I feel the same way. They gave it a new name....it is obviously going to be a significant update with many changes....otherwise they would have left it JB.
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I feel the same way. They gave it a new name....it is obviously going to be a significant update with many changes....otherwise they would have left it JB.
Elements of iOS 7 actually remind me heavily of the bright pastel colours popular in the 80s:
(Drive is 80s inspired, not authentically 80s.
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I don't see it.
I honestly see both Android and iOS 7 far more futuristic and modern looking than I do retro.
Just me, I guess.
Google have toned down things "Tron" wise quite a bit since honeycomb.
The new stuff Google have been pumping out app wise are some of the best yet IMO.
It's been good to see how much better they've gotten at app design.
The new stuff Google have been pumping out app wise are some of the best yet IMO.
It's been good to see how much better they've gotten at app design.
Another Google app updates to the Card look: http://www.androidcentral.com/googl...interface-elements-adds-settings-and-features
Sweet. More, more!!
Now if they could just come up with some kind of design guidelines for Android icons as well.
Here’s a list of some of the things that are apparently coming to Google’s new OS version:
-Firmware availability to older phones
-Fragmentation changes (screen resizing)
-Miracast updates
-New Gallery Visualisation
-New APIs regarding animations
-Change android default blue to other preset palette colours
-New notification widgets
That should be interesting.
-Firmware availability to older phones
-Fragmentation changes (screen resizing)
-Miracast updates
-New Gallery Visualisation
-New APIs regarding animations
-Change android default blue to other preset palette colours
-New notification widgets
That should be interesting.
http://9to5google.com/2013/09/17/ne...-u-s-email-address-adds-loyalty-cards-offers/
This is nice and all, but when the hell can you buy apps for other people as gifts in the Play Store?
There's money to be made, Google.
This is nice and all, but when the hell can you buy apps for other people as gifts in the Play Store?
There's money to be made, Google.
If we're still stuck in that black+any color theme then I don't really get the point. The problem right now is the the black, not the blue.
Yeah I think so too. After the whole Hangouts thing, I started thinking that too. It sucks that he got banned though, I would have loved to hear what other information he had. That's just my selfish reasons though lol.
I miss his charming Thurston Howell lll personality ("No one can pull the wool over my eyes. Cashmere maybe, but wool, never.") --- always good for a giggle.
The colour palette's a retro throwback, other than that, iOS 7 is pretty modern looking. The colours used for the iPhone 5C and its cases are quite retro too, they remind me heavily of the clashing colours you'd see on 80s wetsuits.
Apple has said it's a retro throwback? Just curious cause I'm still not seeing it. All I feel I'm seeing is some colors that match. Those colors exist today.
No, they haven't. I'm just pointing out that they're using colour combinations and colours that were common in the 80s. Of course those colours still exist today.
They will be on L's for the next round of names. I think KLP was an early name but never official.
Where did you hear that?
And what does firmware availability to older phones mean exactly? That starting with 4.4 phones that come with it will be updated from Google regardless of manufacturers or something like that?
I also don't understand the fragmentation changes regarding screen sizes. What does it mean exactly too?
I don't see Google addressing fragmentation issues anytime soon frankly.
Firstly, (not necessarily directed at you, Sensamic) I think fragmentation is an overblown talking point that ultimately doesn't affect the end user as dramatically as Apple and others would want you to believe. Secondly, there are Nexus and GPE options available for people who do care about fragmentation and updates.
But here: "Addressing Android's fragmentation seen as first job for Google's Pichai"
http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...tion_seen_as_first_job_for_Google_39_s_Pichai
And I don't remember off the top of my head, but didn't Google introduce a few things with API's and whatever that came with the 4.3 update that starts to help developers with fragmentation? I'm not a developer myself so I wasn't paying too much attention to this part of their presentation, but my understanding is they're already beginning to help address fragmentation on the software/developer level.