# 04 Jan 2012
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“We’ve made the inclusion of the unmodified Holo theme family a compatibility requirement for devices running Android 4.0 and forward. If the device has Android Market it will have the Holo themes as they were originally designed.”
Web Intents | dev.twitter.com
Nice to see the useful “intent” concept leaping out of Android’s UI model and onto other platforms.
(Showing a profoundly unfunny Steve Martin tweet in the product announcement—not nice. Oh well! CELEBS. Profit?)
“So the pattern’s been a big success, right? Users are familiar with it and developers have embraced it. So it was a little surprising to me to see that Twitter has now decided that the dashboard is not so good after all…”
“New ScaleGestureDetector that lets Views detect and handle transformation gestures that involve more than one pointer (multitouch) using the supplied MotionEvents.”
“The Twitter for Android application that we worked with Twitter to design gives you, the 3rd party developer, a working example of how you can customize and build an application that’s both fun and highly functional.”
— Twitter for Android: A closer look at Android’s evolving UI patterns
