[Android Software Development] Munkee915:
Loaded and tested the apps. Making great progress! Lots of fixes. I updated my last list w/ my findings. Left a few of the same things on there as before.

Launcher:

1. Seems to take longer to load than before. Took me almost a minute sometimes from a cold start.

2. When switching between launcher and app drawer, it would be better to slide transition between the 2. Currently the screen goes black before the other slides in from the side

3. Scrolling is much better. Could be smoother but thats just me :)

My Suggestions:

1. SMS, email, and missed calls live tiles. Also contacts and FB if possible.

2. Option for a 1x2 (vertical) tile

3. Animations when selecting a tile (fade out or fly out, like Launcher 7)

4. Option to hide the notification bar, or implement a WP7 style bar would really help. Keeping the stock Android bar kinda breaks the flow of the look.

5. program indexing/jump list (like Mango update or Launcher 7)

6. "Tile Folders" or a sub-menu like nailik0110 posted would be awesome!

Contacts:

1. Who is this dude on the top of my contacts? lol

2. Facebook issue. I read your fix and it does work but would be annoying to have to uninstall and reinstall FB app every time I update this app.

3. Doesnt seem to recognize Facebook prompted changes. Ex, if my FB app syncs my contacts and updates a pic or an email addy, it doesnt show up in contacts app. it does recognize manual updates though.

4. Adding a contact doesnt save to gmail contacts, just a phone contact. This is kind of big for me as i flash my phone often and rely on gmail to resync my contacts.

5. "people" header doesnt scroll smoothly between screens. it stutters back and forth as you slide between screens.

6. Scrolling is much better. Still needs a bit of smoothing IMO but minor issue

Suggestions:

1. Favorites list or move "starred" contacts to the top?

2. Option to hide the android notification bar to keep the look smooth

3. Would be nice if the tile colors and theme matched the colors chosen in the launcher

Zune/Music player:

1. Videos option is gone. im guessing its removed until it works?

2. Swiping is better, still very hard to access "new" screen from home UI

3. Upper banner still buggy. Doesnt follow lower screens, doesnt swipe left to right, clicking artists sometimes opens albums, albums sometimes open songs, still cant click on Songs or Playlists from upper banner

4. Vertical scrolling seems really buggy in album track list (Music->Albums->select an album->try to vertical scroll)

5.Album select doesnt work after selecting an artist (Music->Artist->Albums come up first but cant click anything)

Suggestions:

1. indexing/jump list

2. Playlist support (creating, adding, ect)

3. History works better now. Would be better if it was on a single screen (see MS Mango update demo @ 3:50 in)

4. Theme match to launcher selected settings

5. Add podcasts?

6. A music control widget that can integrate to a home tile(possibly with live fanart? would be really cool)

7. Possibly integrate other music services like pandora/last.fm ect?

You guys are making great progress. Still using the contact app daily. Launcher is almost there. Really excited to see the zune app come along.