What's that touchscreen in my room?

Re:What's that touchscreen in my room? by lawgimenez on Friday January 19, 2024 @08:19PM (#39063648)

Very nostalgic, I have developed several apps before with Lollipop and was surprised with their choice of using WebView. I believe they set the NetThings app as a “launcher” app?

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Re:What's that touchscreen in my room? by laplab on Friday January 19, 2024 @08:23PM (#39063682)

I also assumed that they would, but weirdly no. When the tablet booted up, I was greeted with stock launcher.

Also, WebView is only part of the app, they used something else (which did not look like Android native UI) for the WiFi network picker.

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Re:What's that touchscreen in my room? by mananaysiempre on Friday January 19, 2024 @08:39PM (#39063781)

The launcher with its Holo tabs and the icon style look more like Android 4.something (I to K) to me, by the way. Android 5 (L) was the first Material Design release (the one[1] that had actual coherent principles behind it).

[1] https://m1.material.io/

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Re:What's that touchscreen in my room? by krackers on Friday January 19, 2024 @09:12PM (#39063981)

Yeah given the holoyolo look it's almost certainly ICS or jelly bean. I think kitkat's launcher looked a bit different, it didn't have the tabs: by then they had moved from tron blue to white.

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Re:What's that touchscreen in my room? by lawgimenez on Friday January 19, 2024 @09:10PM (#39063970)

Yeah you are right, I believe it is on Jelly Bean. This was Holo running on ICS. https://law.gmnz.xyz/uploads/2023/169e32e731.png

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Re:What's that touchscreen in my room? by exikyut on Friday January 19, 2024 @08:56PM (#39063886)

Yeah, I'd be curious to see what the About activity shows.

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Re:What's that touchscreen in my room? by exikyut on Friday January 19, 2024 @08:56PM (#39063882)

Ooh, what did it look like?

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