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actually, I think that's all pretty cool dude! imlad Send a noteboard - 16/06/2013 04:17:31 AM

In complete seriousness:


You should be take pride in doing something like that, even if the people using those apps never knows your name, you've still influenced their life in some small and not necessarily meaningless way; if the changes you made makes it in some way more enjoyable or just plain easier to use, then you've done a good thing.

Of course, I've always been the sort to wonder at things like "who actually typed the text for these error messages in the original Windows OS?" and such inane stuff. I even got a kick out of watching World Series of Poker a few years back and one of the players they talked to claimed to be the guy who came up with and programmed in that squiggle red line that appears under misspelled words when you type. And, I almost always watch credits through, just absorbing the names of as many people as I can (barely any really :-( ). Hmmm... thinking of that, I've probably seen DomA's real name on screen and not known it, doesn't he do VFX or such?

So yeah, totally cool IMO what you do.


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I work for Cisco. A lot of their higher-end, next generation collaboration devices (which basically means video/voice devices, in various form-factors) run, or are going to run, Android. We don't really re-skin the operating system itself like a lot of vendors do (Sense, Touchwiz, etc) but we do heavily customize a lot of the core Android apps to include our branding, visual style, and features.

I personally have been working primarily on customizing the Email and Calendar apps, with some dabbling here and there in the Lockscreen, Launcher, system UI, Settings, Browser, etc. IF you work in an office that orders new Cisco desktop gear, and you were to compare the Email and Calendar apps to their standard Android counterparts, you'd find a lot of visual differences, and I did the vast majority of that. Also things like Email sorting, a large portion of Calendar's WebEx integration, blah blah blah.

Anyway, you don't care, so I'm sorry for going on. The best visual demonstration I can give is in the video below. It's short and entertaining enough to watch, more or less. Not a bad commercial. If you pay attention around the 30 second mark, they give a super-short shout-out to Email and Calendar. See how they look weird? Yeah. I did that.

Thanks for asking.



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