You can download Elixir 2 for the pull down widget functionality and it has the battery percentage in the statusbar as well, though as you say it is in addition to the regular battery indicator.
CM9 has that option so I would imagine CM10 will have it as well. You can also add a persistent Search button on the bottom if that's your thing. Not that you'll need it with the up gesture on Jelly Bean for Google Now.
Not sure why you were modded down but one of the most striking differences between my Xoom running ICS and my iPad is the superior fonts on the Xoom. They just look clearer and I don't think that can fully be explained by the superior display resolution.
The quality of Apple's touchpads have done more to sell me on their stuff than anything else. The discrete models work excellently on Android as well enabling all the multi-touch goodness and the smoothness stomps anything else even the touchpad on my brother's Transformer Prime.
True. I got lazy on the tablet keyboard but was going to sub class to a blue object then instantiate with the text etc. Oh well. It was just an illustration.
Heh. If you want to get fancy, I could chain mine together into a one liner. I was just showing the guy one purpose for OOC. personally, I use object oriented code only when really necessary usually for some kind of persistence otherwise I'm with you.
Say you're coding a graphical interface and you want two buttons for okay and cancel. They both need to be blue. The toolkit yours using will have an object called Button that has the basic characteristics of what a button its, e.g., a clickable icon that does something. You sub class this Button and give it the specifics.
Button okay = new Button;
Button cancel = new Button;
You now have two objects of type Button. Next you get specific.
okay.onClick(proceed());
cancel.onClick(abort());
okay.color("00f");
cancel.color("00f");
This is terrible pseudocode butyou get the idea. instead of having to code buttons from scratch, you sub class them and only add what you need. typing on a tablet so I hope I haven't been unclear.
True, Android has a ways to go before it is ready for a mouse/keyboard. Although, I do have a Debian chroot and even in that, Midori chokes on about the fifth tab when I'm trying to do "real work" and I don't have any reason to believe that it would run any better "natively" as the only difference is it's outputting to vnc rather than the actual screen which doesn't effect the running speed of the app in the slightest. I really think the CPU and memory bandwidth is what's holding it back and we have a while before that catches up to anything with the words Intel and Core in the name.
But, every time I tried to download it, it prompted me for what program to open it in.
That's really just an implementation detail of whatever browser you're using. I've never had this issue and I can't exactly tell you why other than the fact that none of my Android devices use a stock ROM. I do know that the Opera Mobile browser on Android will allow you to download anything you want.
But you can't code for Android on an Android device
I do miss Maemo as an operating system but Android works well enough for a media player.
I'm working on a media player for Android right now that is basically a clone of XMMS/winAMP. Basically a straight up player that uses the file system without all of the "Library" bullshit and has an interface almost just like the aforementioned programs. It's coming along quite nicely and I'll probably put it up on the market pretty soon. I'm releasing it as open source but if you have any suggestions, or reasoning why Maemo has a superior media experience than Android, I'm all ears and would be happy to incorporate good ideas.
The issue with mobile device as dockable PC is pretty simple. On a phone or tablet with a touch screen, you don't realize all of the little delays built into the system masked by the UI but when you hook your kit up to a mouse and keyboard, expectations change. And the ugly truth is, ARM just can't keep up. I've hooked my Xoom to a dock many times in an attempt to emulate a real workflow and it just isn't happening. And I've tried everything. turning off animations, over clocking, different apps, chroot. It just doesn't have the power. People hated net books for a reason and it wasn't just the small size. When you click something or open a tab, you expect it to happen now. in order for ARM to even be a contender, it needs to be twice as fast as it is and by the time that happens, traditional PCs will have moved on again. And I say this as a once champion of ARM as I saw it as a chance to break away from the Windows hegemony but I've tried and this isn't it.
Is there something particularly non free about Android that is sticking in your craw? My Android devices run android that was compiled from source from AOSP and they all have unlocked boot loaders. The only closed drivers are for the GPU and cameras but guess what, you can forget about open drivers for any ARM GPU that I know of even the raspberry pi is closed. So what's your beef with Android?
in my own family we've gone through 3 Android phones so far that couldn't be updated and we aren't even a smartphone heavy family, if we went through 3 in 2 years i can imagine how many more are sitting in sock drawers right now because they can't run the new version.
That's why for the premium Android experience I always suggest people buy the Nexus device. I have a Nexus S and a Galaxy Nexus and both have the latest Android and have been guaranteed to get the jelly bean treatment. As far as I know the Galaxy Nexus is available for all major US carriers as well.
Works perfectly on my Android phone. As a matter of fact, there is a little development environment that caters to just that sort of thing in addition to Python, Perl, PHP, Beanshell, and so on.
I don't necessarily agree or disagree with your interpretation of events but the fact that the GP got modded so highly for what amounted to a personal attack was what I had a problem with. By your tone (Ok, fine...) in the first sentence, you seem to be offering some kind of tacit approval. Sad.
With modern production techniques, very few industries aren't putting out higher quality products so I don't see how that is all that great of a compliment.
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You can download Elixir 2 for the pull down widget functionality and it has the battery percentage in the statusbar as well, though as you say it is in addition to the regular battery indicator.
CM9 has that option so I would imagine CM10 will have it as well. You can also add a persistent Search button on the bottom if that's your thing. Not that you'll need it with the up gesture on Jelly Bean for Google Now.
Not sure why you were modded down but one of the most striking differences between my Xoom running ICS and my iPad is the superior fonts on the Xoom. They just look clearer and I don't think that can fully be explained by the superior display resolution.
...I'm not sure if the judge should be moderated +1,000,000 Funny of -1,000,000 Flamebait. Either way, this oughta be good.
The quality of Apple's touchpads have done more to sell me on their stuff than anything else. The discrete models work excellently on Android as well enabling all the multi-touch goodness and the smoothness stomps anything else even the touchpad on my brother's Transformer Prime.
Shut up, pissant.
True. I got lazy on the tablet keyboard but was going to sub class to a blue object then instantiate with the text etc. Oh well. It was just an illustration.
Heh. If you want to get fancy, I could chain mine together into a one liner. I was just showing the guy one purpose for OOC. personally, I use object oriented code only when really necessary usually for some kind of persistence otherwise I'm with you.
Silverlight got stomped by Flash.
Say you're coding a graphical interface and you want two buttons for okay and cancel. They both need to be blue. The toolkit yours using will have an object called Button that has the basic characteristics of what a button its, e.g., a clickable icon that does something. You sub class this Button and give it the specifics.
Button okay = new Button;
Button cancel = new Button;
You now have two objects of type Button. Next you get specific.
okay.onClick(proceed());
cancel.onClick(abort());
okay.color("00f");
cancel.color("00f");
This is terrible pseudocode butyou get the idea. instead of having to code buttons from scratch, you sub class them and only add what you need. typing on a tablet so I hope I haven't been unclear.
Challenge accepted
True, Android has a ways to go before it is ready for a mouse/keyboard. Although, I do have a Debian chroot and even in that, Midori chokes on about the fifth tab when I'm trying to do "real work" and I don't have any reason to believe that it would run any better "natively" as the only difference is it's outputting to vnc rather than the actual screen which doesn't effect the running speed of the app in the slightest. I really think the CPU and memory bandwidth is what's holding it back and we have a while before that catches up to anything with the words Intel and Core in the name.
But, every time I tried to download it, it prompted me for what program to open it in.
That's really just an implementation detail of whatever browser you're using. I've never had this issue and I can't exactly tell you why other than the fact that none of my Android devices use a stock ROM. I do know that the Opera Mobile browser on Android will allow you to download anything you want.
But you can't code for Android on an Android device
This is not true.
I do miss Maemo as an operating system but Android works well enough for a media player.
I'm working on a media player for Android right now that is basically a clone of XMMS/winAMP. Basically a straight up player that uses the file system without all of the "Library" bullshit and has an interface almost just like the aforementioned programs. It's coming along quite nicely and I'll probably put it up on the market pretty soon. I'm releasing it as open source but if you have any suggestions, or reasoning why Maemo has a superior media experience than Android, I'm all ears and would be happy to incorporate good ideas.
The issue with mobile device as dockable PC is pretty simple. On a phone or tablet with a touch screen, you don't realize all of the little delays built into the system masked by the UI but when you hook your kit up to a mouse and keyboard, expectations change. And the ugly truth is, ARM just can't keep up. I've hooked my Xoom to a dock many times in an attempt to emulate a real workflow and it just isn't happening. And I've tried everything. turning off animations, over clocking, different apps, chroot. It just doesn't have the power. People hated net books for a reason and it wasn't just the small size. When you click something or open a tab, you expect it to happen now. in order for ARM to even be a contender, it needs to be twice as fast as it is and by the time that happens, traditional PCs will have moved on again. And I say this as a once champion of ARM as I saw it as a chance to break away from the Windows hegemony but I've tried and this isn't it.
-- Sent from my Xoom.
I just tested your theory in Firefox on Ubuntu 12.04 and neither of what are saying happened. maybe Firefox isn't your problem.
Is there something particularly non free about Android that is sticking in your craw? My Android devices run android that was compiled from source from AOSP and they all have unlocked boot loaders. The only closed drivers are for the GPU and cameras but guess what, you can forget about open drivers for any ARM GPU that I know of even the raspberry pi is closed. So what's your beef with Android?
in my own family we've gone through 3 Android phones so far that couldn't be updated and we aren't even a smartphone heavy family, if we went through 3 in 2 years i can imagine how many more are sitting in sock drawers right now because they can't run the new version.
That's why for the premium Android experience I always suggest people buy the Nexus device. I have a Nexus S and a Galaxy Nexus and both have the latest Android and have been guaranteed to get the jelly bean treatment. As far as I know the Galaxy Nexus is available for all major US carriers as well.
Proof?
Bring it, motherfucker.
Works perfectly on my Android phone. As a matter of fact, there is a little development environment that caters to just that sort of thing in addition to Python, Perl, PHP, Beanshell, and so on.
I don't necessarily agree or disagree with your interpretation of events but the fact that the GP got modded so highly for what amounted to a personal attack was what I had a problem with. By your tone (Ok, fine...) in the first sentence, you seem to be offering some kind of tacit approval. Sad.
That's no excuse. If the judge tells you you can't "innovate" by tying new products to legacy monopoly products then you "innovate" elsewhere.
With modern production techniques, very few industries aren't putting out higher quality products so I don't see how that is all that great of a compliment.
I think I'll see this happen to Google
Any particular reason or just a vague sense of "Big = Bad"?