Moving from iPhone to AndroidQuick lesson on common design changes when moving to Android

http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/6/2775611/npd-group-q4-2011-us-smartphone-sales-android-iphone

This is just a quick, high-level primer to help you have a conversation around moving your app to Android.

Some of the main differences...

The navigation goes away, and is “hidden” in a standard Android menu

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The “back button” is also in the same menu area

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Some of the main differences...

As well as search

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Different ways for adapting to Android

Menu Only

Totally Custom

Keep everything the same

Move to the top

Full Android

Moving to Android 4.0...

Menu Only

Where the app basically stays the same, but moves navigation functionally to the Android menu bar.

Totally Custom

Where the design patterns are not common to iOS or Android, and stay the same cross-platform.

Keep everything the same

Specifically break with Android patterns to keep the app the same as the iOS app.

Move to the top

Where the app basically stays the same, but the iOS menu bar is moved to the top of the Android app, while most other options stay within the Android menu bar.

Full Android

Considerations were made to use the Android app patterns to their fullest - sometimes very foreign to a iOS customer.

Ice Cream Sandwich** There are a new set of design guidelines (finally!) for Android with the 4.0 release.

Overview and examples: http://www.android.com/about/ice-cream-sandwich/http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/new-4-0.html

The main issues currently around 4.0 is the REALLY slow adoption around new Android versions:

http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html

Jeremy Johnsonjeremy@23hd.com

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