Re: Custom Android launchers
dmccunney <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:37:34 -0400
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On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Markley Jr, John <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Dennis. Raphael's blog is generally quite useful. I've been using the launcher he discusses, Nova, for quite a while and am highly pleased for many of the reasons he discusses. You're welcome. Smartphones, whether running Android or something else, have subsumed PDAs for the sort of tasks PDAs did. While the hardware, OS, and precise capabilities of the devices may differ, form factor remains a common concern. You have a small device with limited screen real estate and controlling buttons. What sort of UI can best expose what the device can do, in a form easiest for the user to deal with? We were already seeing future change before Palm devices became largely irrelevant - the Treo added an additional wrinkle to the issue, because people wanted to be able to use the device with one hand. A stylus was a deal breaker for many operations. (My TX with 5 way navigation pad can be used one handed to some extent, but a stylus is still required for various operations.) UI looked at a variety of launchers for Palm devices, and I'm curious about the state of the art in Android devices, so I was fascinated by Raphael's remarks. Mozilla's mobile browser began as research into the best way to use a small screen for browsing, and how to handle the controls. I expect to see more developments on this line as time goes on. > ~ John ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------ Latest pedit/pToolSet/LapTopHack at http://www.osuweb.net/~pc/pca/pc_all.zip pedit/pToolSet/LapTopHack scripting info/resources at http://www.peditors.com Peditors Forum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/peditors Unsubscribe by writing to peditors-unsubscribe-hHKSG33Tihh4sT85+ipIM4ckdKdSAMto@public.gmane.org! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/peditors/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/peditors/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/