Subsurface-mobile crashes

[Dirk Hohndel]

Excellent. More testing.
Darn. More bugs.

> On Apr 14, 2017, at 11:40 AM, Willem Ferguson <willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za> wrote:
> 
> Subsurface-mobile 4.6.3.231 downloaded as beta from the Play Store.
> 
> I did quite a bit of playing around on a Samsung S6 with Android 6.01. Mostly, I was quite impressed with the stability of the software. No crashes.
> 
> Problems:
> See attached screendump.
> 1) When deleting a dive from the dive list, the drawer does not align with the items on the dive list. See screen dump.

Yikes. Good catch. Definitely something we need to fix.

> 2) The dive locations are lost in the majority of cases. This is a pretty old log I am working with, though, > 2 years old. See screen dump.

Can you explain more what you mean by that? I see that several dives have no location. What is shown when you display that log on the desktop? In other words, how did they get lost?

> 3) When adding dives by hand (both mechanisms: the "+" button as well as the menu option "Add dive manually", the items are individually editable and get saved appropriately with the dive information. Dive coordinates are parsed pretty well, actually impressive. However, when I add four dives manually, the previously-added dives are not shown on the list. For instance, if the newest dive on the list is dive 130 and one adds 4 manually-entered dives, then all the dives up to dive 230 are shown as well as dive 234. Dives 231-133 are not shown on the list. If another dive is added manually, dive 234 is not shown but dive 235 is shown.

That's just weird. Ok, another thing to debug. We need more QML developers :-)

> 4) On the dive profile, the cylinder change icon on the profile is so small that one cannot recognise it unless one knows this is a gas change icon.

That's the eternal problem. With all the challenges in scaling things correctly, on some phones the icons are annoyingly too big, on others they are too small. I wish I had an idea how to fix this.

> The font in this version of Subsurface-mobile is very light indeed. I would have preferred a font hat is slightly heavier/robust/thicker and perhaps a bit larger. See screendump. There is really a very wide space between lines of text in the dive list and in the dive information screen, almost equivalent to double spacing. I think more effective use cold be made of the screen space.

I agree. I wonder if your phone is affected by the hack for "narrow screens" that I just undid in my very last build... on Developer->Theme information, what's the Geometry in grid units? If it's 19x... or smaller, then the very latest version will improve the font situation

> Dirk, I am so aware that you are working virtually alone on the software, doing the transition to Kirigami 2. Please be aware that it is extremely highly appreciated.

No, Marco keeps helping out. Without him I would have long given up. He deserves a lot of that credit.

/D