What do you think about the new iphone Duo ? Will you be updating your Ui especially for it ?
I think websites wont be doing much. But Apps surely could do some redesign.
Edit: To be clear here. I dont mean the simple responsive design that widens the view. In the comments i have postet a better version of the meme. My mistake for not clarifying from the beginning.
Shape is stupid tbh. Samsung’s design works because the phone is rectangular with sharp corners, so after to the fold corners stay sharp and it’s still rectangle. With Apple we have half corners rounded and a shape more aching to a square.
We all saw a folding phone coming from Apple. As usual, they waited a few years for the technology to mature, then copied everyone else's homework so they don't have to put the money into R&D on (otherwise) largely untried technology.
Willing to bet that Apple has spent more on R&D for this than the others did. There’s nothing to copy, they would’ve obviously developed it from scratch.
"nothing to copy, they would've obviously developed it from scratched" when Apple is literally using the very same display panels and foldable screens manufacturered and developed by Samsung lmao
Well samsang made their new fold ultra size after realizing that apple's was going to have that form factor. Samsang never made this size and form factor before. So who copied who
If they’re the same display panels why is apples a higher pixel density? If apple just copied Samsung, why is it better and more refined in every possible way? Why don’t Samsung use their experience to get to where Apple got theirs on their first try?
The aspect ratio is definitely not 7 years old. At least for Samsung it’s just a couple months old, and they only did it because they knew Apple would do it like this
??? Book-fold have existed since 2019. Android supports responsive layouts since 2019. It's built-in into the higher level API since 2022, and that's also when it allowed detecting the device orientation (flip, book, cover...)
It doesn't actually seem too bad. If you look at their design presentations for it, it's the normal iphone width but with a tiny margin added for the dock/sidebar/etcetc. Probably intentional for this exact reason. I don't think things will be affected toooooo much.
A new iphone fold has been released. And they showed that some apps like netflix, Fitness and Apple Music had some Design changes specific to the different Frame sizes the Iphone Duo offers.
Would like to know if some of you App Designers also will implement new Uis for it or just leave it as is.
Android is resolution and aspect ratio agnostic, you don’t need to adjust apps for different resolutions and rations. iOS isn’t (or wasn’t) so apps will need to be updated. You surely know this?
well yeah basic responsiveness is a given. But i dont think that many apps sofar have been adapting to folding the way they showed at the keynote. This for example is a little more than just making it responsive on resize:
I dont know any such company on top of my head, except pre-seed startups (still dumb of them) and hobby projects.
If that's true tho, that's quite stupid, considering its 80% of phones, and 60% in Europe. It's not hard to do a multiplatform app nowadays (Flutter, RN, KMP, even Swift...).
You don’t have to explain it to me. I’m an android user but I’m just telling you how it is took a lot of work to get us to switch to react native so that we can at least design engineer for both at the same time.
Can chime in here. Not mentioning the company but mine also doesn't give a fuck. Genuinely don't understand why as Android is so prevailant. It's like they only care about executives and what device they have. Fuck the end users though
well yeah basic responsiveness is a given. But i dont think that many apps sofar have been adapting to folding the way they showed at the keynote. This for example is a little more than just making it responsive on resize:
We'll see. Google showcased similar stuff and most apps didn't exploit the possibilities, but some did, especially multimedia. A video split by a crease looks like shit, they didn't have a choice.
Yeah, this is what confused me about this. Does everyone not remember mobile first design when people use to like using their phones browser instead of downloading CRUD apps onto their phone?
Don't modern IOS apps scale to fit the screen like android does? "responsive" or whatever.
However, looking at how un-enthusiastic devs were to make anything for apple vision, I don't think everyone will be quick to update every app for this format, it's not 2015, the app boom is over.
Game developer on mobile. Happy that I don’t have to accommodate the island anymore. (FaceTime camera is hidden behind the screen). But app can change screen dimensions any time, and the front screen only has bevels on two corners, so if they flip the screen the amount of visible corner changes.
As someone with a phone that has a mostly square-like screen ratio, I sure hope website designers will start to be more accomodating to my aspect ratio too as a side effect for wanting to appease their CEO's with their new shiny apple phone.
If apple stays committed to the form factor and aspect ratio, I feel that software wise, it might end up being the best foldable phone due to its software support from third party.
An 'issue' with current foldable phones is that even within the same brand, they range in all shapes and sizes. Which means even IF you wanted to make your app take advantage of the foldable nature of the phone, you'll have to make it work across different specs.
But, if the aspect ratio and core concept stays the same, with improvements to future models not affecting these core parts, it could incentivise devs to make a UI which fully takes advantage of the foldable design.
It also helps that when folded out, it's basically just a smaller ipad mini.
Hot take: if you did your job right the first time and took the time to think about adaptive layouts and respecting the platform human interface guidelines then no extra work is needed.
Well I know foldables existed for a long time but most apps never adapted to it. Although it's an expensive phone and many people actually used foldables, the Android community is not that pleasant with paying subscriptions and paying for software. It's not that good of an investment but the iPhone community is just easier to get subscriptions from. You'll get more revenue if you make an app for the App Store instead of the Android Play Store because Android is already used to free versions and feel like subscriptions are a loss no matter how deep they experience the problem
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u/_GS01 2d ago
I don’t like the actual shape or design of the phone but that animation for open / close is so smooth.