[Mobile] Access app settings while browsing a server

[devy1540]

While using Stump on iOS, I noticed that the settings available before selecting a server are different from those available inside a server.

Once I'm browsing a server, the Settings menu only shows server-specific settings. To access app-wide preferences, such as the theme, language, or reader defaults, I need to return to the server selection screen. This interrupts the browsing flow.

Would it make sense to make app-wide settings accessible from within a server? For example:

• Add an “App Settings” entry alongside the existing server settings.
• Or provide a settings screen with clearly separated “App Settings” and “Server Settings” sections.

Ideally, users could change an app-wide preference and then return to where they were browsing.

I experienced this on iOS. From the code, Android appears to share the same settings flow, although I haven't tested it on an Android device, so this may be useful as a mobile-wide improvement.

What do you think?

[aaronleopold]

The server settings sheet was added recently and doesn't have much inside it, just one entry. I think having app settings there is totally fine, but I'm not 100% sure on the ideal organization yet. My inclination would be not to separate them with sheets (e.g., having two App Settings vs Server Settings sheets), but maybe either just sprinkling some of them inside the existing sheet (and renaming away from Server Settings) or doing what the image reader settings sheet does (that global vs book segmented picker). The settings rows themselves are fairly self-contained, they could be added to the other sheet either way easily, though I do think eventually more thought will need to go into the ux around this, especially as more server-specific settings are added.

I experienced this on iOS. From the code, Android appears to share the same settings flow, although I haven't tested it on an Android device, so this may be useful as a mobile-wide improvement

Yeah they are the same flow. The large portion of the mobile app is shared code between platforms, the only real differences are some small UI components (e.g., pickers, alerts, etc) and larger native modules (e.g., the readium reader).