Feature request: tablet UI

[albertogasparin]

It would be nice to have a tablet optimized layout.
Your new Holo theme is really nice, but on tablets it has lots of wasted space.

Can you provide different layouts for phones and tablets?
http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/tablets-and-handsets.html

Anyway, I'm not an Android developer but I'm a graphic designer, so if you need some suggestions I can provide some mockups :-)

[ge0rg]

Thanks for the request; I've had tablet UI in the back of my mind for some time, however a proper tablet port requires significant rewriting effort in the UI components (they need to be migrated from views to fragments to allow seeing the roster and a chat window at the same time).

I would really like to see somebody (else) to step-in on this, and having some mockups might motivate the one or other developer to do the required coding.

P.S: we also need a graphics designer for our UI elements: the app needs better tuned status bar icons for different Android versions. Currently, the icon is not only unsuitable, it looks wrong on all android versions ;-)
I would like to replace the current one with something like this, with variations for online/offline, and providing the correct colors for android 2.x, 3.x and 4.x... It should resemble the "ninja chicken" app logo, but with less clutter/details, as it is only some dozens of pixels in size.