Android Gingerbread style tweaks revealed by way of new Maps version?
Seems that reaching into the innards of the latest version of Google Maps for Android and changing the API level from 8 ( Froyo ) to 9 ( Gingerbread ) changes the UI a bit, as you can see above. What we know today is on the left, and the right side represents the tweaks that we presume will match up with the changes Google has made systemwide in Gingerbread, a build that we now believe will likely be Android 2.3 at retail.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: api, changelog, dialog, duarte, froyo, google-maps, googlemaps, increment, Job, number-instead, tweaks
Confirmed: Palm’s Matias Duarte joins Google as User Experience Director for Android
We'd heard rumors this morning that webOS design guru Matias Duarte had left Palm for Google , but now we've got it straight from Mountain View: Mr. Duarte is the new User Experience Director for Android
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: breaking-news, design, designers, duarte, matias, matias-duarte, matiasduarte, mountain, palm, printers, result, Transition, user, userexperience, view
webOS design mastermind Matias Duarte leaves Palm… and could be headed to Google
According to a report filed over at All Things D , Matias Duarte -- the man considered to be the driving force behind the user interface of webOS -- has left Palm, and may very well be headed to Google. Duarte held the title of Senior Director of Human Interface and User Experience, and before working his magic at Palm, was one of the hands that touched the Sidekick and Helio UIs
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: behind-the-user, duarte, experience, force, google-duarte, human-interface, lengths, matias-duarte, matiasduarte, rumblings, senior-director, sidekick