I am in the middle of coding an app for Android Honeycomb for a customer and I went through the sparse documentation on design guidelines. I then remembered having seen the CNN app on the Android 3.0 launch and thought I could use that for a reference design. I was wrong...
1. Launching the CNN app for tablets in portrait mode crashes the app. Everytime...
2. The top buttons in the right corner (action bar) have been customized so they look nothing like the standard Android 3.0 buttons.
3. Rotating the app to portrait isn't supported
4. Swiping sideways between articles are slow. Like really really slow.
I didn't want to drag down any particular app but the CNN app was so much marketed when Android 3.0 launched to I would think that they would fix these kind of bugs.
Also you cannot filter tablet apps on the Android Market (who got the idea that all apps are default compatible with tablets? Should be the other way around or at least mark tablet only apps in some way).
I really want to like Android tablets but as a owner of both the Xoom and the iPad2 I really can't see any reason for taking the Xoom with me on holidays. The Xoom drains the battery at least 5x faster than the iPad on standby (I can't find the apps that keeps the Xoom awake...). Aww I can't seem to stop finding faults with Android tablets. Android phones are great though! I still use my Nexus One even though I have an iPhone 4 :-)
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