Mad_Sunday wrote:I've been playing with the PC version of the Nature Explorer (I've been running linux on my PC's for years but have a Windows XP partition for emergencies
) and I reckon that would be the ideal layout on a 480x800 HD Android or WM7 device in landscape mode (800x480). The layout of picture on the left and info on the right is great.
Pete
I will have to see what is involved in rotating the screen. It was too much hassle with WinMobile. I bet Android is much simpler and more automatically handled. Thing is, I can't have different layouts for different screen sizes or it will get too complicated. There really will have to be a standard program with amendments for the better screens. I see there are 10" Android tablets on eBay. There will be a size beyond which I cannot support. What might be possible is to have a large screen option to change the layout.
My problem will be simply getting the program working. Android is new to me so doing the most basic things is going to take time to work out. There will have to be a standard working mode. It was difficult with WinMobile to, for example, have a single picture or text on the screen and an option to reflow the data so bigger screens could show picture AND text. But once the program is working in the standard way that is the time to look to improve it with display options that can, say, show a photo and text at the same time.
I am going to have to work initially within the constraints of QVGA (the device I will soon have to work on) but the same display design constraints would also be true for the more standard HVGA display. These are not large enough to show multi-page data at the same time. But I think the better resolution screens would need MUCH bigger graphics than the current VGA data I have were they to show only a single image or text. So I think the larger screens will have to have both pic and info at the same time to fill the display. I did this with Nature Explorer Windows Desktop version and it looked nice. 480x800 sounds really nice!
