[Android Apps and Games] Malmanian:
My 0.2 cents about some minor improvements/suggestions..

Greetings jisdroid! This is my first post here at the xda developers forum. Many thanks for this very useful and beautiful/retro/modern looking application. I just purchased the license since I really want to support more updates for this quality project and it is very reasonably priced considering the fact that I use the timer almost every day for cooking and car parkings :).

I love the additional STOPWATCH / TIMER shortcut buttons on the top.

Here are my 0.2 cents about some minor improvements/suggestions:

* The “Remove Ads” button should not be there for users that have purchased/updated their license.

* The previous minimalistic 4-section menu buttons looked better and less cluttered than the current 6-section menu layout in my opinion. It would indeed look great if the “About” button could be moved inside the “Preferences” list. This would only leave the “Lap list / Send Laps / Timer / Preferences” when the MENU button is pressed.

* The “Remove ads” button should be removed from the MENU and instead be visible as a notifier when the app starts or perhaps when exiting the app, and completely removed for paid users.

* The Timer should reset to 0:00:000 when the “RESET” button is pressed:

once

if the timer is already stopped or

twice

if the timer is already running as a regular classic analog timer watch.

* Pressing the latest “Stopwatch Lap # ##:##:##:###” under the digital digits should take the user directly to the lap-list. The LAP-LIST button on top won’t be needed if this is implanted and it looks for sure much cleaner with only “STOPWATCH / TIMER” instead of the current “STOPWATCH /LAP-LIST / TIMER”.

** This app seems to completely lack multi-tasking within the app itself. For example if the TIMER is running and you press the STOPWATCH button on top, it will automatically STOP the timer and you can never get back to it and vice versa for the STOPWATCH, instead of being able to switch between them while they are running.

* Pressing the TIMER button should take you directly to the TIMER section and from there the user should press the SET button to set it up. This functionality will definitely be needed if multitasking within the app is implanted so that the user can switch back and forth between TIMER and STOPWATCH while active.

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I should have perhaps e-mailed you these suggestions but I personally think that suggestions should be public to improve upon other ideas from within the community.

As a former iPhone 4/iOS user and hobby app-developer I can for sure say that the Android market has thousands of very functional and useful applications ruined by an awful app GUI that kills the user experience, in other words made by great JAVA programmers with minimum or no graphic design skills. I personally have uninstalled many android-apps only due to a bad/ugly UI design despite the great functionality.

I have noticed that most of the apps on the android market are a single-man job, without any graphic UI designer involved to maximize the £$ profit. If a programmer is not very good at Photoshop and can’t create a simple and beautiful UI layout then they should for sure consider teaming up with a graphic designer and share the profits perhaps “70% / 30%”. For this to happen the Android market needs a much more strict quality control and more fastidious and demanding users when it comes the the GUI as apple does with iOS apps.

Again many thanks for this useful application and keep up the good work.

Best regards