Subj : Re: focus on a decent mobile/tablet app
To   : August Abolins
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Mon Jun 22 2020 02:40 pm

-=> On 06-21-20 19:07, August Abolins wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 AA> How could those features be invoked?  Would they be ushered from hot
 AA> areas on the edges (like some adaptive websites work with the
 AA> "hamburger" icon) to pull up a menu?   I imagine that most additional
 AA> controls would have to be out of sight inorder to maximize the reading
 AA> pane.

The "hamburger menu" is an obvious option, or some functions could be activated
with a swipe (e.g. downloading and uploading offline mail, when in offline
mode).


 TL> and auto conversion of emoticons to emojis, where a commonly
 TL> understood text representation is available - :-) or :) would result
 TL> in a smiley face, for example.

 AA> That goes without saying! But there would be so many to process!
 AA> People seem to be inventing new ones all the time.  Personally I
 AA> wouldn't want to spend too much time looking through a pull-up of all
 AA> the choices when writing a message on mobile.  But the inline decode
 AA> could be appreciated.

At least the common ones like :) :( :D, etc.  I find it annoying when some
interface won't convert emoticons to emojis, because I'm so used to typing them
out. 


 TL> I also expect that I can switch between the mobile app and the PC and
 TL> pick up where I left off (that rules out point and traditional NNTP
 TL> based solutions).

 AA> I can appreciate that aspect more and more now.  I wouldn't mind
 AA> catching up with messages with OXP on one pc, but when I go to TB on
 AA> another pc, deja vu is not always a pleasant experience.

You see my problem. :)  And that's probably one of my resistance factors
against switching to OXP - I'm back to having a single database independent of
any other devices that I may want to use.


 TL> A mobile app that's user friendly would be a great asset to BBSing.

 AA> Maybe someone could come up with a mockup app that demostrates how
 AA> things could look and operate.

Any mobile app developers in here?


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