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It wasn't adds that convinced me to register, it was various sub-forums swapping between viewable & non-viewable. How does the iPhone app treat non-regged viewers?
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Cakefool posted:It wasn't adds that convinced me to register, it was various sub-forums swapping between viewable & non-viewable. How does the iPhone app treat non-regged viewers? Also, the avatars do seem too tall in the screenshots posted. Definitely taller than the iPhone app. I'd post an iPhone screenshot for reference, but I'm actually posting from the iPhone app right now, which makes that not so easy. I'll make sure I do it in a few hours though.
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| # ? Feb 24, 2011 13:09 |
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big mean giraffe posted:Alright well pretend this frog is a well-done frog with his mouth open: No sir, I don't like it. It's not very Android, slightly SA. And we're using a login screen because doing it in Settings would be kind of weird since we're not storing the password - only the cookie sent back. It's ghetto-OAuth.
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Casao posted:No sir, I don't like it. Seriously though, its better than the current one. And the other mockups or versions were so busy and ugly something had to be done. I'm far from married to it though if someone comes up with something more "Android."
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big mean giraffe posted:Who asked you? :Colbert: No, I like the other one, but I think the best deal would be so simple take the current SA login page and apply a custom CSS to it to make it cleaner for Android. Ferg can comment if that's possible/worthwhile, but it's my best theory.
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BluDiE posted:I started working on these this morning and shot them over to Ferg. He told me to post 'em up, so here they are. Lets hear what ya'll think. If this is still the login screen we're talking about, I'd drop the security pointers text entirely and fix the stretched text on the buttons. This is a really simple UI thing where functionality is the only really important element, but might as well make it look pretty.
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Diabolik900 posted:Only Comedy Goldmine is open to non-registered users in the iPhone app. As a comparison, here's a screenshot (with avatars) from the iPhone app. 
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Alright then gently caress if there has to be a login screen, make it the frog with his mouth open on the SA blue field. Make a white, rounded speech bubble coming out that says "Awful App". Below put the Username field and the Password field and a login button. When you enter the data and submit, if it's successful the frog changes to  , if you enter the wrong data and it fails, change the text to  .
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Casao posted:No, I like the other one, but I think the best deal would be so simple take the current SA login page and apply a custom CSS to it to make it cleaner for Android. Ferg can comment if that's possible/worthwhile, but it's my best theory. It's not a WebView, so no, custom CSS is out of the question. brosmike posted:Ferg, have you started working on this yet? I can do that next if you haven't. I haven't yet, feel free to hop on it. It's still pretty far down my list of TODOs so the help would be appreciated.
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| # ? Feb 24, 2011 14:43 |
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Can't the ads issue be resolved by just having a little ad thing at the bottom? Kind of how a lot of free apps do?
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Does anyone have a link to some good directions on how to compile Android code? I'm pretty tech smart but google didn't seem to return anything valuable.
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Ferg posted:It's not a WebView, so no, custom CSS is out of the question.
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SLOSifl posted:If you used a WebView for the login screen, would you be able to grab the auth cookie for future logins? It might be a good idea to use the actual forums login page, which would automatically handle the Lost Password functionality, and any other login-related stuff (like forced password changes, etc). The plan was to push to the browser for the lost password button. Since we're using the auth cookie and not the user's password, if the site forces a password change/logout the effect will be the same.
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| # ? Feb 24, 2011 15:46 |
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What about this for the maybe/possibly necessary Login Screen?
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| # ? Feb 24, 2011 16:36 |
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Just throw together a baseline thing and then upgrade it with a patch or something. You don't have to shoot for the sky on the first release 
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Doctor Butts posted:Can't the ads issue be resolved by just having a little ad thing at the bottom? Kind of how a lot of free apps do? Those ads give money to the developer, which would be a no-no, unless Ferg worked out some deal to have that money to Lowtax or something. I don't think there's any way to convert existing site ads into a tiny ad-bar. How does the iOS app handle forum ads?
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| # ? Feb 24, 2011 16:43 |
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Normal SA ads show up at the bottom of the thread, just like on the actual site. Click here for the full 640x960 image.
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| # ? Feb 24, 2011 16:52 |
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That's a lot of discussion about a page (login screen) that you should hardly ever see! Just use regular Android views for the login screen, and if it really bothers someone they can fork it. 
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BluDiE posted:What about this for the maybe/possibly necessary Login Screen? Not a fan: it's too grey and flat.
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Diabolik900 posted:Normal SA ads show up at the bottom of the thread, just like on the actual site. Damnit. You just had to take a screenshot as proof that my grammar is horrible.
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I know there have been a lot of login screens posted, but I thought I'd throw my hat into the ring. Tried to keep it simple, Legible, and used forumy colours where possible, Thoughts?  kind of a placeholder frog though.
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| # ? Feb 24, 2011 20:38 |
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I love that login screen. A lot.
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1997 posted:Can we make the login screen at least as pretty as the baconreader login? We can't be shown up by Reddit in app superiority. I think the login screen should be as awful as possible. I mean balls-to-the-wall-geocities awful or perhaps some sort of an MS Paint doodle.
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| # ? Feb 24, 2011 20:57 |
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something more along these lines? (I'll stop sticking images in what is really a code thread now)
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Iananan posted:something more along these lines? That's like hypnogetoutfrog
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Iananan posted:I know there have been a lot of login screens posted, but I thought I'd throw my hat into the ring. I'm digging this one
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Ok nerds, here's fifteen minutes I'll never get back: or  replacing AWFUL ANDROID APP with whatever title we come up with. I personally like the no title version more. Fonts mis-matched because I couldn't tell what the original was. Also potential for frog mouth open when both fields are filled.
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| # ? Feb 24, 2011 21:14 |
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Use Iananan's first one then when you press login have it switch to the geocities one but have the frog burping/croaking and the username/password boxes wiggle around from the low frequency frog vibrations until the login goes through successfully.
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| # ? Feb 24, 2011 21:15 |
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Dear Ferg, please continue with your amazing coding, we know the login screen isn't really that important & appreciate the real work is going on behind the scenes.
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Cakefool posted:Dear Ferg, please continue with your amazing coding, we know the login screen isn't really that important & appreciate the real work is going on behind the scenes. I think a screen that I only see when I reinstall my browser once a year is the most important thing 
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Cakefool posted:Dear Ferg, please continue with your amazing coding, we know the login screen isn't really that important & appreciate the real work is going on behind the scenes. I think this sentiment is held by all of us, ferg = best. however, Mein eyes, I like the light text on the buttons much better. I did deliberately mute the frog's colours, though.
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Cakefool posted:Dear Ferg, please continue with your amazing coding, we know the login screen isn't really that important & appreciate the real work is going on behind the scenes. Oh yeah well he liked my login screen  I was trying to actually contribute to the project but eclipse refuses to compile the source. Might gently caress with it more tonight and mess with some graphics.
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Mein Eyes! posted:
These login screens get better and better. I prefer the version with the title.
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I'm really into that first one without the title as well.. drat.
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I Dont Like You posted:I'm really into that first one without the title as well.. drat. The one without the title owns owns owns.
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| # ? Feb 24, 2011 22:33 |
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But that space up there is just.....empty. :< I think a title fills it up nicely without being cluttered.
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Clearly the optimal solution is a Login screen theme chooser, complete with a framework for installing additional Custom Login theme apks from the Market. The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Inspect Your Gadgets > Show Off Your Awful Android app- Login Narcissism
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| # ? Feb 24, 2011 23:03 |
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This login screen is the app equivalent of "design docs" for community-based rpgs.
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Has a name been 100% settled on? I think just calling it "Awful" is the way to go. Including the words Android or app seems unnecessary. You already know it's an app, and it's obviously for Android.
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PlaneGuy posted:This login screen is the app equivalent of "design docs" for community-based rpgs. Except the app only really needs one guy making it, and everyone else is just kind of dicking around making suggestions and aren't too invested in their contributions.
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