Tester with Bangle.js 1 wanted for refactor of the Message UI app.

[thyttan]

Hi!

I've been working on the Message UI (messagegui) app to make it use the scroller view more. Primarily because the scrollers font is bigger and so easier to read at a glance. So when a message is auto displayed it will go straight to the scroller view.

I have tested this on my own Bangle.js 2 and on an emulated Bangle.js 1.

Now I'm looking for someone to test my changes on actual Bangle.js 1 hardware.

Please try it from here: https://thyttan.github.io/BangleApps/?id=messagegui

The PR is here: espruino/BangleApps#3685

[gfwilliams]

Primarily because the scrollers font is bigger and so easier to read at a glance

I'm not quite sure I understand - you mean the scroller view when you tap on the message after you see it and you can drag to scroll up and down? Are you adding the same ability to tap in the top right to get a menu, and swipe left/right for actions? If so I guess we could consider just killing the non-scrollable view completely?

Longer-term my plan is to add some better font management with a function to select the correct font, and to try and move over to using the Rebble fonts (which are generally more bold) so that might help with this a bit in either case...

[thyttan]

I'm not quite sure I understand - you mean the scroller view when you tap on the message after you see it and you can drag to scroll up and down?

Right, yes 👍

Are you adding the same ability to tap in the top right to get a menu, and swipe left/right for actions?

This could be implemented but I didn't consider it too much and instead lean on the non-scrollable view (which I renamed to overview) for now. So the message scroller is for reading and the overview is for actions - I think it works out pretty neatly.

But we could definitely think about this!

For a while I had implemented short-touch on that scroller to go to the non-scrollable view and long-touch to get a menu. But I dropped the long-touch action since I found it often interfered when scrolling slowly.

If so I guess we could consider just killing the non-scrollable view completely?

I could continue working towards that maybe. But like I said haven't thought about it too much yet.