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Comment on Android: List Jumping by Brenton

Brenton — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:41:53 +0000

@Zach: I added the demo APK so you can play around with it. Keep in mind you’ll need the Adobe AIR for Android pre-release to run it.

@Ryan: Sorry, but the video is just “faking” the interaction to demonstrate how it would work. Nothing has actually been implemented.

Comment on Android: List Jumping by Ryan Gravener

Ryan Gravener — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:52:18 +0000

I like yours better. Going to release the source for the A-#?

Comment on Android: List Jumping by Brenton

Brenton — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:58:35 +0000

Blah, I forgot the APK, it’ll have to wait to be uploaded until Monday…sorry.

Comment on Android: List Jumping by Travis

Travis — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:09:42 +0000

This is a pretty good idea. I do find the current implementation really annoying. It seems fine in theory but whenever I use it it takes me a while to actually get to the letter I want because of the unpredictable speed of the scrolling. Your idea would work much better.

Similar approaches may be to have a way to reveal the letter jumps to the right or left and some sort of indicator that it can be slid over. If the user were to slide from the edge of the screen horizontally the entire list view could slide and expose the alphabet list which could be scrolled up/down and once an item is picked the original list would slide back positioned to that letter.

They’re both similar approaches but the slide-to-reveal would still work with one hand.

Comment on Android: List Jumping by Brenton

Brenton — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:03:03 +0000

@Zach,

I’ll upload the APK so you can try it out later today. You’ll need the AIR for Android prerelease though.

Comment on Android: List Jumping by Serge

Serge — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:40:47 +0000

The problem with your idea is that user has now two methods to scroll a list and the second method is not discoverable. What you list as current flaw #1 is actually a feature to make the user discover list jumping.

Another way to improve list jumping is to insert an [Index] button as the first element of the list. Once clicked it should display the index screen you propose. But if the user starts scrolling it will go away as it’s part of the list. It also makes sense to make its color differ from the other list items so that the user would notice it.

Comment on Android: List Jumping by zach

zach — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:49:07 +0000

Want to share the APK from the demo? I wouldn’t mind seeing how it feels on a device…

Comment on Android: List Jumping by kolslorr

kolslorr — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:56:42 +0000

Impractical for one-handed operation, but good try.

Comment on Android: List Jumping by Cole

Cole — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:26:06 +0000

Brenton, I think it would be very likely for Cyanogen to accept this into CM6. You should fork him on GitHub and send a pull request to him to see if he will accept it.

Very cool stuff.

Comment on QR Code Link Standards by bbby

bbby — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:57:42 +0000

Awesome. I just converted my project sites using this format, and it’s working great. I always wondered about the “what if I’m on my phone” angel — turns out the solution is easier than I thought it’d be. Thx for this!