Starting this thread in case Mitch wanted Community feedback on the
experimental GUI for recent versions of Android that he posted:
http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~msundt/collect-ui
I installed it without problem over the current Collect 1.3 on my Samsung
Galaxy S4. The top bar works well, and does not bother me either in
appearance or function. I find that the shading and base line set it off
cleanly from the main screen.
Couple of observations:
- the S4 has a big 5 in/12.7 cm) screen, and on smaller screens the bar
might cut into valuable screen real estate--I try to keep everything to a
single visible screen so the user does not have to scroll down and risk
missing stuff. - a pop-up about "What's new?" upon installation might be useful to
highlight the 3-dot function in order to avoid the kind of frustrated user
reaction recently seen on this forum and in the Google Play reviews - if it would not be too much work, it would be great be to give the users
of recent Android versions an option to revert to the older GUI
HTH
Jerry