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Re:Android Team “Laser Focused” On The User Experience For N... by buster on Thursday June 17, 2010 @01:45AM (#1438071)
UI redesign will most certainly take place on the homescreen, the launcher, the dialer, etc. In other words: in it's own seperate applications, this wouldn't conflict somewhere because it's done quite frequently. Android is themeable quite nicely, so even changing the standard dialogs from one style to another _should_ work. My own concern here is that some developers probably have written their own UI code and some custom hacks. But we'll see about that.
Re:Android Team “Laser Focused” On The User Experience For N... by eelco on Thursday June 17, 2010 @02:36AM (#1438159)
UI is about how things work first, about styling second. Themes are not going to help you with the former.
Re:Android Team “Laser Focused” On The User Experience For N... by buster on Thursday June 17, 2010 @02:48AM (#1438177)
Correct. And i don't think they want to change how things work. The mechanisms how to operate android are fine. Or do you have an example what fundamental functionality should change?