UI tweak on the "Read Item" activity

[cheek]

Hi,

When viewing an item to read, the content panel in the lower section
which displays the item as html (probably a WebView??), has a peculiar
behavior. It appears that the webview is set to automatically expand
(up to the screen's resolution) to fit the content.

However, when viewing feeds which have particularly small content
bodies, the webview will also SHRINK to wrap the small content. This
results in a pretty unappealing visual experience, as the standard
black android background shows below the shrunken webview, which
typically has a white background.

Can you please force the webview to always fully expand to fill the
screen (minus the header of course), so that the UI is consistent and
pretty?? ;)

thanks,
~N

[Jayesh Salvi]

On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 05:00:22PM -0700, cheek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When viewing an item to read, the content panel in the lower section
> which displays the item as html (probably a WebView??), has a peculiar
> behavior. It appears that the webview is set to automatically expand
> (up to the screen's resolution) to fit the content.
>
> However, when viewing feeds which have particularly small content
> bodies, the webview will also SHRINK to wrap the small content. This
> results in a pretty unappealing visual experience, as the standard
> black android background shows below the shrunken webview, which
> typically has a white background.

I've noticed this. I believe it happens only few times after you freshly
start the app. If the initial items are short, they won't occupy entire
area and you will see the background that may not be white like
WebView's. But once some long items are loaded, the WebView stretches to
full extent. If subsequently any short items are loaded, it doesn't
shrink back.

Another point to note is, the background of the app behind the WebView
is defined by the theme you are using. So if you are using one of the
lighter themes (Santa, Leaf), you will never know when WebView is
shrunken or fully elongated.

HTH.