Android app getting a little iOSy

Feedback & Ideas
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For me it’s the colour that gives it an ios vibe. Change it to blue and i think it would better fit material design.

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The colour of what? :slight_smile: The icons are a nice light blue already :smiley:

Did you want the whole bottom bar to be blue, topped with white icons? :slight_smile:

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How do I get this Beta version? I downloaded the latest version on the Google Play store? Thanks.

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Scroll down to the bottom of the app’s page on the play store, and there should be a button that says something like “Join beta”

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Ahh ok, thanks mate, I will take a look.

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Thanks, I have seen it and I’m now a Beta tester! :sunglasses:

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For us iOS users, any chance of a screenshot from a ‘before’ app that simulates the screenshot in the opening post, so we can see what went before.

And, what’s that fish icon in the top menu bar mean? :tropical_fish::tropical_fish::slightly_smiling_face:

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This is the functionality that’s been moved to the nav bar & the old menu for it -

Video from this blog.

It should be embedding ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Don’t have a screenshot of Monzo handy, but imagine that whole bar at the bottom not being there.

In order to get to those pages you swipe right (or tap the hamburger) to bring up the nav drawer

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The YouTube app is like this no?

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Is the round red button with the ‘+’ called the hamburger?

And that fish icon? What’s that for?

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Plus icon is called FAB, Floating Action button (it often opens smaller menu, but not always).
Hamburger is three horizontal lines (upper left corner) opening a… it’s called a drawer? That’s what @uncle_fungus linked from Gmail app few posts above.

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Hamburger: (3 horizontal lines for side-navigation)

FAB: (floating action button)

I hope this helps! :slight_smile:

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It does. It’s worth mentioning, therefore, that those of us on iOS who use Google apps (I use Mail, Calendar, Authenticator, Sheets, Admin, Analytics and others) also have to contend with ‘non-OS-compliant’ UI, so it runs both ways. It still takes me a second or so longer to work out where the ‘new email’ button is (red circle FAB, bottom left) as I’m so used to Apple placing theirs top left, and I’ve been using Gmail for years. :zipper_mouth_face:

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You make a good point. That would then mean Inbox by Gmail is very Androidy on iOS. It has a FAB at the bottom right and a hamburger top left!!

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Okay, would it be fair to say that design can feel androidy/iosy and we are not imagining things? :wink: I mean that, since ios users get androidy feel, then android users are right to get iosy vibe?

Even though I’m sceptic about Monzo’s android nav bar, I have to objectively say that things are definitely not on the same level. IOS is not as open and bottom nav bar is firmly expected, while android’s hamburgers are more common, but nav bar appears too. Material Design was announced June 2014, and nav bar was added in March 2016 - significantly later, so some of the friction and feel comes from nav bar being used a lot less, that just happens to be dominating apps on ios.

Can we blame poor nav bar for not giving androidy feel only because it’s popular on ios and not being in Material Design guidelines from the start? :smiley:
Not sure it will change my perception though. :sweat_smile:

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And then you get Spotify who just party in their own house. Urgh.

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Yeah exactly, so it matches the top area.

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Not being an android user I couldn’t say something feels androidy or not. What I can say is some apps are updated in the iOS App Store that can, at first, feel unnatural. But after time you either get used to them or stop using them. :upside_down_face:

There are still many MANY apps with a hamburger menu in the iOS App Store, enough so that it felt natural (albeit I believe a pain to implement). So even to me, a long time iOS user, the bottom bar feels different and not the norm. :man_shrugging:t2:

I do however accept that these changes are being made for a reason and I expect to get used to it. If I don’t get used to it I will give :mondo: feedback in the hope enough people feel the same (changes should be for the many not the few). Should another app serve the same purpose but work better for me then I may switch to this. It’s the freedom of choice. :sunglasses:

Overall I think it is fantastic how open :monzo: are trying to be from the start and I do hope this continues. I know they are trying out new things and am happy to go along for the ride while ever I feel engaged and valued. :+1:

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Main problem with the Hamburger is that it’s impossible to reach with one handed use.

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