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zamojski / TowerCollector

The OpenCellID and MLS contributor's app.
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Can't tell if there's more text without wiggling the screen #136

Open jidanni opened 3 years ago

jidanni commented 3 years ago

Screenshot_20210731-134655.jpg If this window ended at exactly the end of a paragraph, nobody would know if there was another paragraph following it. The reason is that the scroll bars are missing. Sure the scroll bar appears but it only lasts a couple seconds and then it disappears. So after it does you can't tell if there's anything more remaining unless you wiggle the screen to find out. Sure you might say this is an Android issue, well then please report it to Android. Thank you.

In the above image we can tell there's something more because there's an incomplete sentence at the end. But if that wasn't the case then it would be a mystery requiring the user to scroll up and down to see if there's something remaining.

At least an arrow pointing down should appear to indicate there's something more remaining. In fact that would be more obvious then a scrollbar indicating that there's more to be seen. But in fact both would be best: an arrow, and a scroll bar.

jidanni commented 3 years ago

Note that I am not discussing anything about what the text says I'm just talkin about the frame around the text.

jidanni commented 3 years ago

I mean I'm not talking about keeping the screen on when collecting or anything like that.

zamojski commented 3 years ago

That's actually the default Android behavior but I will check if it's possible to improve it.

jidanni commented 3 years ago

Maybe is expected that everybody's eyes are glued to the message when it appears so they know if there's a scroll bar for the three seconds that it exists. Odd that it's so different than desktop...

zamojski commented 3 years ago

I tried to improve it but I failed... I might come back to this later but for me this is a low priority issue.