the content, not the interface. Glossy elements just distract from their actual content. There should be a move away from what Apple does with iOS (emulating analogue elements digitally) towards what Microsoft did with WP7. WP7 showed that you can have an interface without any sort of shininess/gradient or analogue elements and still have it be completely usable and beautiful at the same time.
But what I'm really interested in is the future of Android. Gingerbread was a great step ahead in terms of UI styling. But I wonder what we will see when Sense UI, Motoblur, TouchWiz etc. are updated to 2.3? Sense is notorious for faux glossiness and TouchWiz is notorious for being plain ugly. Will WP7 and Gingerbread help these companies realize that the trend is moving away from iOS-eque styling and towards WP7-esque styling? Or will they continue to blindly copy iOS and ignore Google's attempts to beautify Android? My guess is that they will eventually catch on, but it might take a while. Perhaps if WP7 takes off and commands a decent market share these companies will take notice. We've already seen previews of Sony Ericsson's 2.3 TimeScape skin and LG's 2.3 whatever-it's-called skin and they both appear to have abandoned Gingerbread's gradient-less notifications bar and title bar and replaced them with gradients. Too bad.
Also, what will Honeycomb bring? We've now seen previews of the tablet version, and I can see many 2.3 styling cues in 3.0. One thing I noticed though is that it uses blue as the 'accent color'. Gingerbread strongly reinforced orange as Android's accent color so I wonder why they would change this. What I'm hoping is that the accent color can be changed- it's certainly plausible, as the accent color seems to play a huge part in the Honeycomb previews I've seen. Or perhaps phones will remain orange and tablets will be blue? It seems like a strange differentiation.
Hints at UI change in the phone-version of Honeycomb include new text-entry fields (looks like the Android keyboard spacebar symbol but stretched), a new look and swiping interaction for tabs within apps (seen in the leaked Music 3.0 app, the 2.1 News and Weather app and the new YouTube app), and like I mentioned, color accents everywhere. Videos of Honeycomb show pop-ups, scroll bars, loading rings/bars and menus featuring the glowing blue accent.
What I'm wondering about is this 'UI overhaul' that everyone is talking about. Is it going to be mostly visual like the stuff I mentioned above or is it going to completely change the UI paradigms of Android? I think a huge change in UI akin to the WM6.5 > WP7 transition would alienate a lot of users and break a lot of apps. Therefore I'm thinking 3.0 is going to be a few tweaks to the interaction part of the UI, but a huge change to the visuals. I predict they will update almost all of the core apps to match the graphics we are seeing in 2.3 and 3.0, to finally put to rest those complaints that Android looks 'hacked together'. The changes in 2.3 were probably a catalyst, to get developers thinking in this new design language. Google needs a name for it, just like WP7 'Metro'. After all it's up to the developers to make apps that match this style.
I'm a Nexus fan and would never buy a phone without stock Android so maybe this is just me dreaming of an end to carrier/manufacturer skins, but what do you think?
As long as it have the look and feel of ADW.Launcher. It can have what ever UI.
chrizzled said:
As an Android nut and graphic/industrial/UI designer I've been thinking a lot about this recently, and just had to get it off my chest. Here goes:
UI styling should be about the content, not the interface. Glossy elements just distract from their actual content. There should be a move away from what Apple does with iOS (emulating analogue elements digitally) towards what Microsoft did with WP7. WP7 showed that you can have an interface without any sort of shininess/gradient or analogue elements and still have it be completely usable and beautiful at the same time.
But what I'm really interested in is the future of Android. Gingerbread was a great step ahead in terms of UI styling. But I wonder what we will see when Sense UI, Motoblur, TouchWiz etc. are updated to 2.3? Sense is notorious for faux glossiness and TouchWiz is notorious for being plain ugly. Will WP7 and Gingerbread help these companies realize that the trend is moving away from iOS-eque styling and towards WP7-esque styling? Or will they continue to blindly copy iOS and ignore Google's attempts to beautify Android? My guess is that they will eventually catch on, but it might take a while. Perhaps if WP7 takes off and commands a decent market share these companies will take notice. We've already seen previews of Sony Ericsson's 2.3 TimeScape skin and LG's 2.3 whatever-it's-called skin and they both appear to have abandoned Gingerbread's gradient-less notifications bar and title bar and replaced them with gradients. Too bad.
Also, what will Honeycomb bring? We've now seen previews of the tablet version, and I can see many 2.3 styling cues in 3.0. One thing I noticed though is that it uses blue as the 'accent color'. Gingerbread strongly reinforced orange as Android's accent color so I wonder why they would change this. What I'm hoping is that the accent color can be changed- it's certainly plausible, as the accent color seems to play a huge part in the Honeycomb previews I've seen. Or perhaps phones will remain orange and tablets will be blue? It seems like a strange differentiation.
Hints at UI change in the phone-version of Honeycomb include new text-entry fields (looks like the Android keyboard spacebar symbol but stretched), a new look and swiping interaction for tabs within apps (seen in the leaked Music 3.0 app, the 2.1 News and Weather app and the new YouTube app), and like I mentioned, color accents everywhere. Videos of Honeycomb show pop-ups, scroll bars, loading rings/bars and menus featuring the glowing blue accent.
What I'm wondering about is this 'UI overhaul' that everyone is talking about. Is it going to be mostly visual like the stuff I mentioned above or is it going to completely change the UI paradigms of Android? I think a huge change in UI akin to the WM6.5 > WP7 transition would alienate a lot of users and break a lot of apps. Therefore I'm thinking 3.0 is going to be a few tweaks to the interaction part of the UI, but a huge change to the visuals. I predict they will update almost all of the core apps to match the graphics we are seeing in 2.3 and 3.0, to finally put to rest those complaints that Android looks 'hacked together'. The changes in 2.3 were probably a catalyst, to get developers thinking in this new design language. Google needs a name for it, just like WP7 'Metro'. After all it's up to the developers to make apps that match this style.
I'm a Nexus fan and would never buy a phone without stock Android so maybe this is just me dreaming of an end to carrier/manufacturer skins, but what do you think?
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Just my two cents here but.... I don't get everyone saying android has no polish. I love my Nexus One, I love stock (vanilla) android. I think Touchwiz is an abomination and said as much when that thread came out to put touchwiz on the N1. Sense is pretty but too bloated in my opinion. Don't get me started on Motoblur... I agree earlier versions of android needed work. >2.2 {in my opinion} Personally I think android is fine. (iOS IS pretty, but so what it's also got an evil ecosystem...) The tweaks done to
2.3 are nice but unnecessary (IMHO). I love the way Android looks.... Oh, and I heartily agree with your statement that "UI styling should be about content...."
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If android could come up with a functional UI I might jump back aboard. Til they do WP7 is the only way to go.
Love the look of stock Android on my Nexus One. Love the new Gingerbread visual tweaks and look forward to the OTA.
HATE 3rd party U.I.
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If android could come up with a functional UI I might jump back aboard. Til they do WP7 is the only way to go.
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Android HAS a perfectly functional UI. Thank you.
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Babydoll25 said:
Android HAS a perfectly functional UI. Thank you.
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I used to think so too... now it just seems laggy regardless of launcher...
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I used to think so too... now it just seems laggy regardless of launcher...
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What lag? {unless ur using a SGS} I have never experienced this lag u speak of sir. My N1 flies I tell you, flies!!! (I have seen in Samsung's phones however...)
(That is why I don't buy them...)
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What lag? {unless ur using a SGS} I have never experienced this lag u speak of sir. My N1 flies I tell you, flies!!! (I have seen in Samsung's phones however...)
(That is why I don't buy them...)
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Didnt notice it on my Nexus one til I got WP7, now I just gave the nexus to my brother... just seems slow and jumbled by comparison
im glad the orange accents are gone in honeycomb, the blue looks way better, also im glad the green icons didnt made the cut, i really hope this look becomes the standard for both the tablet and the smartphone versions of the os
Android is ok but can be boring....
Personally I love the idea to have more than 1 OS on your device, so you can easily change whenever you want
With Matias Duarte on board we should see some drastic changes in the UI in the upcoming versions.
Look at the Honeycomb on tablets, we're now not required to have physical buttons, virtual controls are there, the switch tasking panel now actually shows us the current snapshot of the appss in the background - awesome idea from WebOS if you ask me.
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Didnt notice it on my Nexus one til I got WP7, now I just gave the nexus to my brother... just seems slow and jumbled by comparison
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I'm a phone addict and I try out almost every phone and OS that comes out. I still don't see what you are talking about, WP7 didn't feel any faster or more polished. It's got a new look and has some ooomph too it, but nothing that noticeable.
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Babydoll25 said:
I'm a phone addict and I try out almost every phone and OS that comes out. I still don't see what you are talking about, WP7 didn't feel any faster or more polished. It's got a new look and has some ooomph too it, but nothing that noticeable.
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As am I and I will still admit that the nexus one was the smoothest experience I recieved from an android phone. In all honesty I never thought I'd jump ship and I thought live tiles looked completely retarded. I didnt really think a GPU accelerated UI would mean anything but it did... its just smoother... virtually lag free and though I'm not trying to insult I dont see how you cant see the difference....
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As am I and I will still admit that the nexus one was the smoothest experience I recieved from an android phone. In all honesty I never thought I'd jump ship and I thought live tiles looked completely retarded. I didnt really think a GPU accelerated UI would mean anything but it did... its just smoother... virtually lag free and though I'm not trying to insult I dont see how you cant see the difference....
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I mean don't get me wrong, live tiles rock (and roll) but maybe it's just my N1 {and Sparky's but I set his up so...}, but I didn't see an overwhelming difference even with the hardware acceleration. I guess it all boils down to (after a certain point) how you have your individual phone configured... I have not yet seen anything worthy of N1 abandonment...t least not yet.
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I thought my N1 was smooth until I tried a Nexus S... now I can't go back.
The Gingerbread stock launcher is silky smooth. WP7 smooth. The scrolling and 3D app drawer is much smoother than LauncherPro or ADW Launcher. Live Wallpapers do not affect performance at all. The new UI elements make android look much more refined. The screen-off animation and the scrolling overshoot glow are amazing. And that's just the UI...
Long live stock Android and Nexus devices!
UI of Android
- The current browser UI is driving me crazy! Especially the back operation could jump to another app is un-acceptable.
- We need to have a mechanism for something like a pop up app. For example, when reading, a quick pop-up to look up a word or access wikipedia. It just need to : select, open with selection. Since Android let all apps open, the user just go back to the last app to continue
- I agree that data is important. The contact is the central of a phone. It can be mail, phone, sms, im, photo, calendar, ... The owner is of-cause need to be part of the contact. And there should be able to browse, jump, classify contacts quickly. I would like to suggest allow tags. An extendable contact db will be very nice.
- Moreover, for tabalet, there should be multi-users, switching profiles, encrypt data, etc. the lock screen should allow change of user
- Please consider the actual usage of a phone or tabalet together with other devices. Android should be part of a bigger system instead of a single computer. Cross interaction with desktop, other tabalets, is a must: ssh should be a standard on every device. There should be neighbour or friends nodes (not people, but devices) that can registers long term or short. There should be a easy way to find the new ip or connection method(bt) for the device. a bluetooth message send to allow register the device and provide a instant connection is good. Porting synergy allow share keyboard, (mouse) and clipboard is good, but need to address the situation where mouse is missing. Send screen shot is useful too. exchange pic, contacts, calendar events, ....
- Make index a ready service, update of index can be done when charging. It can be a mode call sleep, which will do house keeping like : update indexing, clean up space, calculate statistics, exchange data with cloud. The phone would work but will be slow. User can understand that the phone go sleep a while to keep healthy. The index is very valuable : provide fast browsing for things, faster search, and support a multi-dimension browsing experiende.
- clipboard : with multi-history
- Please check lePhone : use of gesture instead of soft key.
- Fast switch between opened apps
- notice : allow user to block call, sms, ... to interrupt. There can be a priority and the user can set the current lock level, priority lower the lock level would not sound, visual or virbaton
- I am not very sure about this : there should be scene : like meeting, driving, atHome, atOffice, etc. which can be auto-detect by various sensers. But too smart a phone can also be troublesome.
allow two phones to compare the app list, find common contacts, temporary play a game with connection (like NDS download play), peer chat (group of devices), share camera, audio, borrow book
current desktop background is not good. Make it easier for user to dress up their phone.
Claystone is a new 3D Android home screen replacement, media player, and launcher. We currently distributing developer preview betas to improve the product and get valuable feedback from the developer community. We are looking for feedback about the UI, stability, and overall functionality before we launch on Android Market.
What is unique about this home screen replacement is a 3D user interface with embedded viewers for video, photos, file browsing, web browser, YouTube, contacts, RSS news feeds, and more. The UI was designed for browsing content while you are viewing content.
Feature Summary
- Android 2.1 and higher home screen replacement
- Smart phone optimized
- 3D interface taking advantage of OpenGL
- Integrated media viewer apps for video, file browser, YouTube, web browser, photos, contacts, RSS reader, with more to come…
- Viewer apps bring functionality to the home screen and extending what you can do directly from your home screen in Android
- Claystone reduces the dependence on starting separate app for each media content type and our goal is to provide a more convenient and integrated experience
Widgets
- The Beta 3 widget experience will be replaced with a more standard widget implementation in Beta 4
Getting Started Tips
- Use the swipe left-right gesture to move through the stacked 3D panels
- The following items on the Home panel allow integrated viewing of content in the 3D interface: YouTube, Video, Photos, Contacts, File Browser, Web Browser, RSS Feeds
- Use the press-and-hold gesture throughout Claystone to access additional functions and options
Claystone is Now Available in Android Market
- Claystone is now available in Android Market
- Search for the keyword "Claystone"
Sounds sweet. I hope it won't force me to use popups for anything?
On my phone HTC HD2 (Android 2.3) will work?
Rosa Elefant said:
Sounds sweet. I hope it won't force me to use popups for anything?
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Claystone launches Android Apps full screen and the panels load in a 3D stack that you can scroll through using a left-right finger swipe.
Great, worth a try then thanks!
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On my phone HTC HD2 (Android 2.3) will work?
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Android 2.1 and higher are supported so Android 2.3 should pose no issues.
We have tested on HTC devices and the screen resolution is also ideal for claystone.
Let us know if you have any issues.
Doesn't display well on HVGA screen...LG P500
> Doesn't display well on HVGA screen...LG P500
We've been working on getting a bunch more devices to test on. Stay tuned!
Hi. On my Original Droid when a screen is enlarged, it is off to my left and never 100% visible. Also, it was very slow. This may be due to my phone being rooted, but I had to uninstall.
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Doesn't display well on HVGA screen...LG P500
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+1 I can confirm that. The dock icons are huge and the widgets misaligned.
Anyone tried this on a Droid X?
I'm gonna give it a try this evening. I think I tried the earlier beta a few days ago and it had issues as if the screen was off to the left etc. I attributed it to possibly a bad install or something.. I'll give beta 3 a go and report. Screenshot anomolies, etc.
Always a fan of new UI development.
Seems smoother, apps scoll much better-still not fluid yet. Widget screen is bigger. Will give overall in a little while. Limited widgets. Missing recent box-I liked that
On the right track though...
Love the concept of this launcher, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get portrait mode working. Using HD2 on 2.3.3 and it is always in landscape, and has no bottom bar.
Try it on the hd2 with cm7 and it work good I would make the 3d windows or what they are called a little bigger and maybe customizable options but other then that good work
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Added Widgets gone after a reboot to be never seen again. <-beta 2 retained these
Still sluggish
Would be nice to be able to resize/move panels
No picture/video bar across top on tablet
SD card (sd2) still not being seen only main storage
You tube still unstable, but better than beta 2
cannot see/launch launchbar
Keep up the good work-it's getting there
unfortunately, I still cannot use this as my daily launcher.
I think you will have more customers if you made a fully customizable one of these...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13070948
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=907551
On my phone, the window isn't centered, its too far right and down.
Also the dock is huge.
Nevertheless, this is a fresh idea and I see some potential.
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It looks nice maybe i will try this on my sgs
Looks a bit like the palm os with the cards. Works fine at all, but it would be nice if the stacks were a little bigger. Maybe it would be possible that the cards go fullscreen when they get focus, and with the homebutton you can make them smaller to see them like its now in standard view.
But thats just a little idea.
Glad to see where this is going.
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Beta 3
Still off to the left somewhat but better centered. Complicated to figure out. Videos are small and do not play in landscape and it's difficult to tell which windows are open esp difference between home, app..............Editing launcher bar is nice. Is there a settings (not the one for the phone or info for contact available via the app?
My last Windows mobile device was an Imagio and weather panel interface was perfect! I know there are a lot of interfaces that are are close.
a widget like this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=401781
Or this would be better as the screen resoloution is closer to my new Bionic(just upgraded from the incredible, if you want to call it that).
the source of the weather information is not that important to me as long as i tit is accurate.
I miss everything about weatherpanel
miss:
the graphs hourly with combined temp precip , wind daily 10 day night day ect
configurable radar or cam purge and frequencies
and the interface
Or this would be better as the screen resoloution is closer to my new Bionic(just upgraded from the incredible, if you want to call it that).
This would be perfect!!!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=707229
Why is is so hard?
2 1/2 years and nothing close. I now have 9 weather apps on my phone and like 1 thing from each of them.
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We heard it would be flat. We heard it would be
black and white. We heard that it would be a
totally different experience.
It is. iOS 7, the latest version of Apple’s
flagship mobile operating system, is here, and
it’s almost entirely different from the versions
that came before. Gone are the skeuomorphic
designs and 3D effects, replaced by Sir Jony
Ive’s “flat design.” Rumors had been flying for
weeks about the new OS and now it’s here and
it is, at least at this early reckoning, a massive
change for the six year old operating system.
First, we must remember that Ive, Apple’s
industrial designer now in control of software
following the departure of Scott Forstall, isn’t a
believer in interfaces that copy real-world
objects. In the past, making the Notes app look
like a legal pad or the calendar app look like a
Moleskine calendar notebook were part of the
iOS design philosophy, as ingrained in the OS
as “Slide To Unlock.” All that is gone now.
Are you ready for a whole new world?
New Look:
iOS 7 has a new font leading the way, which
seems to be a sort of Helvetica Neue Ultra. It’s
very skinny, clean, and it was hinted at in the
iOS 7 banners that went up for WWDC
yesterday.
Instead of white bars on a black background,
Apple will now tell you what kind of service
coverage you have with five little dots, which
are white and grey depending on how strong
the signal is across a translucent background.
The lock screen is changed for the first time in
iOS’s history, with no more shine top or bottom
bars for slide to unlock or the clock. Instead,
Slide to unlock is translucent above the
background image.
Default app icons are now flatter, but not quite
flat, just as predicted.
Jony Ive’s hand has had its way with iOS
notifications. The notifications panel isn’t laced
with dark grey linen anymore, but actually has
a very flat look to it. There is a today view, that
lets you see friends birthdays, upcoming
invitations, calendar, stocks, and a quick look
at tomorrow.
The apps all seem to have a white base, except
for the stocks app which has a black
background and the weather app, which shows
motion in the background to convey the current
weather.
The keyboard is more white, than grey, with a
translucency that lets you see what’s
underneath the keyboard.
New Features
Control Center
Control Center is a pull-up tray that is available
in your lock screen.
You can adjust brightness, volume, and other
settings including Wifi, Airplane mode, rotation
lock, or Bluetooth.
The Control Center even offers a flashlight,
along with tabs for music, camera, and other
quick-access apps.
The Control Center takes on the environment
it’s in, so if you swipe up while you’re in mail, it
will have the same blue and white coloring
under that translucent panel.
Multitasking
iOS 7 lets you multitask between all third-party
apps with much better battery consumption.
You can double-tap the home button to enter
into multi-tasking mode, just like always, but
the interface for multitasking has been
revamped. It appears to offer live previews, but
Apple wasn’t clear about that.
Safari
Safari opens straight into full screen mode now,
with the option to pull down to bring up the
search bar at the top.
The search field has been improved to be a
unified smart search field, which lets you have
access to all your favorite websites with a
single tap.
Tabs come with a totally new interface,
scrolling in a vertical carousel, and there are no
longer any limits. In other words, you can have
as many tabs as you want, as opposed to just
8 like before. Swipe a tab off to the side to
throw it away.
The new Safari is integrated with iCloud
keychain from OS X Mavericks, and also comes
with parental controls.
AirDrop
You can share sharesheets with other people by
simply tapping their name. No NFC required.
Airdrop supports iPhone 5, iPad 4th gen, iPad
Mini
Camera And Photos
The Camera app lets you swipe between your
various camera types, such as panorama or
HDR so you can quickly take a pic instead of
fumbling around with settings.
Photos marks the first update to the photo
gallery on iOS since it was introduced.
You can search based on date, and location,
within the photos app.
Instagram must be flattered — Apple has
introduced photo filters so you can add a little
professionalism to the picture.
Users can share via AirDrop, iCloud photo-
sharing, as well as shared Photo Streams.
You can even share video with iCloud photo-
sharing.
Siri:
Siri has a new voice! It sounds similar, but also
weird. You can choose a male or female voice,
if you like. Voices include languages like
French, German, and other languages “over
time.”
The visual UI has also been upgraded, with a
sound wave going along the bottom.
Siri has also been integrated with settings,
letting you tell her to turn on bluetooth, or
lower the screen brightness.
The company has also added support for
Twitter, Wikipedia, and shows web search
results direct from Bing.
iOS in the Car
iOS in the Car depends a lot on Siri.
It puts the iOS homescreen on the screen of
your car, and lets you search for directions,
listen to music, etc.
App Store
You can now search for apps based on
location. In other words, search for apps by the
Louvre and see a lot of French museum apps.
The App Store also automatically updates apps
for you in the background now. Hallelujah
again!
iTunes Radio:
Apple has finally introduced the much-
anticipated iTunes Radio, which gives a Genius-
like experience to the entire 26-million title
iTunes catalog.
You can see the full list of songs on each
station by clicking history, with purchase and
preview buttons built right in to send you to the
iTunes store.
iTunes Radio also lets you customize each
station by clicking a star to show that you want
more of this type of music.
iTunes Match users will get an ad-free
experience, but others will be able to use the
app for free with a few audio and text ads.
Activation Lock:
This is for those of us who have had an iPhone
stolen.
If a thief steals your phone and tries to turn off
Find My iPhone, they can no longer turn the
device back on without your iCloud password.
Users can also block messages and calls from
other users.
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I tell you what I think:
lol.
Thread closed: this discussion should be held on a more Apple friendly website....