[WikimediaMobile] Android 3 & 4-style layout mockups

[Julie]

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Steven Walling <swalling at wikimedia.org> wrote:

>On Jan 13, 2012 12:21 AM, "rupert THURNER" <rupert.thurner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> as I was asked last time and I had no good answer to it: what are the
>keywords to let one find the the beta version on market?
>>
>
>It is not possible to download a beta from the Market.
>
>However, thankfully on Android you can download apps not on the market if
>you choose to. There are links to use (.apk) in earlier emails to this
>list, just search the archives.
>
>On Jan 13, 2012 12:59 AM, "Brion Vibber" <bvibber at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:31 AM, Tomasz Finc <tfinc at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Brion Vibber <bvibber at wikimedia.org>
>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I was reading up on Android 3 & 4's 'action bar' (sorta replaces the
>older menu styles) and got inspired to make some mockups for a layout for
>the app that might fit in better on Android 3 (Honeycomb) tablets and
>Android 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) phones.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_mockups_for_Android_style
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Neat. I'm liking that were starting to look closer to what Holo Android
>users are going to expect
>>>>
>>>> http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2012/01/holo-everywhere.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There's actually a couple nice screenshots of an SDK sample program that
>shows what might be another good way to change the layout:
>>>
>>>
>https://developer.android.com/resources/samples/HoneycombGallery/index.html
>>>
>>> That's a sample photo-gallery type app that has, in tablet layout, a
>left column where you select individual items and then the rest of the
>screen is the photo view. On the actionbar, the first thing after the icon
>are some navigation selectors where you choose between various categories
>of things to show in the items list.
>>>
>>> We could have a similar layout where the navigation options are search,
>saved pages, history, and nearby -- then in tablet mode you can keep the
>list portions open so you can easily get back to them.
>>>
>>> In small-screen mode, these could be two separate screens: one with the
>navigation selectors and the lists, and another with the article view and
>minimal controls to get you back to the navigation.
>>>
>>> -- brion
>>>
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