latest Android apk

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 15:14:57 -0800
Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> 
> > 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.

I will try today's build if it helps.

> 
> >>> 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.


I started to read up on QML and the Android UI practices.
What I was talking about was using a Googlish (ala gmail/plus etc)
Navigation drawer 
   https://www.google.com/design/spec/patterns/navigation-drawer.html