Horizontal evaluation: Android vs. iPhone application interface comparison

The advantages and disadvantages of Android and iPhone OS are still under discussion, but we may wish to make a small evaluation of these two platforms from the perspective of development experience on the application interface.

 
Interface Layout Comparison Between Android and iPhone applications

Status Bar:

The Status Bar of Android and iPhone are located at the top of the screen. The reason is that the human visual process is from top to bottom.

The Status Bar of Android has the function of notification. When the application has a new notification, the notification icon is displayed on the left side of the status bar and slides down to view the notification details.

The status bar of the iPhone contains the display of the activity status. For example, if a process is running, a rotating animation is displayed here, but you cannot perform any operations on the animation. In addition, when you are browsing, tapping the iPhone status bar can also play a very fast role. I personally think that the Android notification system has done a good job, and it seems that Windows Phone7 has also followed this design.

Title bar:

Android is a pure UI title bar, and there is generally no operation response here. The title bar of the iPhone plays a more role in navigation. Here, you can quickly move the Android app back using the entity button) or perform some operations on this interface. In addition, when you use the iPhone to go down to the interface content, double-clicking the title also plays a very fast and top role.

Tab bar:

The tag bar of Android is under the title of the interface. Generally, there are a maximum of five items. On the native platform interface, the visual effect is ugly. The tag bar of the iPhone is clearly located at the bottom of the screen, and is also at most 5. Compared with Android, the iPhone can intelligently process the status bar. All labels of the displayed icon and text are of the same width and black background. When a tag is selected, its background fades out and the image in the tag Becomes brighter. If the tag bar of an application contains more than five tags, the iPhone OS displays four of them and automatically displays "more tags" at 5th ".

Android designers believe that labels should be seen first, and the menu item of the menu key cannot be blocked. IPhone designers believe that labels are used to switch different views of the current application and should be more easily pressed, so they are chosen at the bottom of the screen. Therefore, I have no worries about the so-called single-host situation design, because the above two platforms cannot be well supported.

Toolbar:

The toolbar of Android is generally located at the bottom of the screen, usually three buttons. Considering the validity of clickable domains, it is generally not recommended to have more than five domain names. The toolbar of the iPhone is in the same position as the tab bar, that is, the tab bar does not coexist with the toolbar, either at the bottom of the screen, or in the tab bar.

To be honest, I am not designing a new mobile phone platform, and our company will not go over the new "XXX phone ". Therefore, since I am currently standing only at this height, I have no reason to "innovate" the above four points for my application interface ".
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