I absolutely disagree with you. The implementation of tabs is terrible in Android. On the iPhone, you can have a complex interface, where each tab can the have a number of different sliding views.
I am unaware of a possibility of doing this with Android, so you're limited to about 5 pages for your app. Some things are better in Android, but tabs are not. On Dec 2, 12:53 pm, String <sterling.ud...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I'm not opposed to using better ideas when I find them. And I'm also > not advocating reinventing the wheel. Nice straw men you have there. > If your UI requires tabs, the Android platform has an excellent set of > classes for doing so. > > What I am opposed to is trying to turn Android into an iPhone > imitation. From a usability standpoint, both UIs have perfectly usable > tab implementations. Do you honestly think the iPhone's tabs are more > usable than Android? In fact, I'd go further and say that, *in the > context of Android*, the Android tabs are *more* usable - simply > because they offer a consistent UI and don't try to be all iPhoney. > > String > > On Dec 1, 10:17 pm, Jarrod Overson <jsover...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > That is a horrible attitude though it does, maybe, explain why so many > > market applications are of such poor quality. > > > There is no doubting that the iphone UI and usability standards are > > leagues above the barely existent android guidelines. Why turn your > > back on something that is so undeniably successful and attempt to > > better it blindly? I don't think it's stepping out on much of a limb > > to bet that apple's R&D and usability spending far exceeds your own. > > > Emulating the best of others while improving where they fail is a good > > recipe for success, not sticking with some ridiculous notion of > > "pride." If you have better solutions (that truly are better), use > > them as arguments for change, but otherwise keep self-destructive > > attitudes to yourself. > > > -- > > Jarrod > > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:01 PM, String <sterling.ud...@googlemail.com> > > wrote: > > > On Dec 1, 11:40 am, Dilli <dilliraomca...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> i want to develop application which UI should look like ( iphone > > >> view ) > > > >> currently i am using Tab view but i want my application view should > > >> be like iphone tab view > > > >> suggest me how can i do it ?? > > > > If you want your app to use the iPhone UI, switch to iPhone > > > development. Otherwise, have a little pride in being an Android > > > developer instead. > > > > String > > > > -- > > > 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 > > -- 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
