Owen Smith wrote: > It's the unreadably tiny text that is a problem for me on iOS 7. I had > to back out an update to GoodReader when that app followed suit and I > really struggled to read the menus. Developers appear to have decided > that on retina displays the pixels are tiny so that means they can cram > in lots of tiny text and to a lesser extent icons. It was much better > when all apps were designed for iPad 2's lower resolution and simply > looked better on retina dislays. >
That's true for some Apps but not for iOS 7. In iOS 7 all system text actually got bigger, yet thinner (because you can do this on higher resolution screens). And they do have accessibility options to switch to bolder fonts. The problem at hand is that some other developers think the modern design trend was using lots of whitespace and make the text as invisible as possible to make screens appear less crammed. Light grey text on white background and stuff. But that's really just bad designers putting appearance before usability. This doesn't have a lot to do with iOS 7 itself. iOS 7 has a feature called Dynamic Type which actually addresses exactly the issue you mention because it lets users decide on their preferred text size (globally). If a reader App doesn't support it, it's the problem of the reader App. For a reader I would actually call it bad design. > > Updates for existing apps are still happening I find, I've had 4 updates > this week and recent ones have included ITV Player, BBC Weather, BBC > iPlayer, SpeedTest, Mocha Telnet. So others are managing to get updates > on the App Store which work on iOS 6. > Yes, but it will get less and less. With the advent of iOS 8 I predict that >>90% of all Apps will phase out iOS 6 support. > > I particularly noticed that the change text for a recent BBC update > (Weather or iPlayer, I forget which) said it fixed a problem which only > occured on iOS 5. So the BBC can support back to iOS 5, never mind iOS > 6. > You CAN support old OSs if you App is designed for iOS 7 but also supports the old format. It's usually older Apps just adapted to iOS 7 or Apps almost exclusively using custom UI which makes it easier. For iPeng it was not an option since iPeng's code base was so old I had to modernize it and you don't do that to be backward compatible, putting all the fudges back in. I was hoping that Apple would allow maintaining old Apps for longer since the changes are so big. > > As for iOS 7, all the developers should be made to wear glasses that > reduce their eyesight to a 70 year old and then we'll see what happens > to the UI. I'm only 48 and my eyesight isn't that bad but I still > struggle even with my glasses on. Again, this has nothing to do with iOS 7. I have seen a lot of this, too, but don't mix up bad design with the iOS 7 changes. In Apple's design, nothing got smaller and a lot actually got a lot bigger. All the menu text in iOS 7, for example, is MUCH bigger even by default which is one of the reasons you have to do so much UI changing. The "back" buttons in iPeng didn't fit anymore, for example, even though Apple has taken away the surrounding border. The larger font size still make them so much bigger. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 7, the Universal App for iOS 7* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
