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My issue with HTML apps (like your issue) is many developers think it's perfectly okay to use that iOS interface on Android because Android does not force you to change it. The Android ecosystem is so polluted with apps like this that it almost makes me long for Google to put their foot down and start forcing UI compliance like Apple does.

It's bad enough Android users have to deal with legacy apps on their own OS that still use pre Android 3.0/4.0 UI conventions (or worse, poorly slap them on top of their old interface without consideration). The only apps that should be allowed to get away with rolling their own UI are games.





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