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Google Apps for iOS to Switch to UIKit After Decade of Material Design

Smart move, Google! It will make the Google experience on Apple devices feel even more natural and native, should reduce the app package size, and improve performance further.

Now if only Dropbox would learn this lesson. Their apps have been drifting further from pure native for the past few years, especially on macOS, and it's really annoying.
 
great, now do macOS Gmail app while you're at it will ya? should be easy to use the iPad-to-macOS tooling.
 
When does this go live? Or will each app just eventually get the redesign at it's own time.
 
Why don’t they just wait a year for SwiftUI to get better??? Going to old UIKit.. Apple is going to kill Obj-C and UIKit in 2-3 years time
 
The YouTube app on iOS is a disaster. The layout is counter-intuitive, you can't do something as simple as scrolling through comments while writing one, the lack of background playback is infuriating.
 
Unregistered 4U said:
It’s happening. Google’s looking for an exit out of producing the Android OS anymore as they’re bored with it. And, if they can help users to easily set up their iOS devices with Google’s Tools, well, supporting a suite of apps is much easier than supporting an entire OS and all the varieties of hardware it is expected to run on.
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lol, they are investing billions in their own silicon for the pixel. Getting out of Android is not anything close to what they are trying to do. Why even make stuff up this preposterous?
 
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Serban55 said:
Better late than never google, as usual
But i still love you for not having anti-trust on ios monopol
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Lol. However, they do have the market share. If anyone is going to ever be considered a monopoly it's going to be Alphabet/Google/Android
 
"began a deep evaluation of what it means to build a hallmark Google experience on Apple platforms by critically evaluating the space of "utility" vs key brand moments, and the components needed to achieve either."

Buzzword speak for trying to use native interfaces while still keeping Google apps looking somewhat similar across platforms.
 
Google apps have always looked ugly on iOS, but the real shocker is how even the ugliest iOS Google apps are still miles better looking than anything Google makes itself on Android...
 
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Well it’s about effing time!!! 🤬 I absolutely despise Google apps because of their bloated sizes and absolutely garbage UIs.

I’m still on iOS 12.x, so I won’t see these changes, if they ever actually come (I’ll believe it when it has happened, not when it’s just an announcement).

I’m also planning to move away from GMail, which is the only Google thing I use anymore. Ultimately, this change may never filter down to my own usage even if they follow through.

To all developers everywhere: USE NATIVE APIs!!
 
MacinMan said:
I'll have to wait and see what the UIKit changes bring to google's apps. I like the universal look cross platforms, so it's easier to use. However, I am open for changes and a more native interface as long as it will help long term instead of bring more confusion. I feel that only time will tell here.
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You are using the wrong platforms.
 
mosh.jinton said:
Really interesting. I'm a mobile developer currently designing an app for Android and iOS which we're building with Flutter. My background is Android and I've not used iOS regularly since before Material Design was a thing. My default approach for app design is very Material, so I'd be interested if anyone knows good examples of iPhone apps which keep something of Material Design but are also consistent with iOS Human Interface Guidelines are therefore feel 'native'?
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The only legitimate way of building a native app is by building it natively.
 
The arrogance of some of these big software companies is staggering.

I refer not only to the arrogance of assuming that the rest of the world shares your notions of good UI, but also of refusing to learn from older and wiser people who made the same mistake before you.

Microsoft learned their lesson in the mid-’90s with the design of Office for the Mac. 23 years later, Google finally comes to the same realization: namely, that users of one operating system don't want their apps to look and behave like apps on another OS.

(I leave aside the question of whether current Apple UI is good.)
 
dba415 said:
lol, they are investing billions in their own silicon for the pixel. Getting out of Android is not anything close to what they are trying to do. Why even make stuff up this preposterous?
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For the Pixel, exclusively? Or, as a step in preparation to take their Chromebooks to places other systems in its class can’t go?

I mean, it’s not like there’s not another company that recently matured a technology in cellular phones only to then deploy it to non-cellphone devices… Even if they decided to stick with Pixel hardware, that doesn’t say anything about “Android”. Google HAS another OS they’re maturing, you know.
 
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It takes a decade for Google to learn not to force the Material Deisgn on iOS.

How long will it take Apple to learn not for force the iOS design on macOS?
 
orbital~debris said:
I seriously hope this change of tack means Google will re-write their YouTube app for tvOS and make it work like Apple's TV app.
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What is it about Apple TV app that you want to see? I use YouTube on primarily on my Apple TV and I watch more YouTube videos on my TV than anything else. I don't use the Apple TV app much, so I don't know what is there that YouTube is missing.
 
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