M3: Add labels to the bottom navigation bar and maybe fill the icons

[HonbraDev]

Currently, apps using the bottom bar have labels under the icons by default. This app does not. While it is a valid UX decision, it would be nice to have an option to turn them back on and/or annotate them when long-pressing.

The current bottom navigation bar, which is shorter than the default component and lacks labels:

The demo component from the Material Gallery, which is taller than the Mastodon one and has labels on long press:

The proposed configuration, with the label visibility option set to auto:

The icons also don't switch to their filled variant when selected, though again this could be a valid UX decision.

[grishka]

Our UIs are designed by a professional design team. We don't accept outside contributions to the UI of the app.

[CherryKitten]

Our UIs are designed by a professional design team. We don't accept outside contributions to the UI of the app.

have you considered just making this closed source then? lol

[ShadowJonathan]

Our UIs are designed by a professional design team. We don't accept outside contributions to the UI of the app.

Y'know, the correct way to deal with issues like this is to pass that feedback onwards to that same design team, not to close the issue, since that's just putting fingers in your ears and going "lalalalala cant hear you", which isn't very appriciated in open source projects.

[TGRush]

Our UIs are designed by a professional design team. We don't accept outside contributions to the UI of the app.

Your professional design Team is actively ignoring the material design guidelines you're trying to follow.

the bottom tab bar should NEVER not have labels.

https://m3.material.io/components/navigation-bar/guidelines

[Kiloku]

I recommend everyone use Megalodon, which is a fork of Mastodon for Android that actually is community focused. In fact, it already has labels for the bottom bar. Not sure if I can link it here, but it's easy to find.

[ashley-graves]

I recommend everyone use Megalodon, which is a fork of Mastodon for Android that actually is community focused. In fact, it already has labels for the bottom bar. Not sure if I can link it here, but it's easy to find.

https://github.com/sk22/megalodon

[KiitoX]

It seems to me this decision is not compliant with written policy. This issue/feature request is plainly about accessibility, and as far as I can tell this only affects the Android version of this app.

This issue should at least be brought up to the design team, instead of closing it. Alternatively do us a favor and adjust that contribution policy, to reflect reality.

[ahoneybun]

Another fediverse application doing this correctly per Material Design is Sync.