Five Things for iOS 7 app developers

According to foreign media reports, Apple's "Global Developers Conference" WWDC earlier this year has made it clear that it will release its new mobile operating system iOS 7 this fall, this version of iOS will completely abandon the previous "quasi-Thing" design style and begin to adopt a more practical "flat design ". For developers, this new game rule requires them to redesign their applications based on the iOS 7 user interface, we hope that this will bring consumers a more fresh and more tacit app experience with the same device.

A few days ago, mobile app developer Fueled, UK regional design director with offices in both London and New York, Rob Palmer) I wrote an article on The Next Web in The well-known technology media, and posted my views on several aspects that application developers should pay attention to when developing apps for iOS 7. The details are as follows:

1. Keep it concise

If you have participated in iOS 7 testing or downloaded the existing iOS 7 Developer Preview, you should know that Apple's concise pursuit of the operating system has reached a new level. The overall design concept in iOS 7 is more concise than ever before, and the application icons and interfaces are also designed. That is to say, apps that were previously very suitable for iOS 6 may make iOS 7 users feel too complicated. Of course, I am not saying that you must precisely copy Apple's design style during the application development process, because I think developers still have a lot of free design space.

2. Sense of attention

In iOS 7, Apple makes full use of the excitement of the operating system to provide users with a more compact interface design. In addition, the benefit of hierarchical design is that it can effectively improve the user's efficiency and dynamic sense. Therefore, in order to make your applications fit with the overall design style of iOS 7, application developers need to integrate the idea into the uidesign of the software when designing the application. However, the hierarchical design is not the same as the messy five-Chapter design style. application developers also need to ensure the consistency and openness of the homepage.

3. Interaction

To further enhance the interaction between different native applications, Apple has begun to purposefully reduce the independence between applications. In addition, one of the biggest advantages of iOS 7 is that it can enhance the visibility and accessibility of applications. Therefore, application developers should fully consider the possibility of interaction and association between their applications and other programs in the software development process.

Of course, this may mean that developers need to leave some space for some functionality in the software development process, so that other applications may fill this gap in the future. Alternatively, application developers can fully think about how to fill the functional gaps left by other applications with their own applications.

4. Find yourself

It should be noted that the design style in combination with iOS 7 does not mean that the app personality must be sacrificed at the cost. I believe that some excellent works of designers can survive in these simple, color, and layered application environments. In addition, application developers should not lose themselves in the process of upgrading the application. Instead, they should stick to the path they think is right.

5. Step by step

Although the emergence of a new operating system will make many people excited, it does not necessarily mean that your applications must be changed, simply "making changes for changes" may eventually make you regret it. As the saying goes: "If something isn't bad, you don't need to fix it If it ain't broke, don't fix it )." Otherwise, you may spend a lot of money and take a poor path.

In addition, although the End User Interface of each application is determined by developers and designers, the emergence of the new operating system indeed provides them with a general design direction. Therefore, as an application developer, we may wish to welcome this fall with a more cautious attitude.