Showing posts with label ui. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ui. Show all posts

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Evaluation of the second series simple interface customization system check it out thoroughly Meizu M9


Meizu M9 people some of the most attractive piece of 960X640 in addition to high-resolution screen, the system is its depth ofcustomization interface. Before evaluating the system we have tofirst talk about the interface design of these interfaces, the "culprit"is who to thank. I believe that many friends have guessed, yes, Meizu M9 as M8, UI design is still a eico design tocompletion. The design company was established in 2004, has now been 6 years, senior Meizu M8 users should already be familiar with eico the.
eico design skill do? HTC TouchFlo 3D, Meizu M8, Google'ssearch, Sogou input method, Google input, Opera Chinese version, VeryCD eDonkey (in fact, is a "gross" donkey) easyMule,Asus EeePC T91, Taobao iPhone official application and innovation of ZEN player, these Interface is done by the eicointeraction design, how, for these products is very familiar with it.The Android operating system equipped with e man e the T2, CoolN930, and we have mentioned in the micro-Bo Rong Wei 350 in the vehicle equipped with the Android system interface, these areeico to complete the design. Meizu M9 now turn to a ... ... Well, nextwe come to find out the system on the Meizu M9.


The first is the lock screen, can not afford a single original unlockAndroid, mute, and clock. Meizu M9 lock screen in a more user-friendly interface, similar to MIUI and snacks OS design, in the lock-screen interface, the interface directly to the basic functions ofmobile phones - calls and SMS. And on the basis of the originalmessage by adding a week of X, in fact, built into the system againif the information is even more perfect to join the Lunar.


Since the launch of HTC Sense After the great success, Androidsystem Launcher.apk depth of customization has become a publiccompany in the most important interface customization system.Meizu M9's main interface is very simple, the bottom of the dialbutton on the dock, respectively, browser, text messaging. Where"M" logo of the browser buttons occupy a major position in terms ofvisible Meizu Meizu M9 browser is full of confidence and willbecome an Internet browser to see the important function of mobile phones.
In the list area, Meizu M9 and imitation interact MIUI iOS as, Meizu M9's Android Launcher abandoned the program list the contentspage, so have been on hold since the installation program in the desktop, if you need to classify, you can create documents on the desktop Shelved the program classification folders, each foldercan be placed in 12 applications.
Several aspects of the desktop screen, Meizu M9 can support up to 10-screen desktop. Units of a single screen layout 4X4, that can be placed every 16-screen applications. If you do not use folders, not the desktop add the Widget plugin, Meizu M9 install up to 160applications. Of course, the theory that, if storage space is large enough (I could write the future of the APP TO EXT Meizu M9tutorial), Meizu M9 can be placed on the desktop, a total of 12(folder) X16 (place the number of units in a single screen) X10 (total Screen number) -1 (reserved space for application installation) = 1919 application. In theory, this is the Meizu M9 uses its own Launcher, in the case of adequate storage space can beinstalled up to the number of applications.
Launcher can say about a thing more to go, and back then we go into detail, let's read on.


Multi-task switching, Meizu M9 reference to multi-task switchingdesign iOS 4.1, Android models bring up more general task is tolong press Home button and the Meizu M9 uses a double-click theHome button to bring up the multi-tasking manner. Native support formore than six task switching, Meizu M9 increased to 12.




Tuesday, April 5, 2011

App review | SPB Shell 3D for Android


As we all know, the beauty of Android stems from the fact that you get a wide variety of choices when it comes to devices and interface, though the latter can sometimes be a double-edged sword. Luckily, users who are fed up with their bloated Android UI but don't want to (or can't) mess around with ROMs now have another easy solution. Joining the handful of Android launchers is SPB's Shell 3D app, which installs as a replacement (but removable) home screen that comes with some nifty widgets (radio switches, backlight dimmer, weather forecast with a 3D chart, clock with over 60 skins, world time with a 3D globe, etc.) and resizeable folders.

As you can see above, the highlight of the show here is a cool-looking 3D carousel for switching between up to 16 panels, and you can trigger it by either tapping or horizontally dragging the bottom-center button. Whilst in carousel mode, you can also rearrange the panels, change their colors, or flick away excess panels. All of this required no manual reading on our end, so it's safe to say that this is a pretty intuitive app. Read on to see what the performance is like.

We've been playing with Shell 3D on our Xperia Play, Nexus S, and Dell Venue for a few days, and we're still surprised by its butter-like smoothness -- SPB claims that the app is rendered consistently at 60fps on most modern Android devices. The only time we see this app hiccup is when we throw in the Pictures panel (for displaying Flickr's pictures of the day), so while this feature is a nice touch, we tend to keep it tucked away for minimal irritation. Other than that, we enjoy casually spinning the carousel or flicking between the panels for the subtle 3D transition effect, without significantly affecting battery life as well.

As for the app list, it's simply a vertical scrolling list with springy effects when you hit the top or bottom, but there's also a nice addition here: apps that already have a shortcut added to a panel are marked with a little home icon. That said, there's another side to this: for some reason, SPB decided that we shouldn't be allowed to add the same shortcut to multiple panels, which can be annoying for those who want maximum accessibility to the most frequently used shortcuts. For an app costing $14.95, this shouldn't be too much to ask for, right? But otherwise, Shell 3D is a pretty neat add-on for those looking to breathe new life into their Android phones.