latest Android apk

[Dirk Hohndel]

> On Jan 4, 2016, at 7:24 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 07:44:39AM +0200, Miika Turkia wrote:
>>> 
>>> I installed the daily build on my Nexus 9. And found some glitches.
>>> 
>>> The biggest one was a repeatable crash. This happens with the sequence:
>>> 1. Install APK and open
>>> 2. Login to Cloud
>>> 3. Dive list displayed and dives can be viewed.
>>> 4. Use the Navigation bar to go back to Android main screen
> 
> You mean the soft buttons on your Android device (which change icon an
> meaning, depending on Android version)?
> 
>>> 5. Use the square navigation button to display applications, then swipe to
>>> shutdown subsurface.
>>> 6. Restart subsurface
>>>     List of dives comes back
>>> 7. Try and open dive... crash
> 
> Doesn't happen for me. Tried with 4.3 and 6.0

Finally reproduced this earlier today - and have not the slightest idea what's 
causing it. No useful data in the adb logcat output :-(
I'll have to pepper a build with qDebug() messages to narrow down where 
this is happening.

>>> Another minor bug, is that if the cloud password is not entered correctly on
>>> the initial setup,
>>> the program just jumps back to setup screen with no error message.
>> 
>> I sent a patch for this a day or two ago, but it has not yet been
>> reviewed by Dirk.
> 
> Sorry, I was trying to wrap my mind around QML and simply ignored
> everything else. My mind is bent out of shape and I still don't understand
> 90% of what's going on, so I stopped this for now and will go back to
> actually maintaining the software. Your patches have been applied but not
> tested, yet.

This is now pushed and included in the latest builds.

>>> A cosmetic glitch is that there is some symbol with two squares and a x
>>> inside a circle at the bottom of many
>>> screens. Haven't seen this with other apps, and it doesn't seem to do
>>> anything.
>> 
>> Isn't that an icon indicating that you can swipe left/right to view
>> menu or other screens. It should also have triangles to left and right
>> if you have other screens available that way. (To be honest, I find it
>> a bit odd as well.)
> 
> This is the direction the KDE Plasma Mobile team is going.
> 
> We have a single developer who actually understands QML from what I can
> tell. So his decisions carry a lot of weight. I'm not sure I'm in love
> with this UI concept, either, but if Sebastian wants to do this and no one
> else steps up with an alternative UI implementation, then that's what
> we'll do.

Well, after playing some more with it I decided to remove the action button and
go with two menu buttons in the top bar instead. It's not as cool and exciting as
the action button, but it follows the principle of least surprise. Most people will 
quickly figure out how these work.

Also in the latest builds.

>>> A couple of enhancements or things I expect were missing (most of these were
>>> mentioned
>>> before).
>>> A. Would be good to have standard menu accessed by triple bar in top left
>>> corner
> 
> Why? I find the slider menu from the left much more in line with what
> modern applications do. I'll admit that I'd prefer to use a triple bar in
> the corner to get to that menu, but that's a different question.
> 
> A "standard menu" (a drop down that you pick from) is a mouse / desktop
> based concept from the 1980s. I'll admit that I'm shocked how many modern
> mobile applications still use that - but it's usually used for "advanced,
> rarely used features" and not for the main menu of an application.

Just to reiterate - I removed the action button that you had to drag left or right
to open the drawer(s). I did NOT change the drawers to 90s style drop down
menus

/D