Make the Android UI pretty

[paulrouget]

As of now, it looks like this:

There are plenty of ways to make this look better. Maybe the buttons should be under a drop down menu. We should use icons instead of text. The toolbar should be merged with the UI top bar. Etc.

To make changes to the UI, all that is needed is Android Studio. Open support/android/apk, and then select servoapp/res/layout/activity_main.xml:

A lot of things can be done from this Design tool.

It's likely that some changes to MainActivity.java will be required too.

See wiki to build Servo for Android without building the rust code.

If anyone is interested to work on this, I'd be happy to help.

[paulrouget]

See: https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Building-for-Android#working-on-the-user-interface-without-building-servo

[atouchet]

Would we be able to use Firefox UI icons for this?

[jdm]

No. There are many legaal complexities around that and it's not worth getting into those issues at Servo's current state.

[paulrouget]

Even the UI assets? Like back and forward icons?

[jdm]

Yes. We do not want our application to use any of Firefox's assets.

[wayling]

i have interested to do but it has any suggestions?

[paulrouget]

any suggestions

Using icons instead of text could be a good start.