I am doing a Honeycomb app for a TV station, and the GUI will be something similar to the CNN with HLS streaming ++. But in the process I feel like something is wrong with the whole Android tablet thingy.
I have written some of my frustration here: http://thenextgenapps.blogspot.com/2011/06/android-apps-for-tablets-are-broken.html So I started wondering, am I the only one doing Android 3.x development that sees this issues? I had so many issues that I didn't even get to write them all down. Like the whole navigation model stuff. You have the back navigation in the lower left corner. Apps can also implement back button in the top right corner with a simple setting (the CNN app thought a download article icon was nicer than a back button here) and then you have the menu in the top right corner (which CNN also decided to customize heavily). The bottom right corner is "reserved" for the tray icons. So you are basically telling the user to look in 3 corners of the tablet to navigate around in the app? Is this good UX? I'm just a developer but my feeling is no :-) I really want to like Android tablets, but my Xoom is catching dust on my desk while the iPad gets fresh air every day and that's mostly software fault in my case. I consider myself an Android fanboy when there are platform discussions but the Android tablets are left defenseless when brought up in conversations. I really hope Google is taking a long hard look at the UX and maybe rethinks some of it. I hope some of you out there disagrees with me :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
