UI Changes (ActionBar and Theme introduction)

Victor Shcherb

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May 9, 2013, 1:42:43 PM5/9/13

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Latest Changes :

- Holo Theme and Action Bar support all over screens

- Settings for theme preference (Holo Light, Holo Dark, Dark Action Bar)

- Plugin Settings restructuring! Now All Plugin have own Group Settings which simplifies understanding how Settings show up

- Monitoring Plugin & Background Plugin are merged

To enable these changes we changed minimal Android version to Android 2.1.

Small current glitches :

- Map Menu button displays items in a long list (will be changed in future)

- Search Transport tab is not visible on some devices in Portrait (reachable by dragging to the right)

Best Regards,

Victor

Harry van der Wolf

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May 9, 2013, 2:02:29 PM5/9/13

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Hi,

Thanks for all the great work you and the others put in this app.

Is this a development version?
If not: is it currently being pushed to the Play Store?

2013/5/9 Victor Shcherb <victor....@gmail.com>

To enable these changes we changed minimal Android version to Android 2.1.

According to android statistics 1.6 (Donut) is only 0.1%, so you reach 99.9% of the users.

Harry

Victor Shcherb

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May 9, 2013, 2:43:17 PM5/9/13

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No, it is in latest night build, of course. Still need to be reviewed.

Victor

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Debeet

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May 16, 2013, 9:18:41 AM5/16/13

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New icon is awesome but it doesn't match the interface. Will the main icons (map, search, favorites, settings) be changed too?

Also it would be refreshing if OsmAnd could get a new default modern map colors. These from OpenStreetMap are not looking great in 2013 and I imagine they are not appealing to users.

Hardy

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May 22, 2013, 9:24:03 AM5/22/13

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Re map colors: Try the "Touring View" Map style rather than "Default", they are mostl the colors used by Eurpoean (and some North Amercian) road atlases.

Regarding the former "Main screen" with the 4 tiles Map/Search/Favorites/Settings: I suggest we completely re-design this as a splash screen only (to perform the initial index actions), with some nice logo and version information on it. This screen should later be displayed via Menu/About.

Regarding our new "Actions-Menu" screen: I have tested this in practice over the last week or so and am amazed how much easier it is to use e.g. in a car than the old Hardware-menu-button/More layout. I really like the iconzed list view now, think we should consider keeping this and not think about much redesign of that screen!