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Auxo Shows Off a Redesigned iOS App Switcher

Some major changes better come to iOS 7...especially when the dev community is creating brilliant stuff like this.

Heck, it's been 73 degrees on my iPhone for 5 years straight now 🙄😱

Live weather sometime soon Apple?
 
smellalot said:
I honestly don't like it.

- You still need to double press the home button
- small preview windows give you no more information than app symbols
- still many steps needed to get to the music controls
- it shows a brightness slider next to an airplay symbol which makes it easy to get confused with the volume slider

Personally I'd prefer quick app switching like on the iPad or like mission control on the Mac.
I also miss a good way to control music which could be done on the slide down menu. Or maybe slide up to show the multitasking menu?
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I think you are right on that but the concept is still solid. I like the innovation and the brightness slider. Apple could learn a lot. It really feels that iOS has stopped innovating and other platforms are surging ahead.
 
This is cool... This is how Apple should have done it.... though i have never tried closing an app on a my "non-jailbrocken" iPhone just to see what happens, but I would think Apple wouldn't give you any warning..

Basically realising "common sense" to the user...

Closing apps at once looks good too.. along iwth live previews (like with Mission Control), But we know Apples not going to do a new task switcher.

However, this could be a future IOS version. But at this stag, no chance ...

No wonder people like to jailbreak. On the other hand,,,,,, one side of the of playing field is, simple design (which Apple does, and does well), while this is the "everything but the kitchen sink" model.


It could also be thought of as (IOS being bombarded with bloatware) kinda thing........ if there is too much going on. *shrugs* And we know Apples not like that.
 
TC03 said:
No, it's true. iOS notifications are FAR more customizable than on Android. With iOS, you can change the following settings for each app:

- The type of notification
- Where it is displayed (lock screen, notification center)
- The sound
- The number of notifications

Etc. No way you can do this with Android. Not for each app.

The iOS notification center is WAY better than Android's.
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I don't know if Android can do this now or not, but you could access Notification Center in full screen apps. That's already an improvement as well.
 
I skimmed through the comments and was surprised that no one pointed out the fact that almost all of that is available in Android:

- Tap the app switcher, it shows the app preview and let's you fling to close apps.
- Drag from the top of the screen and the toggles and sliders come down.

I'll admit that this implementation looks a lot prettier, but it's not like the ideas haven't ever been implemented before.

(Disclaimer: I develop for both iOS and Android devices. I personally only use iOS devices as I prefer them, but once in a while I feel envious about a feature or two I notice on Android devices.)
 
vartanarsen said:
SBSettings for wifi/BT/3G control
Zyphyr for 1 finger up app switcher
Remove Background to get rid of running background.

Hello?????? Am i missing something?
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No doubt. I would have posted this, but now I don't need to. 😉

So, are we going to delete all the stupid posts that have nothing to do with a jailbroken app switcher? 'Oh, Apple > Google', 'No, Google > Apple'. 🙄 Go make your own threads.
 
TC03 said:
No, it's true. iOS notifications are FAR more customizable than on Android. With iOS, you can change the following settings for each app:

- The type of notification
- Where it is displayed (lock screen, notification center)
- The sound
- The number of notifications

Etc. No way you can do this with Android. Not for each app.

The iOS notification center is WAY better than Android's.
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Developers can do all this and much more to customize the alerts their apps display on Android:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html

One of the notifications in our Android app shows a progress bar during uploads/downloads along with the packets sent and received. Tapping it allows the network operation to be canceled. The power LED on the device flashes different colors to indicate if errors ever occur. You can't do anything like that on iOS.

Of course, you're talking about users and I'm talking about developers. I don't think users can customize notifications much... and given how diverse notifications can be on Android, I don't think it'd be possible for Android to have a unified set of notification options like iOS.
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
Developers can do all this and much more to customize the alerts their apps display on Android:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html

One of the notifications in our Android app shows a progress bar during uploads/downloads along with the packets sent and received. Tapping it allows the network operation to be canceled. The power LED on the device flashes different colors to indicate if errors ever occur. You can't do anything like that on iOS.

Of course, you're talking about users and I'm talking about developers. I don't think users can customize notifications much... and given how diverse notifications can be on Android, I don't think it'd be possible for Android to have a unified set of notification options like iOS.
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The funny thing is I have a coworker who is thinking of ditching his Android phone (not sure which but he said he was running stock 4.2) to get an iPhone just because of the notifications. He finds them much more consistent and faster to get to the whatever app is notifying from the lock screen on the iPhone.
 
I fully agree. It has a certain woaah factor at first glance, but it does not add anything really new to the way you manage apps in the background.

redkamel said:
Maybe I am a bit thick, but I think this is silly. It offers little to no functionality, but a lot of complexity. Here is a list of the "features"

I am impressed with the workmanship; very clean. But I'll pass on this.
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In my opinion Apple should implement the swipe-up gesture to launch the app manager (the two-click action is very annoying). That would be a huge step forward. For the Auxo guys: work on REAL icons for folders, my iPhone (and yours) is full of folders and there is no way you can find things without reading the small letter. That is prehistory in GUI.
 
JS82712 said:
Leave it to the jailbreak community to make the iOS experience better, while apple sits on their 100 billion cash doing nothing yet still calling iOS 'the most advanced mobile OS'. Sad world.
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Sums up what I would say... The same feeling that Apple is getting more and more complacent every year.

SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE MAN!😡
 
53kyle said:
I mean like siri and how I am pretty sure apple didn't even give the original app credit for the name
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You do realize that Apple bought Siri, right. Keeping its original name continues to give its original creators the credit they deserve.

Perhaps Apple will do something similar here.
 
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QuarterSwede said:
The funny thing is I have a coworker who is thinking of ditching his Android phone (not sure which but he said he was running stock 4.2) to get an iPhone just because of the notifications. He finds them much more consistent and faster to get to the whatever app is notifying from the lock screen on the iPhone.
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I have an iPhone for personal use. I find that Google's complete hands off approach with apps means you end up with true garbage on their store... plus it's ugly and I have the UI flake out on me on a regular basis. Often during development I'm not certain if things aren't working on account of a bug in my mistake in my code or an issue in the background with the OS.
 
This is basically what Apple needs to do. If Apple doesn't open up iOS some more, I'll consider switching to Android. iOS is nice and stable, but it's just boring and too simple. The honeymoon period is over I want more control and options on my phone OS.
 
portishead said:
This is basically what Apple needs to do. If Apple doesn't open up iOS some more, I'll consider switching to Android. iOS is nice and stable, but it's just boring and too simple. The honeymoon period is over I want more control and options on my phone OS.
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For me it's all about the apps as that's what I'm using 99% of the time. The Apple App Store is still much more superior in it's offerings currently. By that I mean it isn't even close. Of course that could change in the future.
 
irDigital0l said:
Only complaint is the double tap. My iPhone 4's button is basically 50% chance of usability now. Pressing the home button so many times a day for so many years eventually wears it out.

Apparently Apple is already thinking of replacing the home button which makes sense.

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...ce-virtual-keyboards-replace-home-button.html

Hopefully we'll see this as well as haptic, virtual home button.
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this is done on purpose so that you'd have to replace your phone every 2 years

I have a 4S and the home button is beginning to exhibit cracking sounds when I press it. 🙄

apple's business practice is just as nasty as other corporations.
 
I know Sentry from the forum where this all started from so it's great seeing the response he is getting all over the internet

But this is one of the many reasons that I have sold my iPhone 4 and 5, because I don't think Apple is innovating enough. iMessage is nice, but it's not a change from the normal, it's not introducing something new that can help me. Whatsapp/SMS was doing fine, actually BETTER than iMessage, especially in performance.

I think the only thing Apple have really done to show some form of innovation is Photostream. I like the continuous flow of pictures on all my devices. But I feel it's too much "pretty" stuff, and not raw hard technology being implemented.

The task switcher should have been changed a while ago, same with notification centre. There is so much that could have been used for, and I am sure we're going to see it in the upcoming iOS releases.

The most obvious change that Apple need to utilise from this jailbreak and many others is so ****ing simple and will make peoples lives SO much easier: swipe down from screen, swipe the top information bar to the right (weather/stocks section, do we even need it there?), and reveal 3G, WiFi, Lock Rotation and Bluetooth toggles

So simple, but Apple don't want to do this. They make you wade through your settings menu for it

This is why sometimes I don't know who is thinking at Apple
 
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