Jared was showing me an iOS app that has a cool-looking (but IMO a little disorienting) tablet view with the mosaic model... I'll record a screencast so y'all android folks can see what it looks like. ;) Not sure I like it but it's a good thing to compare against.
-- brion
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Yuvi Panda yuvipanda@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'll note that if we start doing variable heights we need a solution for multiple items in the same row of differing heights - for tablets and phones in landscape mode. When we last looked around for 'MosaicView' widgets there weren't any good ones, so we might have to build our own if we go that way. Not sure about the situation on iOS though.
Ok, the example Jared was showing me is the Lauritz furniture auction app for iPhone and iPad.
Here's a quick screen capture on iPad: https://brionv.com/misc/lauritz-auction-mosaic.webm
Conceptually, each column is mosaic-style, separately vertically scrollable, and wraps around near the edge of the screen... and you can also scroll horizontally, which appears to eventually wrap around as well.
I found it a bit disorienting so we shouldn't copy it exactly, but I like the overall look of the mosaic layout. I'll play around with ideas on portrait, landscape, and small and large screen variants that make more sense for a chronological list like we have.
-- brion
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote:
Jared was showing me an iOS app that has a cool-looking (but IMO a little disorienting) tablet view with the mosaic model... I'll record a screencast so y'all android folks can see what it looks like. ;) Not sure I like it but it's a good thing to compare against.
-- brion
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Yuvi Panda yuvipanda@wikimedia.orgwrote:
I'll note that if we start doing variable heights we need a solution for multiple items in the same row of differing heights - for tablets and phones in landscape mode. When we last looked around for 'MosaicView' widgets there weren't any good ones, so we might have to build our own if we go that way. Not sure about the situation on iOS though.