apatkinson

At first peek of this old TV style off animation long before gingerbread was released I thought it was quirky and cool, and couldn’t wait to use it.

Anyway a long while passed until it was finally pushed to my nexus one OTA
After the first few off and ons I thought it was cool but it might get annoying as the screen turns off it catches your eye, However after a while it grew on me and i think it would be strange and boring if a phone turned off without this cool little animation.

I wanted to know how it worked, what exactly happened to the little android screen when you pressed the off button. I looked around on youtube and nothing was found, so I threw a video together, and here it is:

I heard a while back that google were going through a redesign when an idea hit me that they could implement on their site.

The particular area was the top navigation bar:

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