A few Android UI guidelines

[davidstrauss]

Touching the application name and opening the sidebar should show a menu, including settings. The menu in the upper-right should probably entirely move to that left bar.

I would also only allow adding a repository or node when the proper tab is showing.

The "share" button should only be applicable to content in the main area, not in the left bar. To share the node information, I would make "Node Info" either a tab or one of the left bar options so that it populates the main area and is properly sharable.

[Nutomic]

You mean the current menu items (web gui/settings) should be shown at the top of the drawer? I'm not quite sure if this is intuitive and make sense, what do others think about it?

Good idea, will do that.

You're right about the share action. But making it a tab would be weird (it's really different from repos/nodes), and a seperate screen for it would put it too far away imo. Maybe a share button in the drawer instead? (though that's also not really done by Android)

[davidstrauss]

You mean the current menu items (web gui/settings) should be shown at the top of the drawer? I'm not quite sure if this is intuitive and make sense, what do others think about it?

The button for showing settings should be in the drawer, like it is for GMail and Google Play Music.

You're right about the share action. But making it a tab would be weird (it's really different from repos/nodes), and a seperate screen for it would put it too far away imo. Maybe a share button in the drawer instead? (though that's also not really done by Android)

The right place to display and share node information might actually be the Nodes tab. After all, the phone is one of the nodes, and the reason to share is to connect with new nodes.

[Nutomic]

The button for showing settings should be in the drawer, like it is for GMail and Google Play Music.

Ah, so you mean like stats on top, then a seperator bar, then settings item (and maybe also link to issues). screenshot for reference

The right place to display and share node information might actually be the Nodes tab. After all, the phone is one of the nodes, and the reason to share is to connect with new nodes.

That's how the syncthing web GUI handles it, but I don't really like that approach, because the local node is quite different from a remote node (for the local node, you care about cpu/ram usage, but for remote nodes you care about their online status and transfer rate). My opinion.

[davidstrauss]

That's how the syncthing web GUI handles it, but I don't really like that approach, because the local node is quite different from a remote node (for the local node, you care about cpu/ram usage, but for remote nodes you care about their online status and transfer rate). My opinion.

Perhaps the local node information can be at the top, in a special section with a sharing button, above the listing of other nodes?

[davidstrauss]

Oh, and you nailed the reference screenshot for settings. That's exactly what I'm talking about.

[ovizii]

I'm also wondering why, when I add repositories and nodes I see fewer options compared to what I see if I go and edit them from the Web Gui?

[Nutomic]

Some options aren't implemented in the app yet, see #122. But you can access them through the web GUI.