No Android app is good unless it works across many different screen sizes. Timely Alarm Clock delivers in this front as well. On larger screens, when there’s space, the middle tab of the app is always visible. This is a genious approach for using the available space.

All the other screens adapt nicely as well.

The app is not only beautiful. It’s delightful. Every time you tap on anything you get an immediate feedback of what you’re doing in form of a pleasant animation. Each screen transition is well thought out and masterfully implemented.

In some apps animations are taken too far and merely cause motion sickness to users. Not so in this app. Everything is just right. Animations are smooth and short. They all serve a purpose to make user either have a better sense of structure in the app or convey a message of an action. This is how animations should be done.

Make no mistake. Animations are difficult and even dangerous. Adding animations to apps don’t improve the app unless the animations are extremely carefully designed. Often it is better not to add animations unless you have the resources to make them as perfect as they are in Timely Alarm Clock app.

The app is not only well designed but it is technologically excellent. It automatically syncs your alarmas between devices and doesn’t seem to consume much battery. This makes the app even better as an example of the best design on the platform. Functionality and design is not either or. They can live in the same app!

Everything in this app screams polish. Every screen, every transition, every animation has been polished to make them flawless. Applying this much polish to your app is not free. I don’t want to even start guessing how much time building this app took. Whatever the number is, it is long. But all that work shows. When you use the app you don’t only instantly know how to use it but you’re delighted by it time after time. This is masterclass.

Even the app website is great. The team has taken the time to showcase their app with animated images and well sectioned feature descriptions. But what is most striking to me, as an Android fan, on their website is the fact that they’ve used multiple different devices to showcase the app. I’d love to see this from more people.

I’m speechless. This is the best Android app I’ve ever seen. This is the one I’ll be sending to designers I work with. This is the app I’ll be referring in my presentations and this is the app that’ll be waking me up every morning.

We, as Android community, are in debt to the Timely Alarm Clock team. Hopefully companies around world will see this as a challenge and proof that you can be awesome on Android. Let’s hope that we’ll see this as a start of a trend. Let’s how the world that you can push the Android design forward and create stunning apps without breaking the guidelines. The guidelines aren’t limitations, they’re there to help you!

Now, if you haven’t yet, go to Google Play and get yourself the app that defines the next generation of Android design: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.bitspin.timely