If Material Design is all about burying frequently used things in complex menu structures, and showing you pretty pictures, animations and shadows instead, they can keep it.
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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?
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sfbloodbrother
Extreme Android User
To go to browse you have to go HOME first, then on the top left, where it says the name of the forum, tap there and a screen comes down for the forums. Really tedious, because going back is a pain too.
sfbloodbrother
Extreme Android User
Okay I can view android forums in tapatalk, but when I go to another forum it crashes.
dragon2knight
Android Enthusiast
I really, really hate car insurance companies and their unrealistic policies......and the way they screw over folks who live in cities, like NYC for instance. I pay nearly THREE times what my sister pays living in the suburbs, only 30 miles away from me!! I'm a great driver to boot, no tickets/accidents/claims in over 20 years. Just because of where I live is the reason they give me for screwing me, how I drive doesn't matter at all, pathetic!!
Phew, just had to get that off my chest after just renewing my Geico policy....it just pisses me off to no end that they can get away with this obvious thievery......**sigh**
Phew, just had to get that off my chest after just renewing my Geico policy....it just pisses me off to no end that they can get away with this obvious thievery......**sigh**
sfbloodbrother
Extreme Android User
Jup they screw people over. But who needs car insurance? Hehe everyone...
dragon2knight
Android Enthusiast
You better believe they know that you "need" it....it just gets really frustrating having to deal with it sometimes.....
nickdalzell
Extreme Android User
nickdalzell
Extreme Android User
MikeDT, Google has been shoving vital user functions behind undisclosed gestures and never revealing them to the user for years. Since Android 4.0 even. They think it's fun for us to discover them by accident aka an Easter Egg. Material Design has nothing to do with it.
Google is so strong about it they are trying to ditch hardware menu buttons (and persuading OEMs to do the same) so we have to hunt for whatever the oddball symbol is for menu. Is it three vertical dots? Hamburger bars? Pull out from the side? Tune in next week for the next episode of 'Google of our Lives'
Gmash
Extreme Android User
function > looks
That's an example of Material Design isn't it?
Oppo's stock ColorOS contacts app. Eveeryone gets a nice little landscape picture assigned to them.
Fortunately, function and ease-of-use have been given priority, unlike the latest Tapatalk.
The stock phone app is similar as well.
Oppo's stock ColorOS contacts app. Eveeryone gets a nice little landscape picture assigned to them.
Fortunately, function and ease-of-use have been given priority, unlike the latest Tapatalk.
The stock phone app is similar as well.
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I have not yet begun to rant!
Windows 8.0, I ranted enough about that one a while back in the Computers forum. LOL
andruoid
Android Expert
Windows? Havent used that since Android 4.1.
sfbloodbrother
Extreme Android User
I don't think I'll be buying another desktop is again. Android is "almost" there. I give it 2 more years maybe 3.
I do still think ios is a bit further ahead than android, but both of them aren't quite there yet.
nickdalzell
Extreme Android User
I'll do anything to ditch flat design. Any rebirth of the polish that I miss is a godsend, and losing browse isn't enough to revert back to the horrid and thankfully short lived era of flat design.
I might not ever get by old leather bound contacts back or my yellow notepad but at least the icons and UI have some bits of 3D polish and the colors are brighter and no longer pastels. I got tired of 2D interfaces way way back in the Windows 3.1 era
sfbloodbrother
Extreme Android User
It worked though. It want much of an upgrade in function.
nickdalzell
Extreme Android User
Android already has iOS beat in features, battery life, and performance, I am not sure what iOS has an upper edge on other than a handful of games I still need an iPad to play as they either have no Android equivalent or look horribly rendered on an Android tablet.
sfbloodbrother
Extreme Android User
In features and performance yes android beats ios. But in games and app quality, I think ios still has the upper edge. 3rd party vendors, and accessories for games too.
Then there's skeumorphism, Oppo seems to like that as well...
Presumably everyone is familiar with what it's supposed to represent? I've not seen records or a record player in an while.
I'm happy with it, as long as it doesn't interfere or take priority over usability.
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nickdalzell
Extreme Android User
There are people who prefer records to tapes or DVDs, and some pro-tube TV holdouts. Otherwise Crosley would go out of business.
That being said, with the graphics prowess of current flagship devices, it is a crying shame to have to accept a UI that made sense in an era where 640k of RAM was 'all you'll ever need' to coin a phrase.
I'm just glad Google is bringing the polish back, bit by bit. Anything to shatter the flat design era shows hope for me at least.
Most kids today still know what a cassette tape is, or what Pac-Man was. what is odd is that despite those facts, hardly anyone under the age of 30 knows what the Popples, Wuzzles, SWAT Kats or Heathcliff were, yet it doesn't stop DVD sales of the cartoons!
Let us not forget that there are lots of younger folks who still prefer classic television and simpler shopping experiences that are being done away with by modern super marts and crappy reality TV. Obviously the stance that younger folks cant appreciate the old is a myth. Obviously there are plenty who thought the era of augmented reality which skeuomorphism was shifting towards was more futuristic than a rehash of an interface from the '80s
Speaking of 80s design. Wasn't the use of geometric shapes (hint new navbar) also a thing in the '80s?
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Yeah. So, you think that one button mouse approach in iOS will ever catch on with desktop machines? Oh wait.
I'd be curious about your reasons behind your opinion that an inferior operating system is ahead - I say I'd, not I'm, as in I would be curious. But not today.
