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Issues, bug reports and feedbacks for the Pathfinder 2e Battle tracker android application.
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Discussion: support for landscape mode #8

Open swaters83 opened 8 months ago

swaters83 commented 8 months ago

I'm messing with this on a Samsung tablet, it seems cool but portrait only makes it less appealing for tablet users. Would it be possible to support a landscape mode?

314r-app commented 8 months ago

Hello, thank you for your feedback.

This is indeed something I had in mind. I already don't like the current layout of the tracker in very wide screens. My plan was to put everything on a single line in wide screen in order to avoid the 'lost space' in the middle of each line for each characters. But this seems insufficient to have a good look in a landscape orientation for tablet as there will still be a lot of empty space on each line.

The other option would be to cut the screen in two vertically, display the tracker in one side and something else in the other side. But so far I don't know what to display exactly. It could be simply a pf2easytools page, displayed with the multi-windows features of some tablets (but that has to be done by each user).

Do you have any other suggestions on how to improve the look and usability in a wide screen ?

swaters83 commented 8 months ago

I'll have to put some thought into it. I do like the idea of splitting it though. Perhaps the stats of the creature, the page displays the creature the user pressed.

Edit: I use a foldable phone as well. I'll be sure and pay around with it and see how it works on that.

314r-app commented 7 months ago

I released a first update for this milestone. There is now 2 different layout for the tracker. The previous one and one for wide screen with less lines and more information in each lines. The layout are selected dynamically depending on the current width of the screen.

And then I added a landscape mode that use this new layout if needed.

What is missing is an improvment of the design for very wide screen (like a landscape tablet, above ~1200~1400 dp of width.). Eg with the double column mentionned above. Also, I need to update the top and bottom toolbar design in this case.