When on the XDA Portal a mouse click anywhere on the screen will cause the Forums quicklinks to refresh. Instead of showing individual tabs for the forums, topics, and PMs it then displays all three tabs at once. I've noticed this happen on Safari, Firefox, and Chrome and didn't see anyone else mention it as a bug, so...
For the code people at XDA:
I'm guessing the issue is with the #vB-widget and script that populates it. Whenever there is a click (left or right) the three tabs are all assigned the .sC-active class. I've attached a screenshot so you can see where I am talking about.. There are also some odd formatting things (like paragraphs being put in a ul without being surrounded by li's) that may also be tied to this.
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Am I missing some way to easily navigate back to the forum page when I'm at the bottom of a thread of postings?
vBulletin (that's not what we're using here, right?) has a dropdown at the bottom of every page where you can select a forum to navigate to, and by default it always has the current forum being read already selected, so you can just hit GO.
Here in XDA I get to the bottom of a page and can't figure out how to get back to the topic listing, except by going back to the top of the page, and clicking on the forum name in the forum->subforum->threadTitle navigation.
This is very cumbersome.
Pressing the BACK button on the keyboard is certainly an option, but this suffers from not updating the topic listing page, so I can't easily see which threads have new posts since I last visited them.
Sorry for the small novel explaining this.
If you use Chrome then you could use the XDA Toolbar (see my sig), made by one of the handsome and witty intelligent devs of this very site
It currently has a "Jump to top of page" button on it, which will halve your problem, but there will be a release soon that will include the ability to double-click that very same button and go to the parent forum (exactly like what you're asking for). The advantage of this is that you have to be neither at the top or bottom of the page to use it.
If you don't use Chrome, get used to pressing the home key a lot
Thanks for the response! Yes, I found the 'top' line quite a while ago, but never thought of using the home key. That helps a lot.
I look forward to the upgrade!
Based on: http://mycolorscreen.com/2013/10/18/google-ui-13/
Screenshots here: https://imgur.com/a/u6yML#2
I'm quite happy with the 'Home' page, and the 'Google' page, but I'm not sure entirely how to go about doing the apps page.
I was thinking of doing it all with zooper widget (like the google page - none of those are actual icons, it's all zooper widget.) in order to position things properly, because the launcher grid doesn't allow actual icons to be placed in appropriate positions.
I need some music controls somewhere too - maybe at the bottom of the google page, or the apps page if I split the rectangle background?
Also, I'm thinking of swapping the position of the top 'navbars' and the bottom searchbar, so that I can have a persistent google search (which only displays on the top with no option to place it on the bottom (Nova Launcher). This would require changing the wallpaper background to have the zooper widget search box as part of the background, with the actual search widget on top of it, unless there's a way to have the search zooper widget act/behave exactly like the google search bar?
I plan to release the files when done if anyone is interested
Lock screen is temporary until I figure out what to do with that - ideas/suggestions?
Thanks in advance guys.
paradoxiumwind said:
I need some music controls somewhere too - maybe at the bottom of the google page, or the apps page if I split the rectangle background?
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With a layout as clean as you have now, I would be concerned that putting in music controls would complicate things unnecessarily. You might consider hiding the music controls using popup widget 2, or something similar. This would allow you to have music controls at the touch of a button, but not persistent (so that if you aren't listening to music they aren't in the way).
Auto popup with important info (short)
Hello,
I have been on this forum for a short moment now. And like to say thank you first for all the help so far. Thank you for your patience too!
You guys and girls have helped me root and customise my phones.
On topic:
I see there is a need to educate users for the right way to post messages. I suggest a kind of popup with the most important rules.
One of the important issues is that the forum is being filled with posts that are not at right place.
Like developer forum where questions are asked. I myself made myself guilty as well. Been thinking how to correct it.
The solution might be as follows:
- Create a popup that shows the most important rules.
- The same popup has a link to the more complete rules page.
- at the end people sign they acknowledge they have read it and understand.
- Then people can press ok
- A new popup shows (based on login). It shows a quiz and will ask questions. If the user does not know, he /she will not get access to
the forum at all!
- All users must complete this test! Not completing equals no access. After completing you will be sure the user knows the rules.
- Extra precausion, or called penalty if a user does something that is not right. No warning given, but the penalty will be given like
unable to login. Let's say 2 days to start with. With a second violation the period is extended to 1 week. Third time 1 month offline.
Forum admin keep the right to freeze a user and put that user onto a blacklist any time. Which means no access any longer.
Perhaps combine that with IP registration.
I don't know about you, but if I really need an answer fast, I would think twice to make big mistakes again and again.
I know the forum is not the quickest in answering, but people do answer, and usually have good answers.
Hope these suggestions are usefull. B.t.w. this website looks really good! :good: But the content that is offered, outmatches the looks
by a million times. The data, tools,apps made by you guys and roms are priceless!
Keep on the good work
I am working on an app which will have multiple tabs. Having more than four tabs on the main screen would look ugly. What could be a right approach for designing such an app? Is there a way to design it in such a way that in feature I can add more features in app?
Tab is okay. But you may try Viewpager together with Tablayout. There's a lot of code examples on how to do it.
Cuong Phan said:
Tab is okay. But you may try Viewpager together with Tablayout. There's a lot of code examples on how to do it.
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Adding on that: the tabs don't need to span the entire width of the device. If there are more tabs than space they can simple be hidden until the users swipes to them. From a user perspective this is probably not so super great, since
a) the user can't see what's in the final tabs
b) to go from one tab to another if there a lots of tabs in between is a lot of work.
Maybe think about an alternative way to structure the main layout of your app?
what about putting them into four categories and then having tabs inside them, i use swipe in mine but as the other poster says that can be off putting when theres a lot in between to swipe past
I've had this problem
The first question should be "do you need that many different tabs?" Are they all of equal importance? Could some be combined? Could some be put under 1 settings menu? Could many of them live under and hamburger menu?
If you really do need > 4 tabs you can have them carousel at the top. Content apps do this well. If you have a content app then it makes sense to have several tabs. Users will be in a browse mode anyways. Look at Pinterest, Reddit apps and stuff like that. They handle it well.
I'd ask myself and probably my users "what are the 2 most important things my app does" and make those easy to get to.
it looks like the forum theme has just been updated, and I have 2 issues with it.
I'm using "Atlas" on android 5.1.1.
first a visual glitch: when a tap or mouse-over happens on a thread name in a thread list it adds extra space, causing the layout of the entire list to jump around.
this is particularly disruptive when using a mouse or an "air view" capable device.
and then a matter of convenience: device forum lists used to contain only a device description followed by a list of subforums.
now there's an extra-large list of the 4 most active threads between the device description and subforum list, which adds an entire screen's height of content to scroll through.
and each subforum link is followed by links to the 5 latest threads making a single subforum take up a full screen's height, instead of fitting all subforums on 1 screen.
this results in too much scrolling for me.
I'd like to revert to the old 2015 theme, but unfortunately there's no option for this in the theme selector.
is there any way I can get the more compact and less jumpy 2015 theme back?
@bitpushr is our server admin. He might be able to help with these issues.
We haven't pushed out any big changes to the 2015 theme - just incremental changes - so there isn't a way to 'go back'. I will pass your feedback along and also we should have a fix since it sounds like that first issue is a bug.
So the "jumping around" issue is fixed.
The device forum list: we just rolled out some "jumps" that let you more quickly get to a desired section. We still need to clean up the design a bit, but it looks like this: https://goo.gl/Ft32HO
Another option you always have is to use previous templates, like 2013 or 2010. You can change with the template switcher in the bottom left corner of each page here on the forums
the jumping is indeed fixed.
the "forum jumper" however unfortunately makes the scrolling worse for me.
what could perhaps work is if opening a link from a "forum jumper" in a new tab would open the entire subforum, while clicking/tapping it would scroll down to the preview like it does now.
and old themes aren't exactly an option on phones because they don't adjust to the screen width, and unfortunately after the "death" of opera mobile there aren't any browsers left that can do these adjustments by themselves.
edit: i thought of another solution, though it would probably take quite some work.
a minimize buttons like on the forums main page, which hides the "recent threads", and make it folded out on desktop and minimized on phones by default.
i've also included an image showing the amount of scrolling needed to go through a device page on a phone with a 1440x2560 screen.
that's about 13/14 screen heights, 33.000-35.000 pixels tall.
apparently the edit screen for these comments allows for link parsing and attachments while they aren't actually possible in comments.
http://imgur.com/WtRRqxB
that is the image i was referring to(i hope).
Hello.
I dont know if it is an android issue or a google chrome issue. Then i don't know if i am in the right place.
When i read something on chrome mobile on my Samsung galaxy note.
And i want to make a copy of several lines or several words, i put my finger on a word. It highlights one word and the copy past floating menu appears. Then i want to make the highlight zone bigger. When i start to do that with my finger, the floating menu disappear and never come back.
And then i cannot copy anything.
You can see on these videos :
https://youtu.be/xJbruDeG4T8
https://youtu.be/lC_NsRNUCzE
https://youtu.be/CTtBB0yLVFM
Then how can i copy past several lines of words on google chrome on my galaxy note 10 ?
Thank you
The copy and paste worked ok for me I just tried it. I long pressed on the beginning and slid my finger across and down everything I wanted to copy.
I don't know why
In somes sites like xda it when ok
On other sites it work like on the videos...
parisien99 said:
Hello.
I dont know if it is an android issue or a google chrome issue. Then i don't know if i am in the right place.
When i read something on chrome mobile on my Samsung galaxy note.
And i want to make a copy of several lines or several words, i put my finger on a word. It highlights one word and the copy past floating menu appears. Then i want to make the highlight zone bigger. When i start to do that with my finger, the floating menu disappear and never come back.
And then i cannot copy anything.
You can see on these videos :
Then how can i copy past several lines of words on google chrome on my galaxy note 10 ?
Thank you
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Yes i know exactly what you're talking about. That has happened to me plenty. I'm not sure if it's a bug with google or Samsung. How I'm able to work around it sometime, when the bug occurs, I would tap and hold while dragging slightly left or right, then release.This usually causes the floating menu to reappear. Hope that helps.
Hello and thank you for your answer.
I tried what you said with no success.
For example i don't have this issue on xda..
I do not have this problem either, probably a spammy bug, all his new releases have so many problems!
I do have a copy paste problem that is for sure a spammy issue though, because I can't get a new flat screen note 10 anymore because spammy must have his broken screens for job security lol, so with the "fake" tempered plastic curved screen protectors out now, they have a chemical coating that makes them super slippery and so when you try ti copy and paste it's way more difficult to do because you have to be a robot to keep your finger still as a stone now, all because of crazy spammy!!
I've gotten around this problem by using the FooView app. It's a floating button app that allows you to highlight pretty much anything on your screen, then let's you crop, search, edit, save, and select images, text and text in images. It's really customizable, and I use it everyday.
I'm not able to post links, just search FooView in the Google play store and you'll find it.
Cut and Paste on a Note is best done using your S-pen, not your finger... Tap, hold & drag, or use Smart Select.