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Android Bootstrap

by dragos2 on 11/10/13, 9:13 PM with 23 comments

  • by aferreira on 11/10/13, 11:36 PM

    One thing that I like about Android is that developers can choose to minimally style buttons and similar UI elements and these differences will be applied to whatever the base device theme is.

    This means that users will get a consistent user experience throughout various applications and won't have to run around trying to figure out what's a button and what's a text input.

    Sadly, this project essentially destroys all of that work and something tells me it won't work correctly on the most customized devices (like the old Motorola RAZR running 2.3 for example).

    Nice idea but I don't think it makes much sense in it's current state.

  • by swanson on 11/10/13, 10:24 PM

    Cool project!

    Unfortunate naming collision with Donn Felker's http://www.androidbootstrap.com/ though :(

  • by Gnewt on 11/10/13, 10:05 PM

    Why would one implement this instead of using Android's builtin widgets? Android apps have always felt better to me when they use the UI recommended in the Android style guide.

  • by snyff on 11/10/13, 10:21 PM

    Success button with an Apple logo... nicely played ;)

  • by bjoe_lewis on 11/11/13, 6:12 AM

    I was looking for something exactly as this. Say, you want to building a quick-quick app for quick.com, supposedly native. This might actually work.

  • by finalight on 11/11/13, 1:09 AM

    no point having bootstrap for android since android API already have method for different platform version detection