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[FEATURE REQUEST] Optimize the app for big screens

Open heymaad opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

Hi Dev,

The app is already pretty easy to use on tablets. I was thinking that moving the bottom navigation bar to the left side on tablets/chromeOS would be better. I got the idea from Google Photos' similar implementation. Thanks.

heymaad avatar Sep 03 '21 05:09 heymaad

Interesting. Some info here under the "Scaling and adaptation" section. They say to use a navigation rail on medium screens and a navigation drawer on big screens.

Navigation is tightly coupled with this app so changing it could be a bit of work but it should be doable. I think that using a navigation rail for everything could be faster, they say not to use it on small screens but what do they know, they literally have a pic of it being used on a phone in its article ;D

navigation rail

navigation drawer

This will definitely need to wait for #144 to be finished first

LivingWithHippos avatar Sep 03 '21 08:09 LivingWithHippos

I agree that using navigation rail makes sense. I don't why it is not recommended for small screen size; Google's own apps use it. Probably small screen size does not refer to phones, not sure. But glad to know that you will work on this.

heymaad avatar Sep 07 '21 04:09 heymaad

closed in favour of more specific issues since a lot of changes have been made to make the app usable on tvs

LivingWithHippos avatar Feb 25 '23 14:02 LivingWithHippos