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Григорий Клюшников

Android still comes with the 2.x black-grey-orange theme for backwards compatibility. You can still use it in an app.

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sam henri gold

@grishka alright scrap the material 3 thing, we're going in a different direction 😉

sam henri gold

@grishka i have a soft spot for pre-Holo Android when the official design guidance was "fuck it, do whatever you want"

Григорий Клюшников

sam henri gold, this is what I was working on at the time. I absolutely hated this design because
- custom font, our designer didn't like droid sans
- every single icon and color had at least 2 states because everything got inverted in pressed state, akin to iOS 6
It was satisfying to strip this out and replace it with Holo. It took a lot of convincing to get Pavel on board with that redesign. I also had no fucking clue what I was doing so the code was so atrocious it's not even funny.

sam henri gold

@grishka in fairness...droid sans is pretty ugly. but yeah i still have wartime flashbacks to the days of graphic slicing, writing specs for 9-part image layouts, and keeping a library of standard PNG icons at various sizes since no-one had system icon libraries yet. (shudders)

sam henri gold

@grishka hello button_delete_red.png, my old friend.

Григорий Клюшников

sam henri gold, and the fun part was that I put a link to my profile in the about box

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