Open Tunous opened 5 years ago
@dotvhs Any progress on the designs, did you manage to find time to export them for app and store?
Sorry for lack of answer, real life sometimes hits hard. Expect those icons this weekend. I will also prepare notification icons too in few versions and I'll let you guys pick :)
@dotvhs Hello, do you have any new information about these designs for us?
Because it has been a while since @dotvhs (hope you're ok, also hope it's ok to modify your work like this) checked in I tried to continue the work they had done on the icons.
Changes I made:
All in all, would like feedback. Can provide source (.afdesign or rendered .svg)
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@shore-leave Great work!
There are few things that we need to implement this correctly.
First of all for the Play Store icon we'll need 512x512 png image. There is a link with exact details about what is needed: https://developer.android.com/google-play/resources/icon-design-specifications#attributes (I can see that there are also templates at the bottom of he page but have no idea if these are of any use)
Next for the adaptive icon we'll need two layers. If possible the best option would be to get both of them exported to xml format understood by Android. If not then two png images in 512x512 should be good too. https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_adaptive here is some more information about this.
For splash screen I’m not sure, perhaps the same images as for adaptive icon will work.
As for the notification icon, svg will be good :)
Up next:
Putting this out here as a possible direction to take the app UI. Feedback would be appreciated. The color scheme will be replacing the current one to match the rest of the new app branding.
That top bar looks very nice to me!
@shore-leave That's an interesting concept, especially with the color scheme and the top bar. Few thoughts from me:
That FAB button is quite big for users who don't post much.
@saket Thanks. Still more work to be done. At least there might be something there
@Tunous
My focus overall is to get the color scheme changed, and explore a small part of improving UX. If the colors look good I can start implementing that
Edit: I'm also noticing now on my phone that the main color looks a little muted. I'm not surprised because my monitor is very bright and saturated. Just let me know if you see anything that looks off
@elenmerbau Noted! I think the standard is for those to shrink down to a regular FAB on scroll down
Speaking about scrolling down: I didn't mention this earlier, but the top row of the top bar would scroll out of view when you scroll down. The bottom actions that relate to the subreddit you are in would stay on screen
The notification icon is barely visible
Thanks for pointing that out @saket. I was worried it would look that way. What screen resolution is the device you are using? From looking at it I would guess that I need to scale up the white parts by 2x.
I always have trouble guessing how it will look at small sizes, so it would be nice to get a way to test them in the app. Maybe someone can implement that. I could also build a template in Affinity Designer to help test how they look at different resolutions.
@shore-leave Isn't it okay for both Dusk and Dawn to use the same notification icon? Dawn's notification icon is great from a design perspective, but not visible enough on smaller displays. Maybe just use Dusk's icon instead?
A lot of people didn't like the name Dank for the app. Perhaps it's a good time to change the name to something which would sound more professional? I personally very like the name Seek which someone shared in dank's subreddit previously but I'm open to other ideas.
@saket are you ok with this, or maybe you have other suggestions? Also while I have a chance do you have any idea how we could work out to make the app available on the play store? I technically could create my own signing keys and upload them under my account (package name would change with rebranding to avoid conflict) but it kind of feels weird to have my name as the developer since you've made almost all of the work with it. (I can contact you somewhere else if you prefer)