Twitter for Android is an excellent app, but the lastest update shows how a lot of iOS UI patterns are bleeding over to Android apps, potentially confusing things.
To note a couple: 1. Pull down ListView (beyond top) to refresh. 2. Swipe finger across a ListView row to bring up actions/edit. First of all, iOS has some extremely well thought at and sensible UI/ UX patterns, many of them designed to get around the limitation of having one physical button (always needing a back button on screen, no menu key and so on). The danger here is that as Android developers we don't have this stuff built into the SDK, if you've tried to implement iOS's "overshoot"/ elastic ScrollViews which are purported to be coming to Gingerbread, you'll know how much extra work this can be, and potentially how brittle that might make code, especially if this particular feature is going to be built in. In response to the numbered points above, what about Android's "click list view header to scroll to top", and what about the long-press for bringing up actions/options for an item. TweetDeck is one of the best examples of Android done right IMHO, fully embracing a lot of the design and interaction guidelines that are beginning to emerge. Are we going to confuse users by having an Android way to do things mixed in with an iOS way to do things? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
