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  • Dan 11:18 am on February 12, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
    Tags: post editor, ui   

    While working on #411 I also took a crack at modernizing the post editor view. Changes:

    • Removed old headers and used more placeholders or Holo style mini-headers
    • Removed the ‘full screen editing mode’ as it was the cause for #411, and instead changed the content box to expand as more content is added.
    • Removed custom WP buttons and used default ‘lite’ buttons instead.
    • Changed ‘Selected categories’ TextView to only show if categories have been selected or already added to the post.
    • Moved publish/save button to the ActionBar.

    I’m not convinced that the ‘Save’ disk icon is best there, but I’m not sure what else would convey ‘Publish’ in an icon format :)

    Thoughts?

     

  • Dan 4:45 pm on January 31, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
    Tags: ui   

    Added a fairly giant commit for initial ActionBarSherlock support in r888. @willnorris, I hope it doesn’t conflict too much with the work you’ve already done with the menu.

     

    • Will Norris 9:52 am on February 1, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      not at all. This already looks *so* much better!

    • Koke 4:43 am on February 4, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Did you actually mean to remove libs/android-support-v4.jar? I’m getting build errors now

      • Danilo 5:16 am on February 4, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        You need to have ActionBarSherlock added to Eclipse as a Library project. Details: ​http://actionbarsherlock.com/usage.html

        • Koke 7:23 am on February 4, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          Yeah, I managed to get it working but had to edit the project properties and point the library to the new location

      • Dan 7:34 am on February 4, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Yeah, I removed it because ActionBarSherlock included the support library in it. It would be nice to include the ActionBarSherlock files in the repo somehow. Any ideas?

        • Danilo 8:11 am on February 4, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          Can you create ActionBarSherlock.jar and include it in libs?

          • Dan 8:16 am on February 4, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

            It can’t be used as a jar, from the FAQ:

            Why is ActionBarSherlock a library project whereas the original compatibility library is only a .jar?

            The custom action bar implementation within ActionBarSherlock relies on styles, themes, layouts, and drawables in order to display properly. Due to the limitations of Android and .jar files, this currently can not be accomplished any other way.

        • Will Norris 10:41 am on February 4, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          I’ve been looking again at migrating WPAndroid to use maven for building, which would address this.

  • Dan 1:21 pm on December 2, 2011 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
    Tags: , ui,   

    @ievolver, I’ve been working on the few remaining touches to WPAndroid 2.0, I took the quick photo icon from WPiOS, lightened it up a bit and put it on the formatting toolbar. I wish it could convey ‘video’ somehow as well but I think it works for now.

    screenie

     

    • Isaac Keyet 7:42 am on December 5, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I like it, although I did make an Android specific icon (it’s very similar). This works but we should update it again if we have time – a + next to it would make sense, too.

  • huxuan 5:28 am on April 1, 2011 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    Hello Everyone, I have posted the ‘Specific UI Improvement of WordPress for Android’ on http://blog.huxuan.org/gsoc-2011-specific-ui-improvement-of-wordpress-for-android/ with a little update for ‘Draft Proposal – Refresh the Android App UI’ which is on http://blog.huxuan.org/gsoc-2011-draft-proposal-refresh-the-android-app-ui/, Thx for your attention and any suggestion or feedback is welcome.

     

    • josh powell 1:45 am on February 28, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      There is apparently a bunch to know about this. I believe you made various good points in features also.

  • Dan 11:31 am on February 18, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
    Tags: ui   

    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 :D

    Also wondering if the bottom button bar is necessary. Should those actions be moved to the menu button’s pop up menu? Thoughts?

     

    • 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.

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