Google I|O developer conference is almost here. Tomorrow we will see Android 4.1 Jelly Bean announcement and what Nexus devices come with it.
As every year Google has released an official Google I|O app for the conference visitors and everyone else who wants to follow the upcoming sessions. The app is a well designed example of Google's talented app design and developer team. Unlike many other apps the IO app is going to be open source soon after the conference. It is going to be the example app for the coming year. Let's take a quick look what the app holds in it.
[EDIT] Here's a screenshot from a 7" tablet thanks to +Nathan Gould.
The tablet design is brilliant also on the session screens. Note the nice graphic as empty selection state.
As every year Google has released an official Google I|O app for the conference visitors and everyone else who wants to follow the upcoming sessions. The app is a well designed example of Google's talented app design and developer team. Unlike many other apps the IO app is going to be open source soon after the conference. It is going to be the example app for the coming year. Let's take a quick look what the app holds in it.
Dashboard is gone
The first thing you'll notice is that the dashboard is gone from the app. However, contrary to my expectation the app does not have the side navigation we've seen in the Google+ app. The app launches directly to a screen listing the sessions and event calendar. Note that the tab navigation turns into dropdown navigation when in horizontal mode.
The gorgeous tablet landing screen combines all the three screens into one. My 7" tablet is broken so I cannot check how it looks on a smaller tab. It would be interesting to see if there's something different on a smaller tab.
[EDIT] Here's a screenshot from a 7" tablet thanks to +Nathan Gould.
Session screens
Session screens follow the same design.The tablet design is brilliant also on the session screens. Note the nice graphic as empty selection state.
Contextual Action Bar / Action Mode
Contextual action bar is triggered with long press.
Thanks for the great review Juhani! We're hard at work on open sourcing the app :)
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Delete@roman.nurik in android 3.2 the search function something glitch :(. when i tap the search icon it goes some other place then i tap second time the icon it display search bar. please fix this.
DeleteCan't wait for the source of this app :D
ReplyDeleteThe portait mode on tablets is good too.
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https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1_TnycI9vQGeXd2ZGx5U1k2c1k
Thanks Arthur, that's a good point. I didn't try portrait mode. I'll add a screenshot.
DeleteGreat review. It will be interesting to see how the 3-pane layout is implemented. I mean, there's a lot of permutations and combinations of the panes. I can't wait to lay my hands on the source and see for myself how these Fragments are combined into Activities with various number of panes in them.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if they used ActionbarSherlock to get the ICS look and feel on older devices :-)
ReplyDeleteThey indeed are using ABS.
DeleteSome (pretty obvious) bugs:
ReplyDeletehttps://plus.google.com/u/0/102842919332120491949/posts/6kDdt5XvYP4
I am using the actionbar tabs and viewpager in my apps. Changing to a spinner when in landscape mode is good but there is a problem. When we have changed the page with swiping in the viewpager the tabs are changing automatically but the spinner is not.
ReplyDeleteThat's a known issue in the Android framework. I hope it will get fixed in the next release.
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