Handle long text better

[Discostu36]

The app doesn't show the full text in several places. I don't know if the German strings are longer than the English ones or if it is has to do with standard font size of the device, but the app should handle this in a better way.

Android 12 Fairphone 4

[Discostu36]

It seems it has to do with Android font size settings. Above screenshot is not with standard but big font size.

[TylerWilliamson]

The German strings are typically longer than English ones and there is not much I can do about that. Same for large fonts and/or small screens. It's very difficult to both accomodate those situations and show all the text on the screen. Do you have suggestions for how it could be improved?

[Discostu36]

I think it's good from an accessibility perspective that you respect device font settings while other apps seem to simply use hard coded font sizes.

For the hourly view you could try different approaches:

• Scroll text that is too wide automatically from left to right and back (maybe too distracting)
• Make text area manually scrollable by user (touch and drag)
• Break text into two lines (make container higher in that case, vertically center elements)

The current conditions container could get another line if text doesn't fit. Alternatively, only show third line when user extends the element.

[TylerWilliamson]

I think I will make the forecast cards scrollable horizontally and the current conditions multi-line. There's some technical troubles with doing that due to the current conditions animations, but I will try to include these fixes in a later release

[ghost]

Hi, I’m the guy who translated the app in French. I have the same problem with French strings, especially with "Today" being translated to "Aujourd’hui". Only "Aujour" appears, and the top of the following letters. I can’t think of a shorter word.

I made some mistakes I just corrected. Nothing really ugly, but maybe you shouldn’t wait too long before releasing a new version with the updated translation. Sorry for that.

Btw thank you very much for this awesome app, It is by far my favorite weather app. I ride a motorbike and being able to see the radar as soon as I open the app is very useful.

[TylerWilliamson]

First off, thank you for translating the app to French! I appreciate the work, and the French users will appreciate it too.

I just pushed a new version a few minutes ago, but I'll hopefully be pushing a fix next week to resolve the issue with the longer words by making sections scrollable

[TylerWilliamson]

Fixed in 2.4.0

[TylerWilliamson]

I made the detail cards scrollable in 2.4.0, but have not yet resolved the issue in the main card. In the next update, it will be multi-line. Until then, I am reopening this ticket

[TylerWilliamson]

Actually fixed in 2.4.1