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Quizlet Download Preview #205

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What is the feature you want?
To be able to preview as much information about the card set as possible before 
downloading it.

How important is it to you?
This is very important because there are so many sets on Quizlet that have 
duplicate names and so there needs to be a way to determine that you the set 
you are downloading is the correct one.

Do you think other people also want this feature and why?
Yes I do. Because people don't want to waist their time (and data usage quota) 
downloading the wrong sets and this will keep that from happening.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by scottmcr...@gmail.com on 19 Apr 2013 at 2:41

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Does Flashcards Deluxe  load up all cards in that list?

Original comment by mrlhwlib...@gmail.com on 19 Apr 2013 at 9:31

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Yes it does.

Original comment by scottmcr...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2013 at 3:42

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Then, I think it doesn't save the bandwidth to download the whole thing. The 
only difference is that AnyMemo will try to write image and db file, which will 
consume some time.

Original comment by mrlhwlib...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2013 at 5:53

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
If you end up downloading the incorrect file and so then have to "try again", 
then yes, it does spend bandwidth unnecessarily, not to mention waist the users 
time. Please try searching for the following & you'll see what the confusion 
can be. Imagine you're my student and I ask you to look up and study the set 
that has this sequence of characters in it: SQS04 
What do you see? 4 sets that look almost identical. So which one do you study? 
This is why you need a preview. 
Please see attached file
Thank you
Scott

Original comment by scottmcr...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2013 at 2:28

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Is displaying only description, author and updated date helpful in this case?

Original comment by mrlhwlib...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2013 at 9:41

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Author or "Creator" is very important because only one set was created by me, 
the teacher and the rest were copied and possibly changed in some way. The 
preview shown above though, also shows the cards in the set;the term, 
definition and even the picture.

Thank you

Original comment by scottmcr...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2013 at 11:20

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
How diplaying these information when you are about to download:

Example:
"title":"SAT Quack! - Set 4 NarJrSr-EngVoc-SQS04"
"created_by":"Narada_Jr-Sr_High"
"term_count":20
"created_date":1362235051,
"description":"New Town High School AVID program\nBaltimore County Public School
s\nFlashcards created by Jodi Grosser, AVID Coordinator\nWords taken from 
Teacher's Discovery SAT Qua
ck! video series"

Original comment by mrlhwlib...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2013 at 11:24

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
That looks great ("created by" being the most important piece of info) but if 
possible, it would be even better if the preview could show the actual cards in 
the set as in the Flashcards Deluxe example above. If that's too difficult 
though then at least the "created by" is there.

Thanks,
Scott

Original comment by scottmcr...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2013 at 11:40

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by mrlhwlib...@gmail.com on 22 Apr 2013 at 2:57

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Ok added information displayed when you download a deck. Today's nightly build 
will have this change.
It is quite difficult display a list without first downloading the whole thing. 
To do that, I will download the db to a temporarily place file and use list 
mode to display it. But this approach will take the same or more time than just 
downloading it yourself.

Original comment by mrlhwlib...@gmail.com on 22 Apr 2013 at 4:31

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Ok, sounds great. And I think that the users will really like the opportunity 
to see the list of cards 1st like this. This way they are not blind to what 
they are downloading before they download it. Thanks for your work.

Sincerely,
Scott

Original comment by scottmcr...@gmail.com on 22 Apr 2013 at 4:40

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Well, in the approach I described above, the db will be downloaded in order to 
generate the preview. So, it is like previewing is quite slow (Download db and 
do preview), but downloading will be lightning fast (Move the file from tmp to 
anymemo directory).

Original comment by mrlhwlib...@gmail.com on 23 Apr 2013 at 1:07

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I understand. I still think that this is a good thing and will be appreciated 
by the users. By the way, could the list view be kept or added as another view 
option? The current "card list" option is kind of messy and difficult to read 
if there are pictures on the cards because of the pic name being so long and 
having so many odd characters like: /><img scr="rkarjnkkrjck57hdh45_mjpg"/>

Just a thought :)
Scott
PS. Can't wait to see this latest update though :)

Original comment by scottmcr...@gmail.com on 23 Apr 2013 at 3:26

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Ok, I will leave the list preview feature pending for a little while unless 
there are more people requesting it since it is not easy to do and I can't 
apply it to other downloading source easily.

The list mode doesn't parse the HTML tags, I did this because the performance 
on old Android 1.6 and 2.2 devices are very very poor. I will eventually allow 
HTML to be parsed and images to be displayed.

The latest version can be downloaded from nightly build system. Go to 
anymemo.org and click nightly build on the left. You need to remove the current 
free version to install it though (And you need to remove the nightly build in 
order to install google play version or beta versions). You can also wait a few 
days for me to release a beta2.

Original comment by mrlhwlib...@gmail.com on 23 Apr 2013 at 6:01

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Okay, I downloaded the nighty build after deleting my previous versions and it 
looks great! The info that's there now, especially "Author" is so important and 
really will relieve a lot of confusion on the user's end (my and I'm sure other 
teacher's students end) - they'll know they have the set that the teacher made 
for them and not somebody elses set.
Thank you so much!
Scott

Original comment by scottmcr...@gmail.com on 23 Apr 2013 at 6:55

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Fixed

Original comment by mrlhwlib...@gmail.com on 17 Jul 2013 at 9:34