Android has always had a better notification system than iOS. With Android 4.1, rich notifications were introduced. These rich notifications can be expanded to reveal more information and even execute certain actions. My favourite examples of rich notifications on Android are Pocket Casts with its playback controls available on expanding a notification and TV Show Favs allowing you to mark an episode as watched right from the notification shade. When I got my Nexus 7 back in August, I started experimenting with apps that made use of all the new stuff Android 4.1 brought in. One app that has stuck…
Author: Mikhail Madnani
Mikhail Madnani
Mikhail Madnani is the acting Editor-in-Chief of Beautiful Pixels. He’s usually the one making sure so many weather apps get reviewed when he isn’t playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Hearthstone.
I’ve used quite a few expense trackers on different platforms. Many have been reviewed here as well. There are a few good looking apps that get the job done on Android but none of them wowed me like this one. Expense Manager by Markus Hintersteiner is one of the best looking expense trackers on any platform. With the Nexus 7, Android finally started getting tablet apps. Almost every good app on the platform has a nice tablet UI now. Expense Manager isn’t just a Holo themed app. It is an elegant app with great animations utilizing google’s modern card themed…
Remember when Tweetie changed the way apps were designed? Loren is known to do that kind of stuff. Letterpress might do the same when it comes to multiplayer games on iOS. Letterpress was the first game that brought Game Center multiplayer to the mainstream. Snowman, the team that brought Checkmark to us, is back with a memory game that is the first amazing looking multiplayer game in a Letterpress world. Circles looks beyond great. It has sounds for everything, which I love. The game relies on light colours and white text on a black background. I was surprised to not…
After I reviewed iPhone Blueprints back in September, many readers recommended Jon Duckett’s HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites. After finally (yes, I know) getting around to exploring the book, I am completely blown away by it. I have been spending time with the book over the last few weeks and I can’t believe how good it is. The book is meant to be an introduction to web technologies like HTML, CSS and a few others. It teaches you how to design and build websites from scratch in the most beautiful way imaginable. At nearly 500 pages, the book…
There are apps that look amazing and apps that make you actually get things done. Until today most of the cocktail apps I had used looked nice but never made me want to mix something. They lacked a certain personal touch. Minibar by Shape has a certain joie de vivre to it. Minibar outclasses every other cocktail app in every aspect. Right from its stunning icon to the subtle textures and precise photography, the app makes you want to crack open your bar and start mixing. The app has a tab bar at the bottom that will put most luxury…
When GarageBand for iOS launched, I was really excited. I bought it on the day it released and it has been getting better with each update. I managed getting the Apogee Jam recently and recording on iOS has become brilliantly simple. There already are tons of great and powerful music apps on the iPad. If you’re a Dream Theater fan, you will know how important iOS apps and devices have become for Jordan Rudess. He has his own iOS apps that are available for purchase on the App Store and even lists iOS devices as an instrument in the band…