IOS, you are more and more like android

At the apple Developer Conference on Monday, Apple introduced various new features of iOS 7. Although the release is Coming this fallProgramWe can download the development version to try it out. I wanted to download and update the four-generation iPod Touch, but it does not seem to have been provided, so I can only borrow an ipone 5 test machine from my colleagues to update it to iOS 7. I will be delighted to see these new features without going to "new Android 4.2 feature experience" at the end of last year, but now the experience is the same as that when I read the Keynote: it looks more and more like android. It can only be said that some things are preemptible and should be preemptible.

Refreshing Interface

I'm glad that IOS finally supports dynamic wallpapers. But how does the default screensaver wallpaper feel like it was directly moved to Android? It makes people feel that during development, the Project Manager took the Android mobile phone and said to developers, "it looks like this ." Then the developer made a complete picture.

Although the unlock method is still the classic "slide to unlock", the interface that has been used for iOS 6 is no longer available, that is, sliding from left to right in any area of the screen can be unlocked.

 

IOS 7 also provides a control center to conveniently switch system settings. Unlike Android, iOS 7 is drawn from the bottom, while Android is to draw from the top. In this regard, I feel that IOS is easier to operate.

On this control panel, my favorite is the flashlight switch at the lower left foot, which directly upgrades the iOS device into a practical flashlight.

The message center is still drawn from the top, with simple lines and categories.

 

I don't remember when the design of the interface began to tend to flat design, Google's homepage interface, mailbox, and Microsoft's Windows Metro. Now Apple has joined this ranks, the old metallic taste is discarded and becomes small and fresh. The most attractive is the dynamic background and three-dimensional background, but I don't know whether I can customize the dynamic background.
But what are the points in the upper left corner? Wuziqi, black and white? It turns out to be a mobile phone signal !!!

The Desktop Folder has also been greatly enhanced in iOS 7. It supports storing more applications by page, but does not support nested folders. Of course, Android currently does not.

 

The search is no longer independent of one page, and the screen can be pulled down

 

Application function improvement

At the conference, Apple demonstrated the features and interface changes of multiple built-in iOS 7 apps. One of my favorite ones is that the changes in weather apps are no longer limited to temperature and numbers, more vivid images show local weather. If you sort multiple addresses by the latitude of the time zone, a rainbow may appear. Android does not have its own weather system. However, many weather applications in the app store can provide the same functions. Some mobile phone manufacturers also define their own weather applications. For example, I used HTC Aria three years ago to have dynamic weather.

 

If the mobile phone system is compared to the son, IOS is the son of apple, Android is the son of Google. Who is the daughter? The two daughters are the two browsers safari and chrome. In iOS 7, safari has also made a big change: the address bar will be scaled down, and functional Jian will automatically hide it when it is not needed to provide a larger space for reading. Multi-tag switching is also more stereoscopic, like Windows's Aero flip, but because all pages can be displayed on one screen, switching must be more effective and fast than before.

Cameras and albums

Most iPhone users may be playing games and taking photos. The biggest change in iOS 7 camera is the filter function, which makes taking pictures more fan and further suppresses card machines.

 

Album provides many convenient functions. In previous albums, thousands or even hundreds of photos could not be found in a pile. Now, the album has a category function, which can be categorized by time and address. The mobile phone is long pressed on a small photo. You can also see the large thumbnail, And the thumbnail of The moving finger will also move and change.

Multi-task

For battery reasons, IOS does not support multi-task functions, even if it looks like a multi-task interface, it is more like a recently used list. However, Apple said at the press conference that the new iOS 7 will truly implement multi-task functions. The multitasking interface also becomes a card form, and the application is also closed through gestures. It seems that this has become an industry standard.

 

There are many other updates. For example, iOS 7 also supports airdrop for wireless photo sharing. At the Conference, NFC, which was also used to laugh at Android phones, needs to be touched before being transmitted. In general, iOS 7 updates are not new for people who have been using Android. For those who have been using the iPhone, there may be new things, it takes time to adapt and change.

From the user's point of view, iOS 7's change may be very appropriate. However, for developers, the iOS platform will provide a better development and release environment than Android. The new iOS 7 provides thousands of new APIs, and real multitasking allows developers to complete more desired functions. Although the differences between the two are narrowing down from the interface, the development is far from a full platform release.

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