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What do iOS users think about the design of the app? I'm asking because from screenshots and a video, it looks the design is a close copy from the Android app.

How do users accept common patterns like Actionbar or Slideout Menu on an iPhone?

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"Icon is no good" 1 Star review.

Man do I hate people who review IOS apps in the store.

Personally my initial impression is positive. The slideout menu imitates similar patterns I've seen on the iPad and seems to work well on my phone. Not entirely sold on modals (login is in a popup) - but I have a hate on for modals in general.

The slide-out menu pattern showed up on both platforms mostly simultaneously (think Facebook may have been an early adopter). Also, it doesn't seem to follow the action bar pattern any more than other iOS apps do. Back and search buttons in the title bar has been an iOS convention since the dawn of the OS.

Visually, it is adopting a similar "flat" design to Holo (as has Google+ on iOS), not sure how I feel about that but I'm not a primary user of iOS so my opinion is mainly moot there.

It looks very iOS6, actually. Not that I'm saying it doesn't look like the Android app (I don't have my N7 handy to check), but the Apple iOS6 apps have mostly moved to a gray/slate look very similar to this.

I think YouTube borrowed the menu-behind-the-content-when-it-slides-to-the-right from Facebook. Anyway, that's where I first saw it.

Design-wise, it looks pretty much like the new mobile website.

The menu behind the content UI Pattern is actually one of the suggested UI patterns in the official Android style guide.

Do you know when this UI pattern was added to the style guide? Because, FWIW, webOS had something similar with sliding, over a year ago, in their Maps app.

Ah. Found it (they call it "drawers").

http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/actionbar.html

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