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Android quibbles

jww1066   September 21st, 2010 10:13p.m.

As I've said several times, the Android support is pretty usable. However there are still a few minor issues:

The example sentence mouseover text doesn't show up for me.

The detail popup can be quite difficult to close, as the little red x is very far to the right and very tiny. Half the time I end up going to nciku by mistake.

The Settings menu where we choose the parts under study is not accessible. This is a problem because it requires a computer to change it. This can be worked around only because of the following problem:

The Cram page doesn't have the special Android magic, so the Flash window is strangely sized etc. The Settings menu can be gotten at here, but only with some jiggery-pokery.

As mentioned before, the very first reading entry often seems to vanish, along with occasional others. That is, the cursor moves but no text appears, and the prompt is marked wrong on submission.

The Progress page graphs are completely broken, although the rest of the page works.

James

葛修远   September 22nd, 2010 8:40a.m.

James, can I ask what handset you're running Android and Skritter on, and how smooth it is?

jww1066   September 22nd, 2010 9:13a.m.

I'm using a Nexus One. Writing is pretty good, a few minor problems. It's not as smooth as on the PC with a Wacom but it's definitely usable. Definition practice is perfect. Reading practice needs a little bit of work.

James

nick   September 23rd, 2010 11:32a.m.

Example sentence mouseover: not going to fix that any time soon. You can see the definition at least by looking at the word popup, which is one click, but so would seeing the tooltip via a click. And pinyin is a crutch, right?

I will work on the 'x' for closing boxes.

I made the settings menu accessible--can you scroll up a bit to see the status bar on your N1? On the Incredible it fits into the screen.

I will Androidify the scratchpad.

I still don't know how you're getting any reading prompts to show up, and I can't test because on the Incredible it just totally explodes. It should be disabled!

Progress graphs don't work, eh? I'll put it on the list.

葛修远   September 26th, 2010 12:14p.m.

Could the Skritter team give some idea of the minimum specs required for a smartphone to run Skritter smoothly enough to be usable? I think the Nexus One has a 1Ghz processor, but you can get much cheaper Android handsets going down to 600Mhz. Do you think these would run Skritter acceptably?

I know it's a pretty big question but I'd be grateful for some information.

nick   September 26th, 2010 1:18p.m.

Probably not? I have no idea as I don't think any of those have Android 2.2 yet. It really could use some more performance on the N1-class phones it runs on today, so cutting that will probably not be pleasant, although it could possibly be usable.

jww1066   September 26th, 2010 1:27p.m.

@nick it's definitely a little poky on the Nexus One, but not horribly so. Let me know if you need me to test things out for optimization purposes.

jww1066   September 26th, 2010 1:34p.m.

P.S. Sorry, I forgot to answer your question about the settings. It looks great, thanks for fixing that. I also checked the account settings and was able to go in and change things just fine.

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