Holo IV: Pt 1

Holo IV is a new series that takes a quick look at four apps that deserve recognition and feature a well-implemented Holo interface.

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HoloCompass

A beautifully designed compass app that tries to incorporate the Holo design but misses on a couple of small areas. Specifically, the menu options should reflect the holo design, and the actionbar should scale properly for all devices (instead of being a bit small on the Galaxy Nexus for example). Outside of these minor issues, it features a great circular design that is simple yet functional.

Timer

Simply the best timer app on the market. Highly recommend this app to anyone looking for a timer or countdown. Timer has a Beautiful interface, that incorporates holo light and dark themes.

Trackthisforme

Need to track something? Whether it is weight, push-ups, or mood, if it can be quantified this app can track it. And of course it features wonderful graphs and a heavy visual look for any quantitative tracked measurements.

Quotes

Quote is the prettiest stock and portfolio tracking application I have had the pleasure to use. It features a well implemented Holo look and gorgeous fonts and graphs to display stock data.

UPDATE: H/T to Hannah Mittelstaedt and CS in the comments for the corrections on Holo Compass and Timer.

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  • Hannah Mittelstaedt

    I disagree with HoloCompass overriding what menus look like. Not so holo.

    • holoeverywhere

      Have to agree with you on this. Upon further inspection there are some minor code changes that need to be made to make it truly Holo. Case in point, the menus (as you mentioned), as well as the disproportionate action bar. Going to amend the review today to make note of this.

  • CS

    Minor nitpick — the Timer app, while great, doesn’t actually include stopwatch functionality. It’s count-down only.

    • holoeverywhere

      Thanks for the heads up, I’ll be amending the post to include this note.

  • http://twitter.com/phulton Patrick Hulton

    Quotes is what Google Finance wishes it looked like.

  • Gigasoft

    Trackthisforme is truly great!

  • http://www.DIYDROID.com/ Brandon Nolte

    I’m a big fan of Timer, glad it finally made it to holoeverywhere!

  • thinklinda

    All of these apps are beautifully done. I’m going to give Timer, Trackthisforme and HaloCompass a try.

  • surix

    Thanks for writing about my app (Holo Compass). I know about small top bar on xhdpi devices, there will be update and it will fix it.

    • blunden

      Awesome. Apart from that and the menu not really following the design guidelines I really like what you have done with it. Very stylish and a perfect example of where minimalism creates a more effective design, even if it seems heavily inspired by Timer that I instantly bought back when it was released.

  • http://twitter.com/BiDuSoft BiDuSoft

    Hope you guys would be so kind to review my app also: Morning Bird Alarm Clock. Thanks you so much.

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    This is super clean, very inspiring.

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