G'day everyone, Ian Fieggen here,
and welcome to my “Ian's Laces App” for Android!
Now this app contains 69 different shoe lacing methods
that I've either collected or created over the years.
There's a range of traditional and modern methods,
as well as functional, decorative,
special purpose – even military lacing methods.
Each method – quite simple, you just tap on the choice.
You get a large diagram.
You can step through the mode step-by-step.
There's a photo that shows the finished result.
“Info” button that shows a little bit of information
about the ... method and how to lace it.
And on methods that have a variation for
even or odd number of eyelet– eyelet pairs,
you've got these two buttons there for the
“Even” or “Odd”, and the “Info” button will show you
what the variation is and how it– how it's changed.
Now, the other thing is if you
rotate the device into “landcape” mode,
you'll get a smaller diagram
that's still nonetheless useable
and a photo alongside.
That makes it a little bit simpler if you want to see
the finished result and the photo.
Now you also see a condensed list of ... methods.
Makes it a bit quicker to scroll through.
Or you can actually use the menus here
to filter it by just the “Decorative”, “Functional”
or “Military” methods, for example.
Here you can see that there's only
ten methods classed as “Military”.
So, that's the “Lacing” methods.
Now we've got the “Tying” methods.
There's 22 different shoelace knots.
These are the two ones that most people tend to use.
There's my own “Ian Knot”,
the world's fastest shoelace knot.
That's actually what started me on this whole
path in shoelacing.
And it has a large diagram with simple,
one-line instructions.
Or – similarly to the other one –
– if you rotate it
you get a slightly different view that's got
a smaller photo or diagram
with more detailed instructions.
That's a photo of the finished knot
and – again – we've got an “Information” button
that tells you a little bit about the knot.
And there's– so they're the three
sort of “most common” knots.
Then we've got “Secure Shoelace Knots” –
– there's quite a variety that people
have invented over the years,
including my own quite complicated ones
like my “Mega Ian Knot”.
On that one,
the finished result you can see it's got this
sort of “triple-wrap” around the middle
that makes it quite secure.
And there's even some “Special Purpose Knots”
like knots that they use for decorative things,
there's a “One Handed” shoelace knot for–
obviously for people either with
temporary or permanent disabilities.
And ... yeah –
– there's even how to tie the “Starting Knots”.
So that's the app in its basics.
There's actually three different versions of the app.
There's the “Regular” one,
there's a “Free” version, which is similar –
– got slightly lower resolution images
that makes it smaller to download
and there's small ads down the bottom
that helps pay for the ad– pay for the app.
And for those with ... higher definition devices
like– like “Pad”– or “Tablet”–type devices
with larger screens,
the “HD” app has much higher resolution images.
Here it looks the same on my small device but
on a larger device you'll see a much sharper image.
So that's “Ian's Laces” app for Android.
I hope you enjoyed the video
and that you consider downloading.
Thanks for watching!