***Essential Android Apps - ICS 4.0 Edition***

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The old apps thread is full of all sorts of rubbish and with ICS now out, a new one is surely a good idea.

Post away! :cool:
 
I think people are missing the point of this thread.

I believe (but I could be wrong) that this thread is for applications that are designed with ICS in mind and abide to the new UI principle? - the new Gmail and music apps are a good example of this (and also the new BBC app which can be seen inside the Galaxy Nexus thread).....
 
Chiz said:
I think people are missing the point of this thread.

I believe (but I could be wrong) that this thread is for applications that are designed with ICS in mind and abide to the new UI principle? - the new Gmail and music apps are a good example of this (and also the new BBC app which can be seen inside the Galaxy Nexus thread).....
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Yes, that's the idea, but it will no doubt just become a general apps thread over time as all devices get ICS.
 
Chiz said:
I think people are missing the point of this thread.

I believe (but I could be wrong) that this thread is for applications that are designed with ICS in mind and abide to the new UI principle? - the new Gmail and music apps are a good example of this (and also the new BBC app which can be seen inside the Galaxy Nexus thread).....
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The BBC news app looks identical to me? (left/right swipe UI is the same, the only difference is html5 vids?)

The only different in ICS is the unification of Honeycomb and Gingerbread so devs don't need two separate apps on the market, Like Google Body.

Maybe rename the 'Essential Honeycomb apps' thread to Honeycomb/ICS?
 
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Chiz said:
I think people are missing the point of this thread.

I believe (but I could be wrong) that this thread is for applications that are designed with ICS in mind and abide to the new UI principle? - the new Gmail and music apps are a good example of this (and also the new BBC app which can be seen inside the Galaxy Nexus thread).....
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There will be few and far between that have just been designed for Android 4.0. The vast majority of apps will continue to look the same and they will have had cosmetic changes in order for them to work on 4.0.
 
sarge78 said:
Maybe rename the 'Essential Honeycomb apps' thread to Honeycomb/ICS?
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There is little point in doing that because there will still be apps that are designed to run purely on tablets because of the screen size/resolution. It will be interesting to see what will happen to those. We’ll most probably have to wait for Jelly Bean to do that.
 
simulatorman said:
There will be few and far between that have just been designed for Android 4.0. The vast majority of apps will continue to look the same and they will have had cosmetic changes in order for them to work on 4.0.
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The other thread is cluttered and nobody would ever read through it, a lot of people have got Android phones since then, and various apps may change and improve now ICS is out as well. A lot of them are still very ugly. :p
 
simulatorman said:
There will be few and far between that have just been designed for Android 4.0. The vast majority of apps will continue to look the same and they will have had cosmetic changes in order for them to work on 4.0.
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That's the whole point of this thread.

To distinguish new apps (few and far between as you correctly pointed out) that have been designed with 4.0 in mind. Apps that make the most of the UI and follow the same principles. We're not looking for the vast majority of apps that look the same but the minority that don't and have been improved.

Also to allow people with cutting edge phones and the latest OS to view apps made specifically for their devices.

I'm sure you know exactly what we mean tbf.
 
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Robbo said:
The other thread is cluttered and nobody would ever read through it, a lot of people have got Android phones since then, and various apps may change and improve now ICS is out as well. A lot of them are still very ugly. :p
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This thread won't be cluttered because the majority of essential apps will go into the other thread. The purpose of Android 4.0 is not to spurn a new generation of apps but to merge two strands of the Android OS.
 
Chiz said:
I think people are missing the point of this thread.

I believe (but I could be wrong) that this thread is for applications that are designed with ICS in mind and abide to the new UI principle? - the new Gmail and music apps are a good example of this (and also the new BBC app which can be seen inside the Galaxy Nexus thread).....
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Well good luck finding many ICS designed apps because quite frankly there is hardly any out because this device just came out last week
 
Chiz said:
That's the whole point of this thread.

To distinguish new apps (few and far between as you correctly pointed out) that have been designed with 4.0 in mind. Apps that make the most of the UI and follow the same principles. We're not looking for the vast majority of apps that look the same but the minority that don't and have been improved.

Also to allow people with cutting edge phones and the latest OS to view apps made specifically for their devices.

I'm sure you know exactly what we mean tbf.
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At least someone understands! :p

jonneymendoza said:
Well good luck finding many ICS designed apps because quite frankly there is hardly any out because this device just came out last week
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For a 'developer', you don't seem to know very much...
 
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