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What Ideas From Android Should Apple Look At For iOS 7?

roxxette said:
While none of the home buttons on the iphones i had broke it is common plus you can bet the only trouble onscreen will have is if you break the touch.

Having 3 main options its really a joy, specially one just for app switcher :) i really hate the double tap wich imo is the culprit with unresponsive buttons.
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Yeah but with onscreen buttons you accidentally hit them, they take screen real estate, and just aren't as satisfying as physical feedback. Idk, I think we just need gestures for more things, I also hate using the home button for multitasking or Siri.
 
Beeplance said:
If iOS 7 had settings toggles in notification center which everyone wanted so badly, it will really be copying Android. I mean if you put an iPhone and an Android phone beside each other, and you can swipe down from both phones and toggle settings, if that isn't copying, I don't know what is.:confused:
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I would sue Apple for copying the look and feel of Android.......like Apple sues for rounded corners.
 
irDigital0l said:
People forget that Android also copied a ton of things from iOS (Game Center, Siri, Airplay, etc)
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Whats the Android version of Game Center and Airplay?

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Soundflunky said:
There's probably no one link. You could trudge through years of posts in the hacks section if you feel like it.
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Sorry, what I meant was I was more interested in what features the other poster thought Android borrowed from the Jailbreak community.
 
i would love a ncsettings type thing in notification centre.

i turn wifi off when i leave the house and would love a quick way for that.
also for brightness, silent, and flashlight maybe.

that is the only reason i jb before
 
irDigital0l said:
Apple over the years has taken quite a few ideas from Android. You gotta admit some of them are pretty good.

-Notification Center
-Open apps from lockscreen
-Wireless syncing
-iCloud syncing
-OTA updates
-Tabbed browsing
-Split keyboard
-Facebook & Twitter integration

I've been looking at some Android devices and some of them have really good features that would be good on the iPhone. Hopefully iOS 7 has some of these...

-Widgets (or live icons, tiles, anything more unique than bland icons)
-Expandable, actionable notifications
-Gesture typing
-Multi-Window (better multitasking features)
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Where's quick settings? Not having easy access to WiFi, Bluetooth, BRIGHTNESS is insulting.

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faroZ06 said:
Not having Game Center would be a great feature.
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Lol & News Stand!
 
sers said:
Just 2 things for me:

- toggle settings from the task bar (wifi, Bluetooth, etc.)
- an app/ task killer (I hate having to kill apps one by one)

If Apple did this, I'd be very happy:D
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There is no need to close apps with iOS. Killing apps are a waste of time. I can't remember the last time I closed an app. I have good battery life and it never crashes. Reboot... What's a reboot. iOS is like android is this regard, there are no need for task killers or closing apps.
 
- Toggle settings from the task bar (wifi, Bluetooth, etc.).
- The predictive text above the keyboard like android has, with several suggestions (where you click on the one you want or click space if you want the highlighted).
- Some widgets. I mostly miss my scrollable calendar widget on main screen.
- No limit on the number of apps in a folder.
- Ability to freeze/hide (or uninstall if possible) apps that come preinstalled that you don't want to use/see (News stand, Game center etc.).
 
SlCKB0Y said:
Link?
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I used to be a member of sites like jailbreakme.com amongst others. Coders come up with some amazing things to use for themselves, then gladly pass them along to others. Like the other poster stated, you'd have to dig through thousands of threads to get everything, but there is amazing amount of innovation that occurred in these places way before the big companies implemented those ideas.
 
More gestures, toggles, panoramic backgrounds, slide left to unlock into XX app, app sharing info, better live multitasking view, actual multitasking, battery usage viewer.....so many!
 
kirky29 said:
More gestures, toggles, panoramic backgrounds, slide left to unlock into XX app, app sharing info, better live multitasking view, actual multitasking, battery usage viewer.....so many!
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Why actual multitasking? Just wondering
 
kirky29 said:
Mainly so things actually upload or download in the background, example Spotify could keep downloading music after the background timeout. Same with Dropbox or Facebook uploads etc

:)
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I thought there was an API for that, maybe it's not implemented or nonexistent, hm.
 
zbarvian said:
I thought there was an API for that, maybe it's not implemented or nonexistent, hm.
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There might be! I'm not fully sure, but I know most of the time I use apps like Dropbox or Spotify, if I quit the app after a few minutes it stops whatever it's doing! - I appreciate this saves battery, but sometimes if you're uploading 100 photos you wanna be able to do something else whilst its uploading, right?
 
Pretty much the only thing I miss about Android is sharing between apps. It was super easy to share articles etc. from app X to app Y (say a news app to WhatsApp).
 
G-Force said:
Pretty much the only thing I miss about Android is sharing between apps. It was super easy to share articles etc. from app X to app Y (say a news app to WhatsApp).
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Yea its pretty funny when Apple deems Faceboook/Twitter integration has a HUGE upgrade.
 
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