subsurface mobile 1.0.4 feedback

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Wed Mar 30 19:14:50 PDT 2016


On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 07:17:32AM -0500, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> 
> > The trip folding in 1.0.4 however broke the dive list for me. I have it on
> > an iPhone 6 plus and scrolling is a desaster since this version. It's not
> > responding well at all, jumps around and is no longer fluid in any way
> > (1.0.3 was fine). As soon as I come to the bottom of the list and try to
> > flick back up, it results in a white screen and as soon as I try to scroll
> > up again, it jumps back down to the end plus leaving the bottom half of the
> > screen white. Havent found a way to get back up to the top of the list
> > (pushing the list up ultra slow is the only solution).
> > 
> > Dives in the list: 750
> 
> Yes, that's what I mentioned in my notes to testers. There's something odd
> going on, I think I'll revert this for the next build and work with Marco
> on a better implementation. On my iPhone 6+ this works well as long as I
> don't scoll to the very bottom of the list. I'm surprised it's so bad on
> your iPhone 6 (I thought they had the same CPU).

I will have reverted this for now and will try a different implementation
idea in the future.

> > And a few feature requests (I'm sure you already have a long list, so feel
> > free to ignore):
> > 
> > - A tap on the very top bar of the screen (where the carrier, time and
> > batterystatus are displayed) should scroll the list to the very top. This is
> > very common in iOS apps and works almost everywhere
> 
> I wonder how I'd get that tap information, most likely it's just the top
> of our screen that receives the tap (beacuse the carrier/time area is not
> part of the app). But that's a great idea. Would you please file a trac
> enhancement ticket for this?

Never mind, I have added this. The next version will scroll back to the
top if you tap on the title bar.

> > - A navigation help in the list (like the letters in the phone app) on the
> > right hand side. Display steps of 100s or 50s (instead of letters) so i can
> > jump to specific "areas" of my list. Scrolling 750 dives does take a while
> 
> That would be great for people with 100s of dives that are not organized
> in trips, so I guess the local divers. I have no idea how to do that,
> though. Still, file a trac ticket and let's see if the Kirigami folks have
> an idea.

Please still file that enhancement request.

/D


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