Just wanted to share an idea I’m working on to get rid of the annoying pop-up progress dialogs in the app. This is less ‘in your face’ and allows you to move on to other tabs instead of waiting for the refresh to complete.
Note: The framerate isn’t that slow on a device, it’s the emulator on my slow mac I’m currently developing on 
Also wondering if the bottom button bar is necessary. Should those actions be moved to the menu button’s pop up menu? Thoughts?
Dan, 
Gwolle, and 
Gwolle are discussing. 
Gwolle 11:45 am on February 18, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
What about an entry in the context menu? If that “refresh icon” at the bottom is the only thing in that bar I’d remove it. Are there other items you may want to include in that bar?
Dan 11:50 am on February 18, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
The other tabs add a ‘+’ icon for adding a new post or page to the bar on the left side. That’s all that’s on there though so i think the context menu might be better. Most android users are used to the context menu, I hope.
Gwolle 12:20 pm on February 18, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Just checked out the source and compiled it myself. Liked the new “loading” message, but I think it’s kind of too big. What about a small message in the status bar, like “Loading comments…” or so? I’d not remove the bottom bar, since it is present on both pages and posts windows.
Gwolle 12:24 pm on February 18, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
The video looks like you removed the “Long press on a [comment|post|page] to view actions” note, didn’t you? Looks more professional, I think, because most Android users know how to handle list items.
Dan 12:25 pm on February 18, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Yeah, I don’t think that’s needed either. I like the idea of showing the ‘Loading’ in the bottom bar, I’ll give that a try.