New menu appearance

[devemux86]

The tile buttons will be replaced with simpler menus.
Tiles are difficult to work properly and be compatible with the many screen sizes / dpi of Android.

This will also allow us to include more actions without being limited by fixed number of tiles
and avoid the multiple menu steps in many screens that makes the app complicated.

[devemux86]

By the way: if there is such a major change in UI, do you think it is also possible to give the waypoint icons (start/end, way/via point, shaping point) a more modern look?

Currently they actually look ancient, like they've fallen out of time... 😉

Originally posted by @bios4 in #776 (reply in thread).

[devemux86]

do you think it is also possible to give the waypoint icons (start/end, way/via point, shaping point) a more modern look?

@bios4 Do you mean the waypoint icons on the map or in the menu?

The menu may use regular waypoint icons with the same color as other menu items for consistency:

[MotoUKRider]

I like the revised menu (more so if it makes the App more future-proof!) - my initial thoughts (and I think this has been raised before) are that some icons have been relegated to "blue" when they exist as their own elsewhere, eg: yellow-pin for Via-Point, green/red for Home/End etc.

Does anyone else rely on colour recognition to navigate a menu? 🎨

[devemux86]

@MotoUKRider If you mean the waypoint icons, they may appear nice with same color in the menu,
but on the map we expect the start / end and the intermediate points to be different?

As we also need to draw the via / shaping point numbers inside the icons.

[bios4]

Do you mean the waypoint icons on the map or in the menu?

Both:

If you mean the waypoint icons, they may appear nice with same color in the menu, but on the map we expect the start / end and the intermediate points to be different?

I agree that they should be easily distinguishable by their color on the map/in the waypoint list!
But the used icons per se are very oldfashioned in my eyes, so I wish these would look somehow more "modern"...

[airald]

I suppose that icon size will be a parameter to make it easier.

[devemux86]

The "Font size" and especially the "Display size" in "Settings | Application | Advanced" also change the menu size.

[devemux86]

Replying to the post from here.

When opening the route menu (long-press route), I'd love to see the "Waypoints" tile in the first menu screen instead of the second one as it is now. This would make manipulating the waypoints of the existing route a bit more straightforward IMHO.

As there is an "empty slot" in the menu, this should be not a big deal!??

@bios4 There is actually no empty space in the first menu, because there is also the "Recalculate section".
But this problem of trying to fit everything into the first menu screen is not present in the new menu.

About the "Round trip" in the route menu, we can indeed remove it if it is not needed.

[DolomitesTom]

Don't like this change at all... the tiles are much better for usage with gloves. The font size changes a lot other unwanted things, not only the actions menu.

[FishEy3]

I read that "Tiles are difficult to work properly and be compatible with the many screen sizes / dpi of Android" and I can understand it, but one of the main reasons why I use and pay for the use of Cruiser is its interface.
On a motorbike, in any weather (sun or rain) the tiles are recognizable, large and easily distinguishable, without possible typing errors.
I read that they seem "old" in appearance, they work and, for me, they are functional and ideal to use.
In the new proposed screen you need to read the description of the command not the large icon or the color, it is less immediate and to read safely, I should be stopped.
I really appreciate the great work done, Cruiser is a "Swiss army knife" full of useful functions and with a functional interface designed to be used rather than looked at, and this is a great quality indeed

[bios4]

"Glove friendlyness" ... a current definite added value for (motor)cyclists that seems to be totally gone with the new menus.

[Leeb64]

Den Handschuhmodus braucht man normalerweise nur während der Fahrt.Also während des Routings.
Also im Routingmodus Kacheln und der Rest könnte in dem neuen "Design" gehalten werden.

[devemux86]

• Available in Cruiser 5.5.2 #820