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While interfaces should not be the same across devices, being able to dock you phone and continue using its applications on normal monitor of your desktop, with
by avodonosov 10y ago
While interfaces should not be the same across devices, being able to dock you phone and continue using its applications on normal monitor of your desktop, with keyboard and mouse would be convenient.
I mean when you walk it's a phone, when you at the desk, the same device is connected to monitor, keyboard and mouse.
- flukus 10y agoBut then each application is essentially 2 applications in one.
- yorwba 10y agoIt's the same application, but with 2 different interfaces. Of course, a UI toolkit that can do "write once, interact in any way" would be helpful for the implementation.
- flukus 10y agoWhich is essentially two applications as I said. The only difference is that they may share some state, but there are other ways to handle that too.
- Shorel 10y agoJust like any responsive website is.
- flukus 10y agoSo it's easy with what is essentially a document viewer, it's much harder when it comes to real apps, the desktop interface is dumbed down for the limitations of a phone.
- avodonosov 10y agoWhat I mean is that "convergence" benefit is not same UI on different devices out of pure whim, but the ability to use the same application from phone directly or using desktop monitor mouse and keyboard. I don't mean the interfaces should actually be different. Just that "the same interface" is not the motivation by itself. Unified interface would be good for that. If the interfaces are actually different, the app could be adopted automatically by its UI framework, or by "window manager", etc.