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I think every point is overstated. - Most high end apps already have custom views, they're not relying on standard UIKit elements: Evernote, Tweetbot, Fantasti
by pdenya 13y ago
I think every point is overstated.
- Most high end apps already have custom views, they're not relying on standard UIKit elements: Evernote, Tweetbot, Fantastical, Spotify, Audible, Alien Blue, etc.
- Web apps can skimp a bit on the transitions without feeling useless and out of place and they won't have any trouble reskinning. Especially for the standard blog template he mentions.
- As far as the 1 pixel lines, maybe it's a stylistic element that android can't copy easily but I don't see this as a huge advantage
- rimantas 13y agoYour first point is correct, however most of the custom views look very different from iOS 7 style and will look alien. Only few apps more or less match, on my phone that's Yahoo Weather, Twitterific, Vesper.
- pdenya 13y agoI'm running iOS7 on my carry phone and all the apps I listed I use day to day and they look fine to me with the rest of the OS. Being styled the same as my home screen is not a strict requirement for me as long as they look good internally.
- Groxx 13y agoI'm not sure where the 1px-difficulty comes from. You can easily make e.g. a separator in a list that's 1px: <View android:layout_height="1px" /> If anything, I'd argue it's easier than in iOS. And then there's this: >Most Android phones have high-DPI screens, too, but their feature-checklist battles have actually driven many of them to have too-dense resolutions for 1-pixel lines to be useful. Seriously, what? They're not that much higher-DPI than the retina screens.
- smackfu 13y agoI think the theory here is that screens with non-square pixel layouts can't really do one pixel lines in either vertical or horizontal. Practically, I'm not sure that is a real issue with current high end phones.