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Google I/O 2014 Discussion / Coverage

I missed a lot bro but the lockscreen notifications and statusbar colours caught my eye. Something else I forgot lol. When i read a summary (or Alex's rants) I'll list more.
Tbh because I missed so much I was really sharing the consensus of some peeps I follow and tryin to seem smart :D
 
Rxpert83 said:
The protesters were also pretty funny. There was someone yelling about google building robots that would kill us all before being lead out by security :rofl:
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I liked David Burke's crack about being out for a protest (I think it was Burke).
 
The new nav bars will take some getting use to. The symbols they chose for home and recents aren't intuitive at all.
 
funkylogik said:
I missed a lot bro but the lockscreen notifications and statusbar colours caught my eye. Something else I forgot lol. When i read a summary (or Alex's rants) I'll list more.
Tbh because I missed so much I was really sharing the consensus of some peeps I follow and tryin to seem smart :D
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No problemo brother. They packed a lot into the keynote so I'll have to watch it again anyway to remember what any things called :o. That's why I used vague terms as well :rofl:
 
jhawkkw said:
The new nav bars will take some getting use to. The symbols they chose for home and recents aren't intuitive at all.
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Doesn't muscle memory come into it pretty fast anyway mate?
What I hate is when I put a new rom on my Nexus tab and haven't set it up yet so I'm gesturing on the right edge instead of pressing nav buttons lol its like pure intuitive to use Pie now.
Have Google added any gesture control?
Native pie option would rock
 
Do we have a number yet?

One thing I know for sure is that @Nick Dalzell is gonna HATE the 'Fisher Price' flat UI lol.
Looking forward to his rant :beer::p
 
I think it’s safe to say we’re all pretty hyped about the upcoming Android L release, the next version of Android that looks to pretty things up with Google’s new Material redesign. As part of Google’s new found focus on design, the search giant is already providing developers with a handy resource page. The page […]

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often, when i see the word 'redesign' in terms of an operating system, it often means further devolution into the UX design aesthetic of the Palm Pilot era. not sure i like that. with the specs and screens these days, what with 1080p being a standard, why on earth are we using a UX that looks like it came from the late 80s?

to the younger 'brony' set who these interfaces seem to target, what with their overuse of limited, zero depth, pastel color schemes and razor thin fonts, this might seem fresh and hip to them.

what concerns me, heck, outright frightens me, is that if flat design is not a passing fad (like the disco/1970s fashion revival of the late 1990s aka the Spice Girl era) how long before the hardware adapts to the software? Will we see the return of low resolution, resistive touchscreens with stylii, and internal storage capacities in the Megabytes?

without a dazzling, polished UX it does make me wonder. here we have amazing tech, amazing screens, yet are going with a UI that seems blatantly fitting to the Lisa Frank set than adults.

i was there, perhaps the bronies were too young to recall the era of Windows 1.0, Prodigy Interactive Personal Service, America Online and dare i say it, OS/2 Warp. all flat designs. while fun from a nostalgia perspective within a virtual machine, it would be horrible if those UX designs came back and i was forced to use one again.
 
nickdalzell said:
often, when i see the word 'redesign' in terms of an operating system, it often means further devolution into the UX design aesthetic of the Palm Pilot era. not sure i like that. with the specs and screens these days, what with 1080p being a standard, why on earth are we using a UX that looks like it came from the late 80s?

to the younger 'brony' set who these interfaces seem to target, what with their overuse of limited, zero depth, pastel color schemes and razor thin fonts, this might seem fresh and hip to them.

what concerns me, heck, outright frightens me, is that if flat design is not a passing fad (like the disco/1970s fashion revival of the late 1990s aka the Spice Girl era) how long before the hardware adapts to the software? Will we see the return of low resolution, resistive touchscreens with stylii, and internal storage capacities in the Megabytes?

without a dazzling, polished UX it does make me wonder. here we have amazing tech, amazing screens, yet are going with a UI that seems blatantly fitting to the Lisa Frank set than adults.

i was there, perhaps the bronies were too young to recall the era of Windows 1.0, Prodigy Interactive Personal Service, America Online and dare i say it, OS/2 Warp. all flat designs. while fun from a nostalgia perspective within a virtual machine, it would be horrible if those UX designs came back and i was forced to use one again.
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How the fun do you get Brony out of this??

It was hard to take you seriously because of your constant over exaggerations before but now you're even more ridiculous lmao.
 
did you see the color schemes? seriously it is so feminine that the only males who would dare carry such a hideous dated looking UX would have to be fans of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic series to the extreme. unfortunately it seems to be buried so deep into the system UI that no amount of launcher or root magic can fix it.

i just cannot grasp the whole flat design logic at all. anyone can design a UX in Microsoft Paint. however in the 1080p era it is long out of date.
 
nickdalzell said:
did you see the color schemes? seriously it is so feminine that the only males who would dare carry such a hideous dated looking UX would have to be fans of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic series to the extreme. unfortunately it seems to be buried so deep into the system UI that no amount of launcher or root magic can fix it

i just cannot grasp the whole flat design logic at all. anyone can design a UX in Microsoft Paint. however in the 1080p era it is long out of date.
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Ah well that doesn't make you sound insecure at all ;)
 
No pie. That's strictly a custom ROM festure.


No info on version number or name yet. Likely won't get it til release. Although I'm interested to see what is in the "about" phone menu tomorrow.aybe google will make everyone sign an NDA :rofl:

Honestly if were talking about things google needs to cherry pick from the ROM community the right swipe to quick settings has needed to happen for years now.
 
funkylogik said:
@Phandroid can we have a game of guess who you are?
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I don't care who's writing what, I just wish this bot would stop spamming the lounge sections and go back to the hole it crawled out of. If I want to read the blog, I'll read the blog. Fishing for clicks doesn't belong in the forum.
 
it might be a Google Bot. next up, Skynet becomes self aware.

no, too good for 'em. but now i got disturbing images of a Google robot with a voice similar to the turrets in Portal 2, given the UX choice they go with being do outright girly.

perhaps Google hails from Aperture Laboratories. if anyone ever played the games, the computers all share flat design elements. but then according to the Wiki, Aperture closed/bankrupted in the 80s.
 
I'm pretty sure you can access PIE controls with Xposed and Gravity Box, but I don't use them so I can't confirm. Muscle memory will come into play, but it's still going to look weird as hell having been use to those icons since the Honeycomb days.
 
jhawkkw said:
I'm pretty sure you can access PIE controls with Xposed and Gravity Box, but I don't use them so I can't confirm. Muscle memory will come into play, but it's still going to look weird as hell having been use to those icons since the Honeycomb days.
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You're probably right. I forgot how gravitybox blurs the line between custom rom and just plain rooted :D
 
Rxpert83 said:
You're probably right. I forgot how gravitybox blurs the line between custom rom and just plain rooted :D
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Trouble is Xposed doesn't work with ART lol.
The Xposed dev always said once ART comes out of beta he'l work hard on fixing it. There was no point before since it would probably change in 'L' and be a waste of time. Plus there was next to no documentation about ART to work with :thumbup:
Well my phone is at EOL so it's custom roms for me anyway.
What I'm gona do with my Nexus tab...... I haven't decided. Maybe it won't get L either?

Any hints of some Google hardware btw?
 
One of the many things Google talked about yesterday was Android Wear. They gave us a demo of the software, and announced two smartwatches that can be purchased right now. One thing that they didn't talk a lot about is what devices are compatible with Android Wear.

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