Wednesday, March 25, 2015
REVIEW360!-KITKAT VS LOLIPOP android os
kitkat
Not got Android KitKat yet? Here’s what you can expect once it lands.
HOME SCREEN:image home screen
Home is a customizable space that houses app shortcuts, folders and widgets. Navigate between different home screen panels by swiping left and right.
The Favorites Tray at the bottom always keeps your most important shortcuts and folders in view regardless of which panel is currently showing.
Access the entire collection of apps and widgets by touching the All Apps button at the center of the Favorites Tray
APPS: Users can drag an app or widget icon from the All Apps screen and place it in any empty location on any Home screen.
RECENT;Recents provides an efficient way of switching between recently used applications. It provides a clear navigation path between multiple ongoing tasks.
The Recents button at the right side of the navigation bar displays the apps that the user has interacted with most recently. They are organized in reverse chronological order with the most recently used app at the bottom.
Switch to an app by touching it. Remove an item by swiping left or right.
Displays pending notifications on the left and status, such as time, battery level, or signal strength, on the right. Swipe down from the status bar to show notification details.icons;The Android Asset Studio already serves as a great resource for developers to incorporate approved icons into their applications, but what if you’ve got other ideas? In KitKat, Google now encourages more flexibility in this area when designing to fit your brand. For developers using a style of icon that is different from the flat elements of the Holo UI typically found in the action bar, it is suggested that you adapt the existing Android icons to fit your established design. They also offer some additional flexibility in allowing developers to incorporate icons that do not originate from within Android. It is important to note that these cannot be icons carried over from another platform.
lolipop
Material design is a comprehensive guide for visual, motion, and interaction design across platforms and devices. Android 5.0 provides a new theme, new widgets for complex views, and new APIs for shadows and animations that help you implement material design patterns in your apps.
Before Android KitKat, Android's default touch feedback color was a vibrant blue. Every touch resulted in a jolt of high-contrast color, in a shade that might not have mixed well with your brand's color(s).
In Android KitKat and beyond, touch feedback is subtle: when something is touched, by default its background color slightly darkens or lightens. This provides two benefits: (1) sprinkles of encouragement are more pleasant than jolts, and (2) incorporating your branding is much easier because the default touch feedback works with whatever hue you choose. Check the updated Touch Feedback page for more details.
geatures;updated Gestures page covers new and updated gestures introduced in Android KitKat: double touch drag and double touch.
Changing view within a screen
Changing view options for a screen does not change the behavior of Up or Back: the screen is still in the same place within the app's hierarchy, and no new navigation history is created.
Examples of such view changes are:
Switching views using tabs and/or left-and-right swipes
Switching views using a dropdown (aka collapsed tabs)
Filtering a list
Sorting a listChanging display characteristics (such as zooming)
new in lolipop:Consistency has its place in Android, but you also have the flexibility to customize the look of your app to reinforce your brand.
Use your brand color for accent by overriding the Android framework's default blue in UI elements like checkboxes, progress bars, radio buttons, sliders, tabs, and scroll indicators.
Show your app's launcher icon and name in the action bar so that users can see it in every screen of your app.
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