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ingress.com/intel total conversion user script with some new features. Should allow easier extension of the intel map.
http://iitc.jonatkins.com/
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Scaling portal size to level doesn't work as well on mobile #191

Closed JoeSyr closed 11 years ago

JoeSyr commented 11 years ago

I'm running 0.2.8 on a Galaxy Nexus and I find that the default behavior of higher level = bigger circle on map doesn't work as well on my phone as it does on the desktop. On the smaller screen it results in the map getting cluttered easier when the portal density gets high enough, and I find that I can't reliably infer the exact level without checking the info tab anyway (this is true on desktop as well, but it is much more fluid to click on a portal there than it is to be switching tabs on mobile). It does give a rough idea of which portals are higher level than others but I don't find that too be very useful information on its own.

Would it be possible to include an option to toggle this behavior on and off? I have read the discussion on the plugin proposed to show portal level as a number and I think that would be the better default behavior on the mobile as well. Would it be possible to bake that in, or would that need to be a plugin? (I know plugins for mobile are pending as of now).

rongou commented 11 years ago

Totally agree. This essentially makes the mobile IITC app unusable in my opinion. I find myself constantly going for the Ingress Realtime Map app.

leCradle commented 11 years ago

Since Monday, IITC Mobile is able to include plugins...so let's wait until https://github.com/jonatkins/ingress-intel-total-conversion/pull/104 is finished and it should work on IITC Mobile.

leCradle commented 11 years ago

@JoeMarciano @rongou if you can't wait, here is an apk which includes the portal-level-layer plugin http://iitcm.code-noobs.org/IITC-Mobile-including-portal-level-layer.apk

Note:

  1. It is signed with my debug key, so you have to remove the old app first (if you don't install from code-noobs per default)
  2. As @jonatkins mentioned, the plugin clashes with the keys_on_map plugin...so you should disable it for using the portal-level-layer
  3. It seems to work quite well, but the plugin is not done yet...!

Have fun... :)

JoeSyr commented 11 years ago

Thanks! Looks good so far. In addition to the information they provide, I think the numbers also alleviate the cluttering problem a bit. Not by actually reducing the clutter, but the labeling makes it easier to process a cluster of portals at a glance, rather than staring at a blob and trying to count how many circles it consists of.