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It's another bit of the UI that has been shoved into being "flat", but the metaphor is just lost. If you hadn't seen the iOS6 one it makes absolutely no sense n
by nwh 13y ago
It's another bit of the UI that has been shoved into being "flat", but the metaphor is just lost. If you hadn't seen the iOS6 one it makes absolutely no sense now. For more of this, see the Clock app with it's ridiculous circle buttons and half a blank screen.
- joe5150 13y agoI'm not sure I follow your criticism of the clock app. It looks the same to me, albeit "flatter".
- nwh 13y agoI was referring to this, it looks a lot worse on devices with a longer screen — http://i.imgur.com/8kjaGQ6.png http://i.imgur.com/8kjaGQ6.png
- joe5150 13y agoI guess it just doesn't look that bad to me. The buttons particularly seem fine, but you could reasonably say that they stand apart from the rest of the UI in some way. That the timer is still using a picker like this at all instead of a more reasonable input is my only real gripe, but that's sort of beyond the scope of this.
- buro9 13y agoI shouldn't worry, you should try Android's time picker. Consider a generation not used to the analogue wrist-watch, and give them a clock face with an outer 24-hour clock and an inner 12 hour clock, and then ask the user to select time using the tip of their finger, on a small phone screen, on the inner or outer circle to the hour and minute that they wish. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SK2ljlhHiCU/UaiEjF1lhGI/AAAAAAABJqs/0uWv7oMxdG4/s640/android-calendar-time-control-1.png http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SK2ljlhHiCU/UaiEjF1lhGI/AAAAAAABJq... Oh, and that top bit... the time that most people would read and want to change? Yeah, that's just display. Tapping that does nothing useful, just flips the mode from hours to minutes but you can't change the time that way. So: A modal interface, on a circular control, with small areas of touch, that you cannot navigate one-handed accurately, and that uses the least popular display of time.
- CrazedGeek 13y agoWhere are you seeing that UI? At least on Android 4.1, the normal time picker is similar to the iOS ones.
- the_mitsuhiko 13y agoNew in 4.3. I actually love that picker a lot. It's efficient when you use it with one hand it it's not nearly as confusing as the alarm clock one which would break down completely if you would have to target a specific date.
- cheald 13y agoWhich picker/app is that? Here's the time picker in the Clock app (for setting alarms) on 4.3 (CM 10.2): http://i.imgur.com/KhhHul5.png http://i.imgur.com/KhhHul5.png
- turing 13y agoIt's the time picker in the Calendar app. It was introduced in May: http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/29/google-calendar-for-android-update/ http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/29/google-calendar-for-andro... Personally, I rather like the new time picker and have never experienced any usability problems. Also, the appearance depends on your time settings; the inner circle the parent poster mentions only appears if you use 24-hour time.
- buro9 13y agoYou know, it's the only time picker I see in Android. Such is my heavy use of Google Calendar.
- masklinn 13y ago> the inner circle the parent poster mentions only appears if you use 24-hour time. Which is only the vast majority of the world (about half a dozen countries use 12h clocks as a standard in written form). (as it turns out, that means the vast majority of the world won't give a fig about the AM/PM selector being broken, the touch targets are a much bigger issue)