Found Footage: Expose-esque UI for iPhone app management
Oh, so tempting. Engadget and Slashgear link to this video from our friend Steven Troughton-Smith: Exposé-style app management running on a jailbroken iPhone. No, you can't download it anywhere yet; no, we don't know when it will be ready for prime time and available on the Cydia repo; no, we don't expect Apple to have anything similar in the pipeline for vanilla iPhone use.
But wouldn't it be nice?
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Oh, so tempting. Engadget and Slashgear link to this video from our friend Steven Troughton-Smith: Exposé-style app management...
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This program is in the Cydia store - it's called Orbit.
October 19 2009 at 12:27 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYou can try it out for free with the online demo they posted:
http://bit.ly/exposeiphonedemo
The real solution to all of this has been tried and proven a long time ago. It works with 9, 11 or 50 pages of applications. It also works without any app tagging.
Why is no one asking for the implementation of FOLDERS on the iPhone?
I like it!
Rather than an icon, what if it were activated by swiping left or right in the dock?
Yet another reason Apple needs to let go of their iron-fisted control of the platform -- and yet another reason I'm selling my 3GS and moving to Android.
October 15 2009 at 8:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyi would rather have expose to display all open apps... whenever apple decides to allow for real multi-tasking.
October 15 2009 at 8:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyNice concept, I don't think I could see myself using this though.
I think improving the 'spotlight' search will be where the advancements will come, but it'll sure be interesting to see where Apple goes with app finding/launching improvements.
What improvements are you thinking of? I am at 10 pages of apps and Spotlight works excellent for launching them. I just wish I could triple press the home button to get to it, rather than press once, wait, press again (my double tap is for the iPod app)
October 15 2009 at 11:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOne idea would be tagging of apps, in allowing developers to tag their applications. I think I remember reading that this is one thing apple have started asking developers to do when submitting apps.
So you could search for 'games' in spotlight and you'd get a list of games. Or 'twitter' and get a list of all the twitter clients.
I can see this being useful when you have them moments that you want to launch that app that you can't seem to remember the name of, but you remember it's a twitter client so you just search 'twitter'.
All of these are useless to me as I use all 11 pages... This only shows you 9... If they implement it with an additional swipe... Talk about a waste of time...
Love the fact that in the ocean observations video the time is "13.37". Haha. The pages load much faster in that video... But it's a concept video... Where the one in this article is actually running... Though it takes WAYYY too long to load all the pages... It's gotta be instantaneous to be usable.
I discovered that if you touch an apps icon until it giggles, you can hit the little (x) that shows up in the top left corner, and it deletes the app from the phone.
Seems like way too much effort to me. Flicking through the pages is faster than looking at thumbnails and trying to decide if that's the page you want or not. Categories would make more sense than this implementation.
October 15 2009 at 7:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIf you have n screens and don't change them often, it's 2 clicks to get to any of them, where as the worst case now is n-1.
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