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A video of Honeycomb's new "Holographic" UI: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPUGNCIozp0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPUGNCIozp0 Not sure yet how well that t
by jjcm 16y ago
A video of Honeycomb's new "Holographic" UI: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPUGNCIozp0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPUGNCIozp0
Not sure yet how well that theme will go over. When the Sense UI came out it was certainly more flashy and pretty than the stock UI, but at a major cost to battery life. Hopefully holographic has mitigated some of this.
It'll be interesting to see their UI builder in action once they finalize it. One of the larger gripes I've heard from iOS developers turned android is the lack of decent/fast UI construction tools.
- tedreed 16y agoI've used my current phone with both SenseUI and without, and did not notice any difference in battery life, FWIW.
- ugh 16y agoI’m worried about the proliferation of so many different themes. There was never an Android device I picked up and felt immediately familiar with and Google now seems to encourage this by making Honeycomb again look entirely different. I don’t really understand that. Couldn’t they just dial up the visual attractiveness without going so far away from how Android looks on Phones? The behavior is probably (mostly?) unchanged which is good but crass visual changes can be disorienting. (I’m also personally not a fan of the aesthetics but the iPad’s frequent kitschyness is in my eyes in a different way but equally ugly.)
- argarg 16y agoI don't know if you ever used an Android phone, but I've always preferred the stock UI by far compared to SenseUI, and as another replier mentioned, I don't think there is a noticeable battery life difference between the two.