Sounds like excuses to me. Explain to me how your application is different to a game when it comes to user interface and explain how it would be easier in IOS to run native? They both have their challenges and it just sounds to me like you feel it would be easier to do nothing and just complain about it. If you have a compelling app all those other things don't matter and can be overcome. This really isn't a Honeycomb or tablet issue either. Contact someone who has done something similar as far as UI for native apps and move forward.
None of this stuff is easy, and at the same time if you really want to do it, it isn't that hard either.
This really should be about Honeycomb apps rather then tablet apps. On the Honeycomb side I would that Honeycomb is dead and until it's features are merged with the Android fork there won't be a lot of apps taking advantage of it's features.
As far as tablet optimized apps I haven't really seen a need for them. I own a Droid X running Android 2.3 and a Nook Color running CyanogenMod7 which is Android 2.3. I have tried Honeycomb on the Nook Color. Didn't like it and then tried the CyanogenMod and loved it. The Nook Color OC'd to 1 ghz is a great color tablet. I have not had any need to look for tablet specific applications, because all of the applications that I use work just fine on the Nook Color's screen. Most applications I use take advantage of the extra screen space. Games that just scale up work just fine and still look great.
So this to me is a complete non-issue and probably reflects more on the way IOS was written for specific screen sizes and Android wasn't.
A bigger issue and a tough one is apps that optimize for Landscape mode. I prefer to use my tablet in portrait mode, only rotating it to landscape when browsing things that are wide or when playing games. Most apps are geared for portrait mode and it makes sense. When looking at a list of things, most web pages, and reading books, portrait works better for me.
I also really can't think of an application that I use on Android that doesn't work well in landscape mode on the tablet. This is the mode that apps could take more advantage of the screen space available. The downside is I personally don't want apps that only work in landscape or work completely different in landscape.
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Sounds like excuses to me. Explain to me how your application is different to a game when it comes to user interface and explain how it would be easier in IOS to run native? They both have their challenges and it just sounds to me like you feel it would be easier to do nothing and just complain about it. If you have a compelling app all those other things don't matter and can be overcome. This really isn't a Honeycomb or tablet issue either. Contact someone who has done something similar as far as UI for native apps and move forward.
None of this stuff is easy, and at the same time if you really want to do it, it isn't that hard either.
This really should be about Honeycomb apps rather then tablet apps. On the Honeycomb side I would that Honeycomb is dead and until it's features are merged with the Android fork there won't be a lot of apps taking advantage of it's features.
As far as tablet optimized apps I haven't really seen a need for them. I own a Droid X running Android 2.3 and a Nook Color running CyanogenMod7 which is Android 2.3. I have tried Honeycomb on the Nook Color. Didn't like it and then tried the CyanogenMod and loved it. The Nook Color OC'd to 1 ghz is a great color tablet. I have not had any need to look for tablet specific applications, because all of the applications that I use work just fine on the Nook Color's screen. Most applications I use take advantage of the extra screen space. Games that just scale up work just fine and still look great.
So this to me is a complete non-issue and probably reflects more on the way IOS was written for specific screen sizes and Android wasn't.
A bigger issue and a tough one is apps that optimize for Landscape mode. I prefer to use my tablet in portrait mode, only rotating it to landscape when browsing things that are wide or when playing games. Most apps are geared for portrait mode and it makes sense. When looking at a list of things, most web pages, and reading books, portrait works better for me.
I also really can't think of an application that I use on Android that doesn't work well in landscape mode on the tablet. This is the mode that apps could take more advantage of the screen space available. The downside is I personally don't want apps that only work in landscape or work completely different in landscape.
This is a windows solution, and it works great. I have stopped using all clients and just use GMail on the web. I have archived all my Eudora/Thunderbird archives into MailStore. I now have one place to search all my e-mails, since 1999. http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home.aspx