initial Fastlane structure

RayLeaf-Studios / PocketPlan

A simplistic Android app, designed to take care of everyday tasks.

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initial Fastlane structure #31

Closed IzzySoft closed 2 years ago

IzzySoft commented 2 years ago

Initial fastlane structure as discussed in #14. A few notes:

be welcome to use my Fastlane Cheat Sheet to build on this
you might wish to replace the screenshots by "better quality/resolution". Looks like I'm preaching the choir with this, but my usual hint: keep mobile users with small screens and low bandwidth in mind, i.e. keep the (file) sizes reasonable and rather avoid framing :wink:
some formatting hints for the full_description.txt can be found in my wiki. I recommend what I called there "Markdown lite", as it proved to work well with all involved parties so far (all other variants have "strange results" for at least one of them).

Should there be questions, feel free to ask!

IzzySoft commented 2 years ago

Speed cam alert :rofl: That was fast, thanks! Cleaning up then on my end.

mvnowak commented 2 years ago

Its called fast-lane for a reason! What specific resolution would you recommend for the screenshots?

IzzySoft commented 2 years ago

Its called fast-lane for a reason!

:rofl:

What specific resolution would you recommend for the screenshots?

I use 350px width (portrait) in my repo, trying to keep each screenshot below 50kb (here: around 25kb). My updater automatically takes care for that, but AFAIK F-Droid just takes them as-is. If you feel it should be 700px, that should be OK. But if each screenshot is > 100kb (I've seen them exceeding 1 Mb at times), that might hurt those on low bandwidth. So it's mostly about finding a good compromise.

My argument usually is: screenshots here should give an idea about how the app looks like. It's not their intention to serve as high-res graphics gallery for art fans :smile:

mvnowak commented 1 year ago

Hey @IzzySoft quick question, I recently (2 weeks ago) updated the phone screenshots in the fastlane directory, but F-Droid now shows a mix of the new and the old screenshots, do you have any idea why? Does it just take time on the side of F-Droid to properly update this, or does it by design show screenshots from old releases as well?

IzzySoft commented 1 year ago

Let me take an educated guess: you've removed oldies and added new ones using different names? If so: congrats for confirming that old bug is still alive :cry: Repository keeps deleted screenshots

mvnowak commented 1 year ago

Yep, I deleted old ones (01.jpg - 04.jpg) and replaced them with (01.png - 08.png)😁 Do you think when i upload them as jpg again they might get updated properly? Or should I just wait for the F-Droid BugFix

IzzySoft commented 1 year ago

Currently you'd not get rid of what was once put up (that bug haunts us for at least 5 years now). So to get rid of the two old ones you'd need to add a screenshot for each to overwrite it, using the very same names (i.e. 01.jpg to 04.jpg). As the bug sits there for 5 years now not being solved, while brought up at least twice a year, I wouldn't place my bets on it being fixed within weeks.

mvnowak commented 1 year ago

Thanks, I think that's what I'll try. I will also just use the opportunity to get the file size to ~50kb as you previously advised, since I noticed they are a bit high in resolution😁

IzzySoft commented 1 year ago

I will also just use the opportunity to get the file size to ~50kb

Thanks! In my repo, the updater takes care for that, but F-Droid.org just takes it mostly as-is IIRC (at least, to my knowledge, there's no resizing – while in my repo the updater always resizes screenshots to max 350 px on the small side).