haptic-apps/slide

Slide is an open-source, ad-free Reddit browser for Android.

slide's Issues

Collapsing comments - fold actual comment?

enhancement request:

Please make it that when you collapse a comment, it collapsed the actual comment along with that comment's children.

When collapsed, a comment can show just it's regular header, containing the OP, Vote count, time, and children count. tapping on this header will reopen the comment body and its children.

This will be very useful for Reddits with long top-level comments, like r/writing prompts.

link to a rough mockup:

TIA!!

Problem with dialogs

There's a weird outline on every dialog. It looks like a material dialog over the top of a normal KitKat dialog.

Originally on Google+, moved here for better management.

New posts do not load after you reach the bottom of any sub

/all
/frontpage
any any other sub is affected.
No autoloading of posts beyond what is initially loaded on start up.

Turn subreddit info into a right-side drawer, that, like desktop, contains both sidebar text and other stuff.

This drawer is accessible via either an edge swipe or the existing info button, or only via the swipe if you think you can train users to know that.

Consider removing swipe to exit from shadowbox mode

I've found myself accidentally exiting the view a few times instead of viewing the previous image, which in turn loses my place

force close on viewing user info

when pressing the little info button in a users profile, slide will crash.

Overhaul post customization

So you have the settings, from which you can get basically any possible hybrid of the three presets, or something else entirely.

So you also have the presets, which are just bundles of the settings. No preset is "set" as part of the stored settings, they're just applied, which changes all the settings defined in them.

Settings

View type

• Card: Self-explanatory. Form over function, with cards on a background, and of course whitespace.
• List: Self-explanatory. Separated only by dividers, with no real between-padding or side-padding. However, some padding may be necessary for the Big Picture and Infobar modes, but not much.

Link Preview

• Big Picture: That thing that's big and a picture.
• Infobar: That thing with the thumbnail, link title, and URL, in its own little separate division of the post. This is also what Big Picture reverts to when there's no suitable image.
• Thumbnail only: Only the thumbnail, find some way to also say at least what the domain is if not the important bits of the URL.

Big Picture Maximum Aspect Ratio

• Numeric Slider: Ranges from something pretty low to two, as I doubt any Android phones have a 9:21 display. If the bigpic is over the aspect ratio, perform the action defined by the next setting.

Big Picture Too-Tall Behavior

• Do Nothing: Display the picture normally anyway. May cause frustration due to vertical comic strips.
• Crop From Top: Crops the picture, leaving the top bit intact.
• Crop From Center: Crops the picture, leaving the center intact.
• Crop From Bottom: You know the drill.
• Revert to Infobar: Same behavior as if there were no suitable image for use in a bigpic at all.

Big Picture Info Overlay

That transparent thing with text that gets overlaid over the bigpic.

• Always: Display as long as there's a bigpic.
• Titles Only: Display only if the content being bigpic'd has a title in its metadata.
• Never: Never display the info overlay.

Thumbnail Placement

• Left
• Right

Action Bar

• Compact: Basically what you have now. Inline with other post metadata info, and few buttons.
• Collapsible: Basically what's present in Sync's smaller-cards and list options. A collapsible bar that appears on a maximum of one post at a time, with more buttons like save and share. Score and comments should still be visible elsewhere.

Font Size

• font size selector thing(y|ies)

Font Face

• font face selector thing(y|ies)

Presets

Compact

• View Type: List
• Link Preview: Thumbnail Only
• Action Bar: Collapsible
• Font Sizes: Pretty Damn Small

Cards

• View Type: Card
• Link Preview: Thumbnail Only
• Action Bar: Compact
• Font Sizes: Decidedly Medium

Big Cards

• View Type: Card
• Link Preview: Big Picture
• Big Picture Maximum Aspect Ratio: 1.5
• Big Picture Too-Tall Behavior: Revert to Infobar
• Info Overlay: Titles Only
• Action Bar: Compact
• Font Sizes: Arguably Large

New posts not loading

Scroll far down enough and new lost do not load. Happens on all ,frontpage, and any other sub.

Most actions without an internet connection causes a crash

Very similar to #33, open the app with an internet connection, then activate aeroplane mode and swipe through to a sub

View sidebar or view wiki in the 'all' tab results in a crash

Settings are in the wrong place

The settings should never be put on the toolbar. Settings should only be accessed on a need to basis. The toolbar is for items that you need to access frequently.

Text formatting buttons and double-tapping bugs

Formatting text buttons don't seem to do anything when replying to comment. Also, double-tapping text in the content reply box causes view to scroll and loses any text that you already typed.

https://youtu.be/J4YV1

Note 3 with 4.4.2, rooted, stock TouchWiz

"pinned" checkbox not visible in light theme

It's white on white, so it's invisible.

Minor overhaul to multi-column dialog

An option for portrait, and one for landscape, each changed by increment/decrement/reset buttons. Reset changes it to the default for that particular screen width.

Hiding and unhiding comments can cause them to dissapear

Here the video again
https://plus.google.com/108184678391223310700/posts/iDkaynEDaoc

Add long press support to posts

It would be good to have access to a few features without entering comments, for instance the ones provided without entering a post on the desktop version, which are

• votes
• share
• save
• hide
• report

Additionally, as it stands there does not appear to be any way within the app to hide or report posts

When viewing a subreddit directly, the information and sort buttons do not function

The sort button does nothing whereas the information button ℹ️ does open a view, but with no visible items. However it is possible to open view sidebar/wiki/edit card by tapping in the blank area.

Shadowbox mode causes a crash if the subreddit hasn't loaded yet

Particularly noticeable when reddit is having its tri daily server issues.

Logcat: https://gist.github.com/Alexendoo/330aa7497739842c86b5

Bullets appear to be missing a space

Bullets when viewed from Slide don't have the normal one to two spaces between the bullet and the first character.

force close on viewing user info

when pressing the little info button in a users profile, slide will crash.

Attempting to donate causes a crash

The app appears to crash twice, first showing a glimpse of the previous screen then crashing to launcher.

logcat:
https://gist.github.com/Alexendoo/7c749eb62b906cfb4230

Clicking on text in message doesn't trigger parent click

Title.

Shadowbox mode includes text posts

Refreshing when directly linked to a comment causes a crash

Title

Random crash when tapping on comments

When tapping on a comment sometimes for no reason Slide will crash. I can't find a pattern.

Wiki background is black despite theme

Title.

Yellow tint colour using the light theme gives little contrast

Particularly noticeable by the text cursor in the 'Search for a subreddit' field

Night mode

Well, daytime-based automatic theme switching. Could be a pro feature, like it was in QKSMS back when it was proprietary. Here's how I envision it working.

Settings category, titled Night Mode

• Nighttime start time selector
• Nighttime end time selector
• Nighttime light/dark/black selector
• Nighttime Default Theme selector
• Option to override Subreddit Themes with Nighttime Default

Landscape mode won't trigger while app is open, and crashes if triggered otherwise

Opening the app with my phone horizontal makes it crash, and just rotating it with the app open does nothing. Tried messing around with column count, nothing.

Translucent status bar

Suggest popular subreddits in lieu of subscribed ones when searching for a subreddit

This will allow quicker matches of subreddits and highlight the fact that the field can be used to go to a subreddit the user is not subscribed to

In the comment section. The bar that shows points and comments. The word 'comments' is very weird

It keeps aligning itself in weird ways. One post had a weird spacing between the image and the title of the post. (I'll post screenshots on Google+).

Info for user

If I check info (karma points) for a user slide crash

Attempting to open the app without an internet connection causes a crash

'Search for a subreddit' opens a new view despite being subscribed to a sub

Pressing android's equivalent of 'enter' via the keyboard rather than tapping on the subreddit name (underneath the search field) will open a new view on top, rather than scrolling you to the subreddit in the main view.

"Subreddit theme" and "Subreddit layout" sections of settings

So, a more powerful way of editing per-subreddit styling. Tapping the subreddit brings up a popup, not a full page, to edit the colors, or in the case of layout, a full page. Both let you select presets.

Things would be similar for the layout section, but without the color circles.

Not all dialogs are material designed (KitKat and below)

Not all dialogs are material designed. For example the sort button.

Attempting to view the sidebar of a subreddit without one causes a crash

For instance /r/slide

Refresh spinner doesn't load correctly

The pull down to refresh spinner appears out of nowhere, and doesn't automatically disappear when let go (no fade in and out like the old releases).

Minor overhaul to drawer layout

• Remove saved and upvoted entries (not that they even do anything ATM), they should be tabs in profile
• Remove the two hard-to-reach entries at the bottom, they're addressed by #26
• Add Settings entry (#26)
• Add "Go to subreddit" entry
• Move multireddits entry to bottom, next to the actual list of subscribed subs

OP of post should be highlighted

Whenever OP posts in the comments, their username should be highlighted to distinguish them.

Issues with saving media

1. Saving does not do anything. For a GIF, it only shows a notification but doesn't save. Neither do images. Images don't even show notifications.

Turn gear icon in appbar into Settings button in the top bit of drawer, which opens a dedicated Settings page.

The current model isn't sustainable. The settings page could contain:

• Theme: Contains light/dark/black, as well as global color/accent.
• Global post options: Contains the "Edit CardView" dialog, to be overhauled in 4.1.
• Local post options: Contains a more batch-y and powerful way of editing per-subreddit card/color stuff.
• Multi-column: Contains an overhauled version of the "Grid layout" dialog.
• Donate: 💰💰💰
• Other things, like if shadowbox is gonna be getting any customization.

Tapping the info icon on a non-subscribed subreddit results in an empty dialog

This makes it impossible to subscribe to new subreddits.

No visual touch overlay on buttons, navigation bar, or the toolbar

No visual touch overlay on any of the buttons or navigation menus. To enhance this, you could use this library for pre-Lollipop devices: https://github.com/balysv/material-ripple; it would add a nice ripple effect to touches.

Make drawer background whitish in light theme, not grayish

It doesn't look good the way it is.

Recents menu rendering issue

As requested, the only other app I've come across so far that does the same thing is cf lumen

https://vid.me/HaVx

Landscape phones can't access the whole card settings

http://i.imgur.com/S12JOIy.png

it doesn't scroll

Light theme still has dark menus

When using the light theme, the popup menus are still dark. I'm not sure if this is intentional.

Images over 4096px appear not to display a preview

I have a few test images available on /r/alexendoo, would be good for some others to confirm