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Well said?
mescalineeyes
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is this some low-brow pun I am not getting?
If anyone is interested, the chaps over at XDA have ported a mostly working version of Google Now to ICS. Voice searching doesn't work (yet), however, which eliminates a lot of the appeal. And your phone has to be rooted.
Google Now for ICS
Google Now for ICS
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
It doesn't matter, everyone around you will. Assuming you have real people around you at any given time.
Unknown Soldier
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Don't be difficult, bratwurst. This stop-gap may last a lifetime but you'll soon learn to embrace it.
It's difficult to be impressed by something which just functions like you would expect. I know, stuff just working is boring as shit. Having 10 apps to choose from for everything is boring as shit. I'm sure it was much easier when at best you had one app, which might suck, but you didn't have a choice so you lived with it anyways. True multitasking is boring as shit too, I mean seriously? The phone actually manages itself and you just use apps when you feel like it and they are always there at all times when you need them? What a bunch of crap. I'm sure being able to pin widgets to your home screens isn't impressive at all coming from Live Tiles, I mean, the widgets all look different, you can put as many as you want on there, they can be resized and customized? That's not impressive at all.
Manmademan
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not necessarily. the amount of people (especially businesses) i know that completely skipped vista and just stuck with XP because it was "good enough" is just mindblowing.
some of them are STILL running it. As good as windows 7 is, and strange as the "metro" interface seems to be from every other OS i can see a lot of people just skipping it entirely
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A lot of companies aren't running IE9 for the same reason. Completely removing the menu bar is an impossible thing to fathom for large companies unless they want to spend a lot of money re-training everybody to learn how to use a UI without one, and this is much harder than you might believe as someone who posts on GAF.
mescalineeyes
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Windows 8 will have an adoption rate closer to vista than to Windows 7.
I'm involved in these kinds of rollout for Disney's corporate employees. We are only just now starting to push 7 due to legacy software compatibility concerns and issues with ie8 and some web apps.
Manmademan
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i might even go lower. desktops and laptops arent being replaced anywhere near as often as they were 10 years ago, and smartphones and tablets running ios and android have eaten into a lot of that marketshare Microsoft had with the casual market.
Unknown Soldier
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MS will backtrack on force-feeding Metro to desktop users who don't want it in Windows 9. People will probably actually want Win9. Quite frankly if I were MS I would be looking at patching the Win7 desktop back into Win8 right about now. When you are offering upgrades to everybody for $40 and nobody wants it even at that price, whereas MS received record pre-orders for that $99 Win7 upgrade, that's a sign your corporate agenda of cramming Metro down our collective throats is being resisted and you should stop.
My organization actually only upgraded to Win7 late last year. That's Win7 and IE8, mind you. I doubt we'll move to IE9+ anytime soon as we also have specific software which is only qualified on IE8 and some of these applications are supplied by third-party vendors so we'll be allowed to upgrade when they see fit to support something newer than IE8.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Even if I accept that as fact, its still pretty high numbers, combined with wp8 and Xbox, you're still going to have a whole lot of metro around you next year.
There is nothing in history to support this. The number of people who stuck with Win95, Win98 WinXP all say otherwise. Theres a very good chance it will happen again with 7. We will just have to see.
If you combine it with fewer and fewer PC sales all around, it might not be so evident.
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Transformer update...I see nothing new. =(
Metalmurphy
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Got it to work but it flips my device to portrait mode as soon as i click the search bar. :/
Performance and various fixes according to xda.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Nice starting point! I'm liking it. Keep us updated. If you can make a Tweet bot level app for Android, you'll be in a really good position.[]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/30713197/mesca_twitter_app.jpg[/IMG]
Click here to embiggen
What do you guys think so far?
mescalineeyes
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Hell yeah bro that's the plan!
Thanks!
ghostofsparta
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What's a good book to get for a beginner app development? I am familiar with Java but haven't done anything with Android.
4.0+ preferably.
4.0+ preferably.
So it turns out the Q can run apps like Netflix, Pandora, and assumingly DLNA server/streamers.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1740150
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1740150
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
No surprises there. It's still extremely expensive.
Dont justify this thing. It shouldnt cost that much even if it run every streaming service in the world and hand assemble in Italy.
Its a developer beta platform, thats what it is. And no dont try to talk anybody or yourself into buying it.
It's basically an hdmi cable.
mescalineeyes
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So one last little update about the progress on my Twitter app I am working on. From now on I will spare you until I have the app fully designed.
Here's the regular view for tweets.
Here's the picture expanded.
Here are the tweet options when you tap on a tweet.
I think now you can get a good picture of where I am going with this. It's going to be more of a content-consumption app and not something power-users who handle multiple (corporate) twitter clients will care for.
If you guys have any questions or suggestions let me know
(or just general encouragement and compliments are always welcome, too, of course)
Here's the regular view for tweets.
Here's the picture expanded.
Here are the tweet options when you tap on a tweet.
I think now you can get a good picture of where I am going with this. It's going to be more of a content-consumption app and not something power-users who handle multiple (corporate) twitter clients will care for.
If you guys have any questions or suggestions let me know
(or just general encouragement and compliments are always welcome, too, of course
)All the customization options are so tempting to me. What main differences am I looking at if I go with an Android smartphone from my iPhone? Say I go with the top of the line phone atm (Galaxy S3?) will I be fine for at least 2-3 years as far as app support and OS updates? I ask because with iOS I don't have to worry about these things.
So one last little update about the progress on my Twitter app I am working on. From now on I will spare you until I have the app fully designed.
Here's the regular view for tweets.
Here's the picture expanded.
Here are the tweet options when you tap on a tweet.
I think now you can get a good picture of where I am going with this. It's going to be more of a content-consumption app and not something power-users who handle multiple (corporate) twitter clients will care for.
If you guys have any questions or suggestions let me know
(or just general encouragement and compliments are always welcome, too, of course
Looks great, man! Only thing, not sure how I like the look of the "13" or the pyramid shape. They kind of look out of place, but that could just be a matter of getting used to. Still, though, looks fantastic overall. Are you thinking about having an option for a light holo theme as well?
So one last little update about the progress on my Twitter app I am working on. From now on I will spare you until I have the app fully designed.
Here's the regular view for tweets.
Here's the picture expanded.
Here are the tweet options when you tap on a tweet.
I think now you can get a good picture of where I am going with this. It's going to be more of a content-consumption app and not something power-users who handle multiple (corporate) twitter clients will care for.
If you guys have any questions or suggestions let me know
(or just general encouragement and compliments are always welcome, too, of course
Looks awesome.
Looks great.
Mad much? Goddamn son, calm down.
ThatObviousUser
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So one last little update about the progress on my Twitter app I am working on. From now on I will spare you until I have the app fully designed.
Here's the regular view for tweets.
Here's the picture expanded.
Here are the tweet options when you tap on a tweet.
I think now you can get a good picture of where I am going with this. It's going to be more of a content-consumption app and not something power-users who handle multiple (corporate) twitter clients will care for.
If you guys have any questions or suggestions let me know
(or just general encouragement and compliments are always welcome, too, of course
Eww. That's not Holo.
As long as you get a Nexus device directly from Google, you will receive OS updates as soon as they become available. If you get any other phone, including the S3, it becomes a crap shoot. As far as apps go, I'm pretty sure most apps work on every phone, unless you have a really outdated device.
I'd say your best bet, if you are mostly worried about staying current with the latest Android build, is to get the Galaxy Nexus. (Once Google starts selling it again that is.)
I'm sure he doesn't mind criticism, but at least be constructive.
As long as you get the popular models you should easily find custom rom that bring you up to date 3 years down the road.
This is especially important when you are getting a CDMA version.
Compare HTC to Samsung, I cant say which brand has easier to unlock phones/bootloaders. I only advise against Sony, some of the models have impossible to unluck bootloader and there is no way to flash custom rom. I am still very bitter about my experience with Xperia Play.
ThatObviousUser
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Alright.
The gradient on every entry is a bit tacky and distracting.
The triangle is not a standard icon and there's no way to tell what it does without using it.
The clock tab and "13" are not delineated logically. There's no UX reason why they should be right next to eachother, and should be more separated.
Poor separation between posts making it hard to scan.
The magnifying glass icon should only be used for search. This is another obvious area where it's not following proper Android/Holo design guidelines. Magnifying glass means search, don't mess with that.
Off the top of my head.
You'll likely be fine for updates for 2 years. Not 3 though. Around that third year you could find your device quite a bit outdated, there would be rom support that could get you running the latest versions, but the manufacturers dont normally support it that long. The dated hardware tends to hinder the new stuff by that 3 year mark.
You'll be fine for two years though. Just know that if you dont by a Nexus device, you will get your updates every September and March or so, instead of every July and December. The updates will come, but they will be behind the official Nexus releases. That bothers some people, and others don't mind it at all. Choose your phone based on how you will feel about that.
So one last little update about the progress on my Twitter app I am working on. From now on I will spare you until I have the app fully designed.
Here's the regular view for tweets.
Here's the picture expanded.
Here are the tweet options when you tap on a tweet.
I think now you can get a good picture of where I am going with this. It's going to be more of a content-consumption app and not something power-users who handle multiple (corporate) twitter clients will care for.
If you guys have any questions or suggestions let me know
(or just general encouragement and compliments are always welcome, too, of course
Everything looks great so far, but I would definitely prefer a more traditional holo themed action bar at the top. Just looking at this image, I'm not really sure what anything at the top does.
Everything below that looks ace though. Maybe minimize the gradients on each tweet.
Great job so far.
Since we're offering constructive criticism to mescalineeyes, I would say that using dark grey text against a black background probably isn't ideal. It is a little hard to read.
That being said, I love the initiative, man. You didn't like any of the current Twitter apps so you decided to create your own. That's awesome.
I want to learn how to write apps. For someone with a good command of basic web coding (HTML/CSS/JavaScript/jQuery), how hard is it to transition into coding Android or iOS apps?
That being said, I love the initiative, man. You didn't like any of the current Twitter apps so you decided to create your own. That's awesome.
I want to learn how to write apps. For someone with a good command of basic web coding (HTML/CSS/JavaScript/jQuery), how hard is it to transition into coding Android or iOS apps?
ThatObviousUser
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Fairly hard... XML is a lot harder and more rigid than HTML/CSS, and the bindings to Java aren't as good as the DOM (can't believe I'd ever praise the DOM...) Java is similarly more rigid than JavaScript, not just for static typing but also constructors, inheritance, etc. The static keyword is also my #1 enemy since starting to make my app a week ago (I come from a web background as well.)
That said, it is nice having a lot of the basic building blocks right there to pick and mix from.
Try PhoneGap.
Motorola Atrix HD official.
http://www.motorola.com/us/consumer...B886-ATRIX-HD,en_US,pd.html?selectedTab=tab-1
http://www.motorola.com/us/consumer...B886-ATRIX-HD,en_US,pd.html?selectedTab=tab-1
ThatObviousUser
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http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/4/3138165/motorola-atrix-hd-att-4-5-inch-720p-screen-kevlar-backing
Looks nice. Finally all-software buttons on a skinned set. Samsung could learn a thing or two.
Looks nice. Finally all-software buttons on a skinned set. Samsung could learn a thing or two.
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