Moving from iPhone to Android
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The document provides a brief guide on transitioning an app from iOS to Android, highlighting key design differences such as navigation menus and the back button. It outlines various approaches for adapting apps to Android, including maintaining a similar design to iOS or fully utilizing Android’s design patterns. Additionally, it mentions the new design guidelines introduced in Android 4.0 and notes the slow adoption rate of new Android versions.
Moving from iPhone to Android
- 1. Moving from iPhone to Android Quick 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
- 2. This is just a quick, high-level primer to help you have a conversation around moving your app to Android.
- 3. Some of the main differences... x The navigation goes away, and is “hidden” in a standard Android menu
- 4. Some of the main differences... x The “back button” is also in the same menu area
- 5. Some of the main differences... x As well as search
- 6. 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...
- 7. Menu Only Where the app basically stays the same, but moves navigation functionally to the Android menu bar.
- 12. Totally Custom Where the design patterns are not common to iOS or Android, and stay the same cross-platform.
- 15. Keep everything the same Specifically break with Android patterns to keep the app the same as the iOS app.
- 17. 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.
- 23. Full Android Considerations were made to use the Android app patterns to their fullest - sometimes very foreign to a iOS customer.
- 27. 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
- 29. Jeremy Johnson jeremy@23hd.com @jeremyjohnson www.jeremyjohnsononline.com