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[EVO 4G General] teh roxxorz:
I think he meant more of a dual band, where it could be potentially changed via OTA, to get more people behind the nexus, because sprint KNOWS people want it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
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I'll be designing various UI concept improvements for Android and I'll keep them uploaded here.

If you have any ideas then please, let me know

8th January - Notification Concept Improvements Part 1

My first concept interface is done and ready for viewing - as well as feedback and comments.

This concept goes over some of my notification concepts which I feel would make Android a little more functional and fluid. Let me know what you think.

[YOUTUBE]HL4gbST5BhE[/YOUTUBE]​

All feedback and comments are welcome. Feel free to message me on any of the sites above.

These are just concepts, unfortunately I dont have the coding skills required to make this a reality. However if I can get ideas and make concepts up, a dev from the forums, the cyanogen mode team or perhaps Google themselves if we're lucky will see this and help make them become a reality.

If you would like to incorporate these ideas into a ROM, application etc, then please contact me first

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tsunami1609:
Honestly there isn't much I'd change right now. I haven't noticed much that I would change.

In terms of performance, they NEED to fix the autorotate function. Yes, it's nice now that it shows an animation, but it takes waaaay too long to rotate. This was the same gripe I had with Honeycomb tablets. I'm positive that it's intentional by Google, because other phone running ICS with skins rotate faster (I have a Sensation to compare).

This second one is gonna get a bit long.

Second, they need to change the response time of the recent apps button. After extended use and several apps running, there will be a slight delay between pressing the button and the list opening up. I'm actually fine with the fact that there's a delay, it's just where the delay is. The way it runs is you touch the button, there's a delay(lag, whatever you want to call it), then the phone vibrates, the button lights up, and the list comes up. What google needs to do is change the way it functions. Make sure the haptic feedback functions and the button lights up

the instant your finger touches it

. Then it can delay and the list can come up. In other words G needs to make the illumination and haptic feedback first priority. Then it could work on the multitasking process.

I think if it was done in this manner, the lag would be much less noticeable. It's the same as showing some sort of screen or animation when starting an app. If you touch an app and nothing happens (the screen doesn't change at all, not even a press animation) until the apps fully loaded and running it'll be seen as lag. If you touch an app and immediately see a loading screen or an animation (just examples) then you know the app started up already, and it's perceived as loading instead of lag.

Phew. That was a mouthful. It needed to be said. Come on now Google. All of both of these are just a little tweak in software. Entirely doable. Or maybe it's already done. I don't know for sure since I'm still running 4.0.1

Other than that ICS is great.

EDIT: oh and Google should change the notification to mirror that of tablets. I don't see why they removed the quick settings; it seems unlike them. Just the basics like in Honeycomb: wifi toggle, brightness, bluetooth and autorotate. I've seen mods include it, so I'm sure they could come up with an elegant solution
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Smokeey:
They need to add the ability to get rid of the Google Search bar on all homescreens or make it less intrusive on the homescreen.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @rbiter:
Fixing notifications is easy. Just drag and drop custom sounds into notifications, alarm and ringtones folder. Using same nokia notification for text ever since my first smartphone. I have the usual buzzer alarm since ics didnt include it. I would also like option of no search bar or at least pinning it to desired homescreen. It would be nice if google included more in house options for themes, colors and backgrounds. Sms, gmail, calendar and email are ridiculously white. I'd like more black background white text options. We also need a toggle for the gpu clocks or coolbho3000 to hook us up in setcpu. Options for amount of home screens. 32GB and/or micro sd. Better clock options. Damn pogo pins car dock already.

My grandma beat me down and took my nexus. Sent from a jitterbug with beats by dre.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ATHM50:
Stole the words out of my mouth. It sounds like nit-pickey stuff but it really would bring it all together nicely.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BlackDino:
Your second point is fixed in 4.0.3

I agree with the OP I hope google does something new with the notifications.

Even just adding them to the lockscreen like iOS would be awesome

I also dislike how the notifications have a character limit, it would be cool if you had the dropdown open long enough the text would scroll
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] daandman:
- I'd love to have swiping away a text or email mark it as read. And while we're on notifications I don't get why contact pics don't display in the drop-down bar for texts, only for emails.

- Swiping away a recent app actually kills it

- Option to easily switch between the phone & people apps

- Option to mute shutter sound right in camera menu

- Notification bar toggles like in CyanogenMod or AOKP
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BlackDino:
Swiping away apps actually does kill them, you can see the process dying in the logs when removing from recent app list
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Kinbote:
I would like a new SMS app theme. The current one is pretty ugly. Something like Windows Phone 7's messaging theme would be much nicer.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
The reason I ask is im just doing a concept design for ICS. Not a custom launcher but actual improvements to stock.

For notifications i actually meant the looks and functionality of it. The first concept ive done is to change how the text notifications work.

I don't like the character limit or how restrictive it is, so I've changed it.

Hopefully when I've got my concepts together, someone will be able to help make them a reality, be it a dev, the cyanogen team or google themselves lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tristan202:
I would really like a change to the lockscreen while listening to music. I want the bottom half of the screen to be transparent, or to show the wallpaper instead of beeing black. I have been searching through SystemUI, framework-res and android.policy.jar to try and find it, but haven't as of yet.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
Do you mean where the soft buttons would sit?

You'd like to see music controls in there?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Northernmost:
Soft button area supporting gestures

I came to Android from webOS after HP shot themselves in the foot several times and one of the things I miss most is the gesture bar you had at the bottom of the screen. With the advent of the soft button area in ICS I see a real option to enable the area to work in a similar fashion.

For those that are unfamiliar with it it's basically an area at the bottom of the screen blocked off from apps that registers simple finger gestures. This made the basics of actually using a device a breeze and pleasure i.e. no looking for a particular button / tapping the wrong button when you weren't looking and the gestures were consistent no matter what app was running.

The gestures were:

A single swipe up would show you your running apps.

Swiping 2 fingers up would show you the launcher (app drawer).

A leftward swipe would go back.

A full swipe across the entire area going either right or left would take you to the next or previous running app.

Besides the wireless charging the gesture area was one of the webOS killer features you very quickly learned to take for-granted. So yeah, I'd like the soft button area to handle gestures in case you haven't guessed already ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
Ok ill see what I can mock up. I've done a basic notification text, just need to add another feature before i finalise it
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Northernmost:
Go you! I was hoping this was something Matias Duarte would bring to Android himself.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tristan202:
No, it's the black part of this screenshot I'd like changed.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
Oh wow. Thats actually what it looks like when playing music o.O

I think that black part may be for album art?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tristan202:
No, it just shows the album art at the very top. Up where the media buttons are.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
:rolleyes:

How stupid. Definitely a tweak that should be there
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mohitrocks:
Honestly, the only two things I want to be changed in terms of the UI are

1.) The ability to hide the soft keys at will for example, if I'm playing a game I want to be able to utilize the entire screen. I think a gesture to hide + bring back the soft keys is the solution. Highly unlikely to be implemented anytime soon :(

2.) Such as many launchers which have the functionality to have scrollable docks, I would like the soft keys to be scrollable. It would be pretty awesome to be able to have different toggles such as wifi, Bluetooth and even apps always available since unlike the notification bar, the soft keys never disappear regardless of the current app.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ChongoDroid:
I'd like the transition animations from the tablet ics without using 240dpi

Sent from my Google phone
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
I don't actually know what these are like.

I've added in some of my own animations for a few things such as clicking a notification makes the application slide in from the left.

As I've mentioned, its only a concept video as I dont have the coding knowledge required to make it a reality :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ChongoDroid:
It's similar to the honeycomb holographic transitions. They might be the same actually.

Edit: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jrummy.animation.changer

It's a paid app (99 cents) and I haven't tested it on ICS so nandroid if you test. This worked brilliantly on gingerbread.

Sent from my Google phone
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
I'll have a look at some youtube vids
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Downr@nge:
I think my requests are pretty simple.

Dialer: Add functionality to quick search for a contact by using the alpha dialpad. Sorta like how it is in Sense.

Call History tab: They way ICS keeps history is kinda un-intuitive. As of now, call history is spread out (bear with me). Lets say my friend calls me at 8am for 5 minutes and then again at 5pm for two minutes, then again at 8:30pm for 4 minutes. The way ICS keeps history (as I see it) is it logs what time a call comes in and goes out and duration. The issue is how call duration history is kept.

In Sense, when you look at your call history, you could click on any call and it would go to a screen which showed ALL the history AND durations IN ONE PLACE. In ICS, duration history is kept at each call that is logged; in other words, duration history is all over the place. This makes it quite annoying when you are trying to find out exactly how long a specific call was and when it was placed.

I'd also like to see a quick reply SMS popup box like Handcent has. I much prefer the stock messenger's look over Handcent (yes I know you can customize it lol) so I only use Handcent's popup box.

Browser: Why Google hasnt put Chrome on mobile yet is beyond me. They should hurry up and put Chrome on Android or just buy DolphinHD. The stock browser is nice but kinda un-intuitive on where to get to your bookmarks.

Phone volume: LOUDER VOLUME PLEASE! When i'm home, I like to leave my phone on my computer desk. Sometimes, it is VERY hard to hear some of the stock ringtones. They are not loud enough. I hate having had to pay for Volume+ to fix that issue!

GUI: Id love to have the ability to easily customize the soft buttons without having to root. I am not rooting my phone but would love this option.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
One of my current concepts makes the text or email notifications a bit bigger. When you click it, it slides down with an entry field ;)

I'll try do a concept for a popup, should be fairly simple
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Downr@nge:
Thats an AMAZING idea if executed well!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] player911:
Your Dialer and GUI issues are resolved on custom roms. The volume is plenty loud IMO. I've had a few people comment, "wow that speaker is loud".

Messages function would be cool. MIUI does this. I got quite used to it. I'd also like to second the Swipe to Clear messages from the notification bar AND MARK THEM AS READ. This would be a super sweet option. For email, gmail, and messages.

Also I like the Lockscreen Music layout. One of the reasons I was really pumped for the phone. It's solid black to conserve power, since your messing with changing songs and powering the screen on/off. Plus I LOVE the solid black on the phone. Like said, it looks like looking into a black hole. The screen seems to just be hovering there.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
Again a concept tweak I've got is swipe left to close, swipe right to mark as read and close.

Also, music player can be controlled by volume buttons, hold down to go back, up to go forward
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] CptJimmy:
I'd like to see a tiny tweak to the notification dropdowm:

Keep the date on the left, move the settings button all the way to the right, and put the battery percentage with icon somewhere between like it's done in HC. I have trouble reading the tiny little number in the status icon on my CM9 Kang ROM.

It's the little things that count :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
Doable, but I think the date would need to be digitized so

06/01/2012 rather than January, 6th 2012

to save space
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Downr@nge:
I hear you but I do not want to root. MIUI is VERY unstable after a few weeks of use. I lost 4G and GPS!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
I've almost finished doing the 2 concepts for text notifications.

When they're done ill put them into an explanatory video and move onto the other concepts
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sinbad_NI:
Really really want landscape 'in call' screen.

Seems daft to have to change to portrait in the car dock when someone calls.

Can't be that tricky.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
Agreed on that one.

I wonder if it rotates if it detects a dock though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ATnTdude:
By a similar token, I'd like the option to rotate the homescreen without having to dock it. Basically, I should be able to use every preinstalled app in either landscape or portrait, just like a tablet. 90% of the OS does this, which is why it's jarring when you come across the 10% that's fixed.

And yes, I already use NovaLauncher. Widgetlocket too. TeslaCoil makes some good stuff. However, it should be included by default.

Second, I want better usability in the browser. The quick launch is efficient for the geeks, but horribly unintuitive for everyone else. Imagine handing your phone to a total smartphone Newb with URL set to about:blank. Hilarity will ensue, but no browsing. The URL bar lacks access to many functions in less than 3 taps. A better setup would have the URL on top with the tab button and a "add tab" button. A ribbon on the bottom, like the gmail app, would have forward, reload/stop, bookmarks, desktop mode and misc/settings.

I think I'll suggest that to the guy making ICS Browser.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @rbiter:
You're absolutely right about the browser. But then again the nexus isn't for everybody. That's why we see a lot of noob requests/complaints. And entitlement. ICS stock browser is the best I've used and I thought dolphin was excellent for gingerbread.

Btw, can we get a rom that brushes my teeth for me? :D

My grandma beat me down and took my nexus. Sent from a jitterbug with beats by dre.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ATnTdude:
I so no reason why an OS cannot be both powerful and usable. They key is to make it stupid easy out of the box, but with the options to expand the abilities.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @rbiter:
The iPhone section is over there. :D

My grandma beat me down and took my nexus. Sent from a jitterbug with beats by dre.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
Ok, ive made a concept for quick reply and its pretty good if you ask me :P

I'll upload it sometime this weekend :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] propyls:
Hide soft buttons when running screen savers like alarm clocks to avoid burn in.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rjax:
Improving the multitasking button by allowing nesting could be pretty sweet. For instance, if you have a bunch of gtalk conversations going on, a bunch of browser tabs open, etc. it would be nice to have the option (maybe by tapping a specific part of the card that comes up when pressing the multitasking button) for all the different open conversations or tabs to come up in a card view of their own to make it easier to go right to the one the user wants to go to.

And while I'm thinking of multitasking, I'd like to see one behavior changed. I start on the home screen, use multitasking to switch to App A, then use multitasking to switch to App B, then hit the back button. I'd expect to see App A show up again after hitting the back button, but instead I go straight to the home screen.

Give this a try: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1412752 -- even though it's not what the dev intends, at least on my G-Nex if use Rotation Locker to set rotation to auto-rotate, everything auto-rotates.

I've never even used WebOS and I was thinking similar thoughts. For instance, in the browser it would be nice to switch between tabs by swiping the soft key area left or right.

Really, I think there's just so much that could be done with the soft key area -- a reason for me keeping the G-Nex over getting something like the Rezound. I saw another suggestion on the thread to make the soft key area a scrollable dock of sorts, and I think there's a lot of potential there -- I think like some have mentioned it could take over the lion's share of the notification bar functions, which would be nice since it's generally easier to reach the bottom than the top for me at least. An app could be capable of defining its own soft-key set (i.e. start up the browser, and bookmark and refresh soft keys pop up), and users could pin shortcuts to key programs in the soft key dock.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
That's already on my list ;-)

Also on the list
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] devil snake:
RED is prohibited by laws of most countries!

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Just need quick toggles in notifications bar and a feature that is found in TouchWiz 4 (and CyanogenMod) where you slide your finger across the Notification bar horizontally to control brightness (Better than toggles as when you're under the sun and visibility is ZERO, you don't have to be accurate to adjust brightness by Notification bar sliding as it's always there.. unlike toggles where you have to see which toggle is which)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @rbiter:
I don't have that problem. I know where my toggles are. Hasn't been a problem.

My grandma beat me down and took my nexus. Sent from a jitterbug with beats by dre.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
What is RED?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] David Horn:
I'd like to be able to set up folders in the app drawer - or at the very least specify a list of apps to hide from the drawer. You know, when developers of widgets or live wallpapers insist on creating a shortcut in the app drawer; or simply because I don't want to have to navigate past Adobe Flash Settings every time I open the drawer.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @rbiter:
Just throwing this out there. You know you can make folders with the home screen icons? If you already know, disregard. I just figured it out earlier this week. Still getting used to my new setup, but it is awesome now. Rarely have to go into app drawer now.

My grandma beat me down and took my nexus. Sent from a jitterbug with beats by dre.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
I think they mean in the app drawer have the ability to create folder, or just hide icons.

Sms notification concept video is done. Just need to tweak some timings and find some suitable music then it can be uploaded

I'll keep announcing where im up to on here, twitter (sig) and on my Facebook page (http://goo.gl/kvBFm)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] altimax98:
I really like the concept... be careful... apple may sue lol j/k

Sent From Nexi - The Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
Video should now be uploaded :-) let me know your thoughts
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MultiCulti:
so, the notification options would be the only thing i miss on my phone ... :thumbup:

beamed in through my brain ...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] PolishPauL11:
Check out Lightflow. Doesn't get any better than that app.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MultiCulti:
lol ... sorry my bad ...

i have meant the message notification and quick reply options :D

lightflow i'm using anyway :thumbup:

beamed in through my brain ...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hurricurry:
I really like the idea but it might be to intrusive.

here some ideas i think might be usefull.

Scrolling messages or complete messages in the notification bar. And notifications with profile pics.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
I was contemplating the pushing down of content.

I also had 1 more concept and another piece of animation that I forgot to add. One was quick actions for the contacts and the other was for notifications when in apps. The bigger notifications don't appear when in applications, there's a different type.

I'll upload when I get time :-)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tsunami1609:
Yeah, I agree then that bigger notifications would be great on the homescreen, and even on the lockscreen (especially in the lockscreen). That seems like a nice feature, but would seem complicated for someone here to create/mod. The notification bar would have to determine what's currently running, and then change based on it; I'm just concerned with the feasibility. I really want to see these mods come true.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Royal2000H:
Great concept video!

I like the reply to text feature. I can't recall how many times I'm in the middle of browsing or a game, and I get a text and just want to quickly reply without leaving the app.

I think as people said, to be less intrusive, make it show in the notification bar, then you can pull down the bar and click/swipe to quick respond. For this, I would like the notification bar to show even in games and such. Lots of games hide the notification bar, and I think the OS should be able to make notification bar visible over the game during a notification.

iPhone used to have pop up notifications, and Android was praised for the bar and being less intrusive. Therefore Apple completely copied the notification bar from Android in iOS 4.

So great quick reply options and mark read etc, but better if you had to pull down notifications first.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Krijs:
I think a certain number of features should remain uniform throughout the OS. If you start diversifying based on variables, you are deliberately creating an inconsistency, which in terms of an interface is probably not a very good idea.

A way to circumvent this, as mentioned previously, is to allow this quick reply functionality in the notification dropdown. Only problem then is that if a message is too long to read in the notification, you wouldn't want to quick reply. You could get around this by adding a long-press feature that takes you to the SMS app so you can read the full message I guess.

Great concept though, I'd definitely like something like that.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jameslfc5:
I would like the way the OP has done it along with an option in setting for people like you that don't :)

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What is going to happen with these concepts mate, are you going to develop them? :)