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What do iOS users think about the design of the app? I'm asking because from screenshots and a video, it looks the design is a close copy from the Android app.

What do iOS users think about the design of the app? I'm asking because from screenshots and a video, it looks the design is a close copy from the Android app. How do users accept common patterns like Actionbar or Slideout Menu on an iPhone?

ConstantineXVI 14y ago
The slide-out menu pattern showed up on both platforms mostly simultaneously (think Facebook may have been an early adopter). Also, it doesn't seem to follow the action bar pattern any more than other iOS apps do. Back and search buttons in the title bar has been an iOS convention since the dawn of the OS. Visually, it is adopting a similar "flat" design to Holo (as has Google+ on iOS), not sure how I feel about that but I'm not a primary user of iOS so my opinion is mainly moot there.
geon 14y ago
I think YouTube borrowed the menu-behind-the-content-when-it-slides-to-the-right from Facebook. Anyway, that's where I first saw it. Design-wise, it looks pretty much like the new mobile website.
- christensen_emc 14y ago
  The menu behind the content UI Pattern is actually one of the suggested UI patterns in the official Android style guide.
  - Zev 14y ago
    Do you know when this UI pattern was added to the style guide? Because, FWIW, webOS had something similar with sliding, over a year ago, in their Maps app.
  - geon 14y ago
    Ah. Found it (they call it "drawers"). http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/actionbar.html http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/actionbar.html
blindhippo 14y ago
"Icon is no good" 1 Star review. Man do I hate people who review IOS apps in the store. Personally my initial impression is positive. The slideout menu imitates similar patterns I've seen on the iPad and seems to work well on my phone. Not entirely sold on modals (login is in a popup) - but I have a hate on for modals in general.
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tvon 14y ago
It looks very iOS6, actually. Not that I'm saying it doesn't look like the Android app (I don't have my N7 handy to check), but the Apple iOS6 apps have mostly moved to a gray/slate look very similar to this.

ConstantineXVI 14y ago

The slide-out menu pattern showed up on both platforms mostly simultaneously (think Facebook may have been an early adopter). Also, it doesn't seem to follow the action bar pattern any more than other iOS apps do. Back and search buttons in the title bar has been an iOS convention since the dawn of the OS. Visually, it is adopting a similar "flat" design to Holo (as has Google+ on iOS), not sure how I feel about that but I'm not a primary user of iOS so my opinion is mainly moot there.

geon 14y ago

I think YouTube borrowed the menu-behind-the-content-when-it-slides-to-the-right from Facebook. Anyway, that's where I first saw it. Design-wise, it looks pretty much like the new mobile website.

christensen_emc 14y ago
The menu behind the content UI Pattern is actually one of the suggested UI patterns in the official Android style guide.
- Zev 14y ago
  Do you know when this UI pattern was added to the style guide? Because, FWIW, webOS had something similar with sliding, over a year ago, in their Maps app.
- geon 14y ago
  Ah. Found it (they call it "drawers"). http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/actionbar.html http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/actionbar.html

blindhippo 14y ago

"Icon is no good" 1 Star review. Man do I hate people who review IOS apps in the store. Personally my initial impression is positive. The slideout menu imitates similar patterns I've seen on the iPad and seems to work well on my phone. Not entirely sold on modals (login is in a popup) - but I have a hate on for modals in general.

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tvon 14y ago

It looks very iOS6, actually. Not that I'm saying it doesn't look like the Android app (I don't have my N7 handy to check), but the Apple iOS6 apps have mostly moved to a gray/slate look very similar to this.