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Tunous / Dawn

Here lies the fork of greatest open-source Reddit app
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App rebranding #8

Open Tunous opened 5 years ago

Tunous commented 5 years ago

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)

dotvhs commented 4 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 :)

Tunous commented 4 years ago

@dotvhs Hello, do you have any new information about these designs for us?

shore-leave commented 4 years ago

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)

Dusk Dawn
App Icon tunous_dawn_dusk_icon tunous_dawn_dawn_icon
Notification Icon tunous_dawn_dusk_notification tunous_dawn_dawn_notification
Color Palette tunous_dawn_dusk_palette tunous_dawn_dawn_palette
Tunous commented 4 years ago

@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 :)

shore-leave commented 4 years ago

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shore-leave commented 4 years ago

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.

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saket commented 4 years ago

That top bar looks very nice to me!

Tunous commented 4 years ago

@shore-leave That's an interesting concept, especially with the color scheme and the top bar. Few thoughts from me:

  1. What is the meaning of icon on the right of "popular"?
  2. The toolbar is missing refresh button, going for pull to refresh is not really an option as that gesture is reserved for closing.
  3. I see that you turned the appearance of submissions upside down with subreddit info/points at the top and title at the bottom. I really like how the score appears next to title in current version and wouldn't want to have this changed. But perhaps we just need to see a design with all current features included to compare this correctly. (images, author/comments info, status text)
Minnona commented 4 years ago

That FAB button is quite big for users who don't post much.

shore-leave commented 4 years ago

@saket Thanks. Still more work to be done. At least there might be something there

@Tunous

  1. The icon to the right of popular is the (un)subscibe button. When it's checked it means that this subreddit is in your list of subscriptions, and when there's a plus it means that you can click it to subscribe. If that isn't obvious enough there's room for exploration for a more discoverable version
  2. I forgot to put that in. The top bar feels heavy to the sides, so I was considering moving those top right actions to an overflow menu. That might also help with the transition when opening the account dialog. Right now the expanding sheet we use would need to work around the items below it on the bar. I noticed that the only 3-dot overflow menus in the app are opened by swipe gestures. Is that a requirement?
  3. That is fine. I have no preference to how the score shows, except that I would like it to not push the submission titles different amounts. Maybe a set reserved minimum space for it to cover 3 digits being displayed, which it can expand past for the rare posts with over 100k?

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

shore-leave commented 4 years ago

@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

saket commented 4 years ago

The notification icon is barely visible

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shore-leave commented 4 years ago

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.

mufeedali commented 4 years ago

@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?