New iOS UI Concepts: Mission Control, Dynamic Notification Badges & More
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New iOS UI Concepts: Mission Control, Dynamic Notification Badges & More
With Apple widely expected to unveil the next generation operating system - iOS 6 at the WWDC 2012 Keynote on Monday, folks at MacStories point us to this ...
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Nice! Mission control looks awesome!
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I'd be surprised if anyone makes this 'mission control' thing, because it's impossible/meaningless on iOS.
iOS apps don't run in the background, they halt themselves and then resume. So if an app's been in the background for more than three seconds, you can't grab its window because it doesn't have one - it's not running. The only thing you can go on is a 'screenshot' it saves that serves as a loading screen while the app is restarted. If the app's well-written, it ends up looking exactly like the screenshot, and loads itself before you've had time to touch the screen. If you own an iPhone, you'll know just how few apps manage that.
When they resume they may end up looking like they do in their screenshot, or they may not. This depends on the app, what you're doing with the app, an what other apps you've been using have done with your memory. Some apps resume as if they were restarted (most games), some apps deliberately resume differently than how you left them if there's been notifications (Messages).
In short, the screenshots bear only a passing resemblance to what the app's doing, and can't be relied on to be accurate. If the 'screenshots' aren't accurate, you might as well use icons. There's mo way to fix this without redesigning iOS to be Android. -
@kfdfc valid points
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Maybe that's what the 1 gig of ram will be for, apps to run in the back. Na, on second thought, I guess they would probably eating into the precious battery time. Anyway, like was said, maybe someone in the Cydia community will come up with some of these tweaks.
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I'd be surprised if anyone makes this 'mission control' thing, because it's impossible/meaningless on iOS.
If anything it is more likely for the iPad than the iPhone. there isn't enough screen real estate for the iPhone to have a proper mission control. As you said, with the apps stopping while in the background it is unlikely altogether. -
Awesome... I really love this concept
