** Requires iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, or iPhone 4īe Warned: Downloading and installing the update takes awhile. * Requires iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and iPod touch 3rd generation See Also: TiPb’s terrific iOS4 Walkthrough. Straight from the update install screen itself, below is the list of new features included in this update. So, I set it to quite large.Ĭontinue reading “Best iOS 7 Enhhancement – DYNAMIC TYPE”Īs with the rest of the world, I have upgraded to iOS 4. The new Dynamic Type setting (see image) gives you a much broader array of font sizes to choose from. In the past iOS gave you a choice of, maybe 6 or 7 font sizes – but, again, the only apps that ever supported that were email and messaging. It now supports the system wide Dynamic Type choice. Say what? I kinda ignored this until I noticed that my AnyList app (best grocery list app out there by the way) does the same thing. Well, when Flipboard updated itself, it popped up a message that said “We see that you had set a font preference, from now on we will be using your system wide Dynamic Type preference”. Flipboard recently included a feature that allowed the user to set a preferred font (Yay! Made it usable). Many apps have updates to be compatible with iOS 7. I have had iOS 7 since August but didn’t know about its ‘new’ Dynamic Type option until today. Of course virtually no apps ever did support it and my aging eyes have been yearning for the larger screen Android’s out there. Apps that support it will use the larger font size. However, the speech bubble UI is similar to that in iChat or text message conversations on the iPhone for instance, which all in turn probably originate from comics where speech bubbles *do* follow on from each other and are linked, so play at least a part in showing this relationship.Īlso conversations in Echofon are only displayed if the members of that conversation are other users that you follow, so it’s likely that you are able to recognise the avatars in most cases.For years iOS has had a ‘system-wide’ font size option that allows you to set a font size of choice. Oct 15, True, on their own they may not firmly show that they are direct replies to each other. Without that, if I didn’t know the first tweet was by there is nothing at *all* in that UI to link the two. The only thing that indicates that the tweets are linked is the big “Conversation” header. Even then, you could do that without the speech bubbles - they just add prettiness. The speech bubbles don’t link those two tweets at all - all they show is that one of the tweets is from you and the other isn’t. “Here the use of speech bubbles indicates that the tweets are connected and are replies to each other.” The ‘conversations’ feature (probably inspired by clients such as Tweetie) has made it into the web app but feels too densely packed: Take the ‘New’ Twitter web UI, for example, which I feel displays far too much unnecessary information. The challenge with listing information effectively lies in deciding which of these bits of information to display. Author username: Author real name: rentzsch.That is the content, but is outweighed by its associated metadata: Take a Tweet on Twitter (as part of a conversation) for I’m surprised (but probably shouldn’t be) those are on different code paths Most of these have associated metadata and this is often the cause of the problem of information crowding. ![]() Think about the actual content which is displayed in a list: statuses, blog entries, bookmarks etc. Whilst a useful way of displaying lots of information, lists often fall short because of the amount of information that is presented in a small space, which leads to a cluttered interface.
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