Re: MailWasher Android version, testing results
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 7:32 pm
Android Galaxy Nexus -
Navigation:
The back button goes back through every step. It makes navigating back to the mail list or to other locations a chore. What is needed is a menu hooked to the android menu button that allows one to go to email accounts, inbox, spam tools, logout, etc.
Note: If you press the logout button and then press the Android back button, you are returned to your active display state with access to spam tools, including the friends list and the blacklist. Email accounts disappear, but other menu choices still work completely or partially. Add email account gives an incomplete form. Other buttons show form components.
You need a "not logged in" status flag that disables all functions except log-in (and future off-line features, such as editing the black and white lists.)
The menu back button and the Android back button work at cross purposes. Get rid of a back button on the app itself, use the Android back button instead.
Also, rethink the use of a separate menu button for the app. Create menus that are accessed by the android menu button. Eventually make them context sensitive.
Back button issues is a conflict between the design of the android operating system and the design of the a web application. You have to start thinking how to use the android paradigm. The only buttons you want on the android display are the functions that would normally be done. A button on each message that brings up the options for that message (friend, block, etc) and a delete check box. Put the rest on the Android menu button - including log-out.
Don't go back to the log-in screen after log-out. Terminate the app. If the user wants to log-in again, he can press the app icon. This should eliminate the problem of the system back button partially reversing the log-out.
We want to very quickly institute the check-mail option with user settable frequency (including manual only sync), because ISP's don't like to have their mail servers checked that often. Some accounts are blocked if they are checked too frequently.
Some thoughts.
Ralph
Navigation:
The back button goes back through every step. It makes navigating back to the mail list or to other locations a chore. What is needed is a menu hooked to the android menu button that allows one to go to email accounts, inbox, spam tools, logout, etc.
Note: If you press the logout button and then press the Android back button, you are returned to your active display state with access to spam tools, including the friends list and the blacklist. Email accounts disappear, but other menu choices still work completely or partially. Add email account gives an incomplete form. Other buttons show form components.
You need a "not logged in" status flag that disables all functions except log-in (and future off-line features, such as editing the black and white lists.)
The menu back button and the Android back button work at cross purposes. Get rid of a back button on the app itself, use the Android back button instead.
Also, rethink the use of a separate menu button for the app. Create menus that are accessed by the android menu button. Eventually make them context sensitive.
Back button issues is a conflict between the design of the android operating system and the design of the a web application. You have to start thinking how to use the android paradigm. The only buttons you want on the android display are the functions that would normally be done. A button on each message that brings up the options for that message (friend, block, etc) and a delete check box. Put the rest on the Android menu button - including log-out.
Don't go back to the log-in screen after log-out. Terminate the app. If the user wants to log-in again, he can press the app icon. This should eliminate the problem of the system back button partially reversing the log-out.
We want to very quickly institute the check-mail option with user settable frequency (including manual only sync), because ISP's don't like to have their mail servers checked that often. Some accounts are blocked if they are checked too frequently.
Some thoughts.
Ralph