Mobilizing the Enterprise

Thoughts on SharePoint, Smartphones, and the future of enterprise productivity

Android UI - ripped off from Windows?

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While we make an iPhone app for accessing SharePoint, we’re always looking at the other smartphones.  We make sure our iPhone app integrates will with the  iPhone UI - contacts & calendar look like iPhone contacts and calendars.  Where it makes sense, we try to follow the UI patterns on the existing device so that a user’s muscle memory works on the device and our application.  Here is what I noticed on the DroidX running Android 2.1.  The similarities to my Windows laptop really struck me:

Written by daviddsouza

August 7, 2010 at 12:48 pm

Posted in Android, UX

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