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1. It's not less relevant. I hate using a lot of the apps on my N7 because they are obviously phone apps stretched out—and there's no thought to the tablet inte

1. It's not less relevant. I hate using a lot of the apps on my N7 because they are obviously phone apps stretched out—and there's no thought to the tablet interface. The only ones that are even remotely good (and barely, at that) are those that tend to replicate an iOS interface in Android. (And the gmail app on the N7 is complete crap. I can't read half of the emails that I get because its view pane is too small regardless of the orientation.) 2. There are, supposedly, a few thousand large tablet apps. I've been using the N7 since it was made available in Canada and have yet to see a good app that takes advantage of the N7's size advantage over phones, but recognizes the smaller area than larger tablets. The iPad mini will handle this much better. Your edit, BTW, is nonsense—you have always been able to make a Universal app for iOS. The layouts remain separate, but this is where Android gets it completely wrong: app makers should be taking advantage of the sizes available and stop pretending that automatic layout actually works (we learned that it doesn't with Swing; why the hell are Android developers having to learn it all over again?).

w1ntermute 14y ago
> The layouts remain separate, but this is where Android gets it completely wrong: app makers should be taking advantage of the sizes available and stop pretending that automatic layout actually works You've completely misunderstood my point. I'm not referring to the ability of Android apps to resize themselves. I'm referring to the ability to easily rearchitect the frontend of Android 3.0+ apps by using Fragments[0]. 0: http://developer.android.com/guide/components/fragments.html http://developer.android.com/guide/components/fragments.html
- halostatue 14y ago
  No, I haven't missed your point—I'm telling you that I haven't seen a single app that does this (I might have one or two, but I can't really tell because they're essentially all crappy looking on my N7). If you can point to some, I'd appreciate it, because I am deeply unimpressed by Android apps in general, at least in the context of the N7. There are a few that are better than others (TweetLanes is one), but not enough to keep me using the device as anything other than 100% video and data consumption.

w1ntermute 14y ago

> The layouts remain separate, but this is where Android gets it completely wrong: app makers should be taking advantage of the sizes available and stop pretending that automatic layout actually works You've completely misunderstood my point. I'm not referring to the ability of Android apps to resize themselves. I'm referring to the ability to easily rearchitect the frontend of Android 3.0+ apps by using Fragments[0]. 0: http://developer.android.com/guide/components/fragments.html http://developer.android.com/guide/components/fragments.html

halostatue 14y ago
No, I haven't missed your point—I'm telling you that I haven't seen a single app that does this (I might have one or two, but I can't really tell because they're essentially all crappy looking on my N7). If you can point to some, I'd appreciate it, because I am deeply unimpressed by Android apps in general, at least in the context of the N7. There are a few that are better than others (TweetLanes is one), but not enough to keep me using the device as anything other than 100% video and data consumption.