The officially unofficial "Optimized For Honeycomb" List (n=292)

[Newton1221]

Hungry Shark is supposed to be getting a tablet version, definitely looking forward to that one

 

[rohdawgeleven]

Unless I missed it, I haven't seen "Beautiful Widgets" on this list.

Works and looks great. I have it on all my devices.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.levelup.beautifulwidgets&feature=featured-apps

 

[Newton1221]

Unless I missed it, I haven't seen "Beautiful Widgets" on this list.

Works and looks great. I have it on all my devices.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.levelup.beautifulwidgets&feature=featured-apps

Good call, I've been using it for so long that I forget its not a standard part of android.

For instance I picked up my girlfriends Droid 2 last week and was like where's your weather? She was like huh? I'm like...... nevermind.

 

[hypocaffeinemia#AC]

Unless I missed it, I haven't seen "Beautiful Widgets" on this list.

Works and looks great. I have it on all my devices.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.levelup.beautifulwidgets&feature=featured-apps

Not having purchased this, is it actually optimized for tablets/honeycomb or does it merely work?

 

[Newton1221]

Not having purchased this, is it actually optimized for tablets/honeycomb or does it merely work?

I'm not sure how optimized a widget can be for honeycomb but the "super clock" Widgets it comes with are very high resolution and have customizable skins.

 

[hypocaffeinemia#AC]

I'm not sure how optimized a widget can be for honeycomb but the "super clock" Widgets it comes with are very high resolution and have customizable skins.

Understood, but I'm disinclined to add it to the list as any widget-based app should work on honeycomb, even the nice ones!

 

[Newton1221]

Yeah I dont think its been officially tablet optimized but its still a great app

 

[dsignori]

Add USA Today to the news apps they released a tablet version yesterday that rocks.

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Thanks. I actually find the USA Today tablet optimized app just ok at best. It's optimized, but really pales in comparison so far to the few other news apps optimized for honeycomb.

 

[rohdawgeleven]

Not having purchased this, is it actually optimized for tablets/honeycomb or does it merely work?

I guess it just "merely works"
But it merely works really well. I have come across a few widget based apps that have FC'd on me with my Xoom. I was glad to see BW worked. Just giving folks a heads up.

 

[NVNJ]

I really thought that apps would be flowing a little bit faster than they are. I mean, I purchased a Palm Pre when they first came out and Apps for WebOS were dropping faster. Guess I'm just impatient.

 

[DocSavag]

I really thought that apps would be flowing a little bit faster than they are. I mean, I purchased a Palm Pre when they first came out and Apps for WebOS were dropping faster. Guess I'm just impatient.

This is about what we saw with the iPad too. A lot of apps that already work but few that are optimized for the larger device. It took months for that to be less true for iOS. Hopefully it will be less than that for honeycomb devices. As more devices come online with honeycomb I suspect the development for it will escalate dramatically.

 

[Newton1221]

I really thought that apps would be flowing a little bit faster than they are. I mean, I purchased a Palm Pre when they first came out and Apps for WebOS were dropping faster. Guess I'm just impatient.

The sdk wasn't released until a couple days before the xoom, if it had been released a month ago then we would be seeing more apps

 

[NVNJ]

The sdk wasn't released until a couple days before the xoom, if it had been released a month ago then we would be seeing more apps

Yes, this is true.

 

[dmcman73]

The Exchange Email program called Touchdown for Tablets is up in the market place and looks great! It's specific to tablets and utilizes all the space excellent, check it out.

 

[hypocaffeinemia#AC]

The Exchange Email program called Touchdown for Tablets is up in the market place and looks great! It's specific to tablets and utilizes all the space excellent, check it out.

Thanks, added!

 

[wynand32]

I really thought that apps would be flowing a little bit faster than they are. I mean, I purchased a Palm Pre when they first came out and Apps for WebOS were dropping faster. Guess I'm just impatient.

Hmmm... As a long-time Pre user, I really don't remember apps for webOS dropping all that quickly on June 6, 2009 or soon thereafter. In fact, other than the 30 or so the phone shipped with (by devs who'd been given early access to the SDK), we didn't see any new apps for quite some time because the SDK wasn't available.

Google just released the final 3.0 SDK, and so it'll be a few weeks, I'm sure, before most apps have been updated for it. Until then, I find it a little hard to put up webOS as an example of a platform that had quicker/broader app development.

 

[mikejs78]

Quickoffice is working on a tablet-optimized version that looks pretty cool. Video preview below:

YouTube - QuickOffice for Android Honeycomb tablets: View and Edit MS Office documents [Preview]

 

[bishop7262]

Weatherbug app for XOOM is now available on the market Weatherbug Beta

It is pretty cool!!!

 

[Newton1221]

Hmmm... As a long-time Pre user, I really don't remember apps for webOS dropping all that quickly on June 6, 2009 or soon thereafter. In fact, other than the 30 or so the phone shipped with (by devs who'd been given early access to the SDK), we didn't see any new apps for quite some time because the SDK wasn't available.

Google just released the final 3.0 SDK, and so it'll be a few weeks, I'm sure, before most apps have been updated for it. Until then, I find it a little hard to put up webOS as an example of a platform that had quicker/broader app development.

Apps for webOS had to be built from the ground up, apps only need to be optimized for the xoom so I don't think it will take nearly as long

 

[nate3382]

Weatherbug app for XOOM is now available on the market Weatherbug Beta

It is pretty cool!!!

This is alot better than the other weather apps ive seen. Im hoping for a good weather channel app to hit the market soon