The next few items on the roadmap are all kind of small. I’m just going to try to knock as many of them down as I can before the next release!
Progress so far:
- Added support for clicking Lemmy links. Clicking on Lemmy links from within the app should open them within the app.
- When navigating back from post screen -> post feed, the post will be highlighted briefly to show where you were looking last on the screen.
- Added double press back to exit
- Tapping back from “Saved” or “History” screen will move to the “Home” screen instead of existing the app.
- Fixed a bug where tapping a post would cause it to appear 3 times in your history
- Fixed a bug where sentences are not auto capitalized in the comment editor
- Added swipe to go back gesture for the post screen.
- Refresh score of comment/post after vote is submitted to the server
- Added layout where the content for posts is on the right hand side to make it easier for people browsing with larger phones
Update
I was initially going to get a release out tonight but swipe to go back literally took all night to implement (if swipe to go back wasn’t such an intuitive gesture I would probably have just stopped implementing it). I have work tomorrow so unfortunately I will not be able to make a release today. I’ll aim for a release tomorrow morning. Gnight!
Update2
A release early today is looking impossible. I’m super swamped at work and I noticed some bugs in the app during testing, so I would be unhappy with the state of the app had I released it right now. The release is going to have to wait until after work.
Update3
Release will be ready soon. ~1 hour?
Update4
Adding swipe to go back added so many bugs. Found some more testing the release. It should finally be ready now though… Releasing now. Should be live in the play store in a couple of hours.
Update5
Found a bad bug while the release was getting reviewed. Will have to bump to 0.1.11.
This app is getting better every day, and still by far ahead of all others apps. I have 7 of them installed lol.
If I can just throw some suggestions, I would love a rework of most buttons into gestures:
Swipe left to vote like Relay for Reddit. I never used this when it was initially implemented but now it’s muscle memory, and having all the upvote/downvote buttons in the comments feels cluttered
Maybe you could replace the post-reply button with a full-width compose semi-textbox that actually opens the reply activity?
Also similar to Relay, I would really like sliding from the left to go back. I don’t need to open my list of communities from within a post
Some things not gesture related:
Auto-capitalize sentences in comments. Right now I need to manually press the shift button. I think it’s just a TextBox XML property so should be 30s of work
Option to refresh subscriptions, since my server (lemmy.ml) tends to have API errors due to being overloaded
Seeing upvote/downvote count update when I vote. Right now I have to reload the page first
The font seems hardcoded, is there a way to use the standard system font (Roboto)?
Once again, thanks a lot for the work, this app is by far my favourite one even without any of these suggestions! The performance is incredible, haven’t seen it drop a single frame
Morning! I just saw this comment. First of all thank you so much for the detailed feedback! I will try to address it the best that I can.
This one is tough. Not implementation wise but decision wise. The issue is this gesture would essentially make the community pane unusable. So this isn’t a decision of whether to add swipe to vote, it’s a decision of getting rid of the community pane in favor of swipe to vote. I think I’m just going to have to let this one stew for a bit before I make a final decision.
A bit offtopic but IMO one of the issues with adding too many gestures is the app loses it’s intuitiveness, when I think the biggest benefit of gestures is intuitiveness. When too many different gestures exist with no clear planning and reason, each gesture just ends up feeling kind of arbitrary. I think swipe to vote makes no sense from a intuitiveness standpoint but it is more of a “clean UI” solution.
I assume you only mean to do this for the post otherwise if every comment had this, reading comments would be incredibly annoying. I don’t particularly like this idea because it uses a lot of screen space. I am however planning on adding a FAB (Floating Action Button) in the bottom right for common actions such as replying.
This is already planned. The currently plan is I will try to implement this after work. If it takes me longer than a day I might have to move it to the roadmap since currently this isn’t a “core feature”. The main challenge with this one will be performance. Swipe back gesture is fine but the issue will be to keep around the back screen (the posts screen) so a preview of it can be shown when you slide. I’ll be keeping performance in mind while I implement this.
Thank you for reporting this. This will be fixed in the next update. This is a bug I missed during testing because I use an emulator to test 95% of the time. On an emulator I just used my keyboard to type comments.
I noticed this sometimes. The issue is rare from my experience so I never prioritized fixing it, but I can try to see if I can fix it for next update.
I agree with your current decision right now regarding swipe to upvote. It seems unintuitive to me and with how tall my phone is, I assume there’s going to be a lot of mistake upvotes. I’ve tried another app with multiple actions that are triggered by varying degrees of swiping and it I would have to consciously control my swipes which seems harder than simply pressing a button.
I use both current gestures to the left and right and the community pane is pretty important. If anything, it allows easier access to rules or info for reference. I would like this to stay the same though I can suggest adding the community pane through the three dots/hamburger menu at the top like my previous reddit app.
This is a known bug. I will try to get a fix for the next update.
There is no way to change the font at the moment. I’ll add it to the roadmap under settings. The app currently uses the system default font. On my test devices the default font is Roboto. If you are using a weird device with custom fonts it might not be Roboto.