Steven Troughton-Smith, the developer of the very sweet application Stack, has been working on a new app called Expose. Expose is basically like Spaces on the Mac only, on the iPhone. He is still working on some final UI and animation stuff and there is no word on when it will be available but, it looks sweet. Check out the demo videos and screenshot below.
Mattia Brigatti a member of iSpazio had a chance to try SmartScreen, an application that is still on development, and when it will be finalized you can find it on Cydia Store. This application makes your lockscreen a desktop for various widgets like weather, stock etc.
At the moment there are only 2 gadget you can use of this possibility but later will also be added a calendar, weather and more.SmartScreen developers release an SDK that allow you to create new widgets for this application.And ‘so that the DevTeam has created her own and you can read their news in real time via the lockscreen.
Φανταστείτε το iPhone με coverflow multitasking, να μπορείτε να ανοίγετε εφαρμογές και αυτές να μένουν ανοιχτές μέχρι εσείς να τις κλείσετε.. δείτε το βίντεο και θα καταλάβετε!
The number one requested iPhone feature multitasking is tackled in this “What if iPhone had…” concept by Ocean Observations. There are several benefits of multitasking, and we believe it will come to the iPhone sooner or later.
Our idea is to present the running apps together with the rest of your app icons on the home screen, instead of hiding them behind long pressing some unrelated key. All running apps have a miniature representation in a cover flow at the bottom of the screen. To make room for this, each home screen page will have one less row of icons and the dock is removed completely. But since the running apps often will equal your favourites, they will still be easily accessible.
You can tap or swipe any of the cover flow miniatures to move it into focus. Then tap it again to bring it to full screen. Once an app is full screen, double-tapping the home button brings up the cover flow, letting you jump between running apps. This extra feature could be the new default setting for double-tap, which you could still change in the settings. Tapping the home button once minimizes the app into the running apps cover flow. The apps are arranged by the order you launched them, with the most recently launched app to the left.
A running app is also indicated by a backlighted app icon with a blue text label on the home screen. It’s still possible to bring a running app to full screen by pressing its icon.
To close an app, drag it out of the cover flow and the miniature moves back to the app icon on the home screen. The app icon then changes back to its original state. Depending on the performance of the phone, there could be a maximum number of running apps. In that case, when launching a new app, the least recently used one could be closed automatically.
Τι θα λέγατε να είχε και το iPhone exposé… το concept δημιουργήθηκε από την Ocean Observations και σκοπεύει να βελτιώσει την προεπισκόπηση για όλες σας τις εφαρμογές με τα σηματάκια για τις προειδοποιήσεις που έχετε στην κάθε μια με έναν exposé τρόπο περίπου όπως στο Mac σας.
Πως το χρησιμοποιείται;
Το μόνο που έχετε να κάνετε είναι να κάνετε click στο home button του iPhone σας και θα δείτε σε προεπισκόπηση όλο σας το SpringBoard!
This concept was created by Ocean Observations and aims to improve the overview of your apps and their notification badges by giving you an “Exposé”-ish view. While browsing your springboard, you can push the home button to be taken to a zoomed out state in which you can see all of the pages with apps. This view is combined with the Spotlight search. Tapping the search box would bring up the keyboard and hide the miniature pages. Each miniature is badged with all notifications for that page, to give you a quick idea of which pages contain new items. Tap any of the miniatures to go directly to that page.
For more than nine pages, the thumbnails could shrink even further in size. It would work the other way around as well. So if you have fewer pages, the thumbnails would be larger.