Fwd: Re: mobile ui

[Miika Turkia]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 08:21:40PM +0000, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>> Thanks, William.
>>
>> On Thursday, December 03, 2015 21:59:40 Willem Ferguson wrote:
>> > As reported by others previously, several icons are showing as black
>> > squares (2 or 3 on main screen, drawer button at bottom centre of
>> > screen). This is on ARM APK daily executable build downloaded today.
>> > Maybe my Android is too old (V4.3 on Galaxy SIII)? When I set up cloud
>> > access and press SAVE, then focus returns to main screen (I think as it
>> > should).
>>
>> I think my most current device is Android 5. I can try to dust up something
>> older, and try there.
>
> 4.3 is Jelly Bean. That's pretty ancient. Yet, based on
> http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html it seems that as
> of today 29% of the Android users are on various versions of Jelly Bean
> (4.1 through 4.3). Sad. But I guess we can't ignore that user base.
>
>> > Selecting LOAD from the main screen more or less locks up
>> > Subsurface in a permanent internet IO state. My router is working like
>> > crazy sending and receiving, but Subsurface apparently struggles to load
>> > FIVE dives from the cloud (ancient hardware/OS/small screen?). After 30
>> > minutes I killed the app with an app killer. I checked my cloud
>> > credentials and I am pretty sure they're ok. Loading and saving from/to
>> > cloud using the desktop version no problem.
>>
>> One issue is that there's currently little feedback, obviously, we'll also
>> need to debug what's churning there.
>
> So git storage totally SUCKS on phones if you have pictures stored in git.
> This is on my massive todo list as one of the things I need to urgently
> clean up. We cannot store the pictures in git. And because of the way git
> works, even if we remove them now, people who stored them at some point
> will still have massively huge repositories. We have one user who has a
> 1.9G repository on cloud.subsurface-divelog.org. I don't even want to
> think what that would mean if they open that from a phone...
>
> so I need to
> a) come up with a better way to store pictures when using cloud storage
> b) come up with a way to remove all that data from existing repos once we
> switch over
>
> Sigh. I begged people to try this. For months. But of course we find this
> after the public release.

Well, I have been complaining about slow git sync on desktop since
January, IIRC over an hour for initial sync when in the Philippines.
And git sync taking hours on my tablet since you made the APK
available.

miika