{"id":1004,"date":"2015-02-22T22:16:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T20:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steppschuh.net\/blog\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2015-02-22T22:16:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T20:16:14","slug":"materialized-remote-control-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/steppschuh.net\/blog\/?p=1004","title":{"rendered":"Materialized &#8211; Remote Control Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that make Android L awesome is the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/design\/\" target=\"_blank\">Material Design<\/a>. Of course the Remote Control Collection won&#8217;t miss out following new design guidelines &#8211; so I created the app from scratch and made sure it would fit well into the new Android environment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n  <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yrk0RWHmKEI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<h2>New UX<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve completely redesigned the whole experience, not only the UI. Keeping the Google guidelines and lectures from my recent <a href=\"http:\/\/hpi.de\/en\/research\/research-groups\/human-computer-interaction.html\" target=\"_blank\">Human Computer Interaction class<\/a> in mind, I changed the way users would need to interact with the app. For the first time ever, I took advantage of <a href=\"https:\/\/usertesting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">usability testing<\/a> and used the feedback from communities, highly engaged users and testers to build an app that maintains it&#8217;s complex functionality while being super intuitive to use.<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\" style=\"background-color:transparent;\">\n<a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/steppschuh.net\/media\/images\/software\/rmc\/screen_n7_remotes.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"http:\/\/steppschuh.net\/media\/images\/software\/rmc\/screen_n7_remotes.jpg\" alt=\"Remotes\" title=\"Remotes\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color:transparent;\">\n<a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/steppschuh.net\/media\/images\/software\/rmc\/screen_n7_devices.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"http:\/\/steppschuh.net\/media\/images\/software\/rmc\/screen_n7_devices.jpg\" alt=\"Devices\" title=\"Devices\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Comparison Over Time<\/h2>\n<p>Taking a look back to the first release of the app, which was in late 2012, the UI has changed quite a bit. Here&#8217;s a comparison of version 1.3 (Gingerbread), version 2.2 (ICS, Holo design) and version 3.2 (L, Material design).<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/steppschuh.net\/media\/images\/software\/rmc\/comparison_home.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"http:\/\/steppschuh.net\/media\/images\/software\/rmc\/comparison_home.jpg\" alt=\"UI comparison\" title=\"UI comparison\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.steppschuh.remotecontrolcollection\" title=\"App on Google Play\" target=\"_blank\"><input class=\"button\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Google Play\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that make Android L awesome is the new Material Design. Of course the Remote Control Collection won&#8217;t miss out following new design guidelines &#8211; so I created the app from scratch and made sure it would fit well into the new Android environment. New UX I&#8217;ve completely redesigned the whole experience, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/steppschuh.net\/blog\/?p=1004\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Materialized &#8211; Remote Control Collection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,78],"tags":[61,81],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-apps","category-remote-control-apps","tag-android","tag-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/steppschuh.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/steppschuh.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/steppschuh.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/steppschuh.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/steppschuh.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/steppschuh.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"http:\/\/steppschuh.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/steppschuh.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/steppschuh.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/steppschuh.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}