A Look to the Future

Where we have been:

Holo Everywhere has been somewhat deserted in the past couple of months. This is in part due to holidays and my job (which I love), but NEVER lack of interest. For those that do not know, this is currently a single author run site, and lately life has taken over my free time.

That being said, the world of Android Design and the Holo Everywhere approach is continuing to evolve. For example, go ahead and look around Google Play. Not only have developers begun to heed the advice and guidelines for Android Design, but many have begun to expand or further push the definition. As more and more applications switch to Holo or Holo-inspired designs, it has become harder and harder to keep up the site to reflect all the changes (and to pick and choose apps to feature). I’m not trying to say that this isn’t a wonderful problem to have, but it does make things a bit more complicated.

Where we are:

Right now my first and foremost concern is getting content back up onto the site. I have a several apps that I’d like to review, as well as continuing with Round-up type posts. I still want to run the post on Holo-themed Twitter applications (I swear it’s not vaporware!) and at this point we are nearing a dozen that are available and the number continues to fluctuate.

Where we are going:

In the future you should expect more editorials, more round-ups (Specifically the Holo IV series), and less in-depth application reviews. The application reviews that will be posted will be for applications that I feel are less well known or major overhauls of popular applications.

Tl;dr : More content is coming. Expect more editorials and round-ups.

  • Juan Fernandez

    Thanks for all the effort. The site is great, i hope you can find someone to help you ;)

  • Kaushal

    Thanks for this site. I’m always looking forward to new posts on my RSS feed. Also, you might be interested in this Holo Apps G+ Community: https://plus.google.com/communities/112110996671697454680 (and it’s very likely that you’re already a member of it :) )

    • http://ridukkokun.wordpress.com/ Dukkokun

      I was about to post it but I’m glad someone already did. I started that community mainly thanks to your blog, together with Android Niceties. So feel free to post your articles on the community, or partecipate, or do whatever you want. You gave the spark :)

  • w5t1h7

    Nice! this site helped me a lot if the first days of holo where it was hard to find nice holo apps, its good to hear again from you!

  • Alexander Procter

    Looking forward to more from this excellent blog/resource/font of inspiration.

  • BiDuSoft

    I feel very disappointed in this site. We have developed a lot of well-designed Holo-compliant apps such as: Anime Alarm Clock, Morning Bird Alarm Clock and Global Tipping Guide. I have alerted the admin like 5 times in total about our apps and request reviews but our apps have never been mentioned or featured. If you are going to let people know more about well-designed apps, at least be fair about it. More popular apps are featured here than not-so-well-known apps and it’s bad for the users and the new developers in general. Users miss out on great apps and developers don’t get noticed. Hope that the site owner will start changing the way they handle things soon.