Hi Tadjio,

The message of "no albums" is the default background for that view. If there's nothing there, then that shows. It shows it on first load because it's downloading the album information from your server, then it displays it.
- It could be changed to show "loading..." and then if nothing loads it displays the "empty" message. What do you think?

1) It can just be "X Images" instead of "X images Y in sub-albums" -- What do other people think?

2) The date that is shown is the most recent date of an image in that album.

3) Album display: I'm no artist, just a programmer. :) If people have suggestions to make it better, I'm totally open! -- Just let me know what it should look like.

Thanks for the feedback! I just want to make the app a best fit for the community. I hope others will comment to help because I'm fairly new to Piwigo.

I have been studying the Piwigo 2.0 list of albums and comparing with that on Smartpocket and other Themes such as Stripped and Elegant.

I suddenly discovered a 'hidden feature'. If you press on an album thumbnail, the bottom half appears without the black background and with the Album Title fainter.

This confirmed for me that we are losing half the image in the album view, which is a pity.

I suggest we have the album thumbnails "half width" with the Album Title and possibly the Description to the right of it.

The other advantage of this approach is that we would get more albums per screen.
(At the moment I only get 2.5 on my iPhone 6).

Attached are a pair of sample screens.  Note that the walkers reflection and half the cat are lost!

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Hoser wrote:

How did you get it so the transparent view went away (the black bar)? When I tap and hold on a "cell"/ thumbnail, it just turns it white (see attached image). Could you go through again how you got that? It's a good bug!

Press and hold the album thumbnail.

Hoser wrote:

New album layout:
If I understand you correctly, you would have the left side of the "cell" be the album image, and the right side be the album details (name, image count...)?

Yes.  Possibly the album description as well.

Hoser wrote:

How many albums would you like to be displayed on one screen of on your iPhone 6? (right now there's 3 if you have your zoom set to normal on a 6, look at my screenshot)
I think I'll start a new thread about the album cell layout.

I get nearly 3.
I think it is a question of placing an album thumbnail in the left-hand half of a cell and see how many fit o a screen!
To me it is important to get the full height of the thumbnail, even if it is chopped off left and right as for a square thumbnail.

Tadjio wrote:

Whenever I start Piwigo 20., a message flashes by, saying something like "there appears to be no albums in your Piwigo..." and then they appear after a second.  (I can reproduce this by closing the App fully)...

Please can you change this to "loading..." or something else innocuous?

Tadjio wrote:

I don't like the orange block at the bottom of the albums screens.

The color scheme of the app isn't going to change unless Piwigo decides to change it.

Tadjio wrote:

Not just the colour (!) but the fact it takes up too much real estate.

I'm not thinking from moving away from a tab bar.

Tadjio wrote:

Could you add n+m and just say n+m photos?

I had it only displaying X photos, but I changed it to N photos, M photos in sub-albums to match the web.

Tadjio wrote:

I suggest we have the album thumbnails "half width" with the Album Title and possibly the Description to the right of it.

Others have said the same thing and I'm willing to redesign it, though I'd rather get the app out first and get a little more basic functionality in first before this happens. ([Github] Piwigo-Mobile issue #80)

Tadjio wrote:

Please can you change this to "loading..." or something else innocuous?

Yeah, we can do this. I'll add an issue. ([Github] Piwigo-Mobile issue #79)

Did I miss any other issues that you listed?

Hoser wrote:

Tadjio wrote:

Not just the colour (!) but the fact it takes up too much real estate.

I'm not thinking from moving away from a tab bar.

I'm not suggesting removing the tab bar, just reducing it in height slightly.

Tadjio wrote:

I'm not suggesting removing the tab bar, just reducing it in height slightly.

Ah, well, see... a TabBar in iOS is a fixed design element and has a fixed height. The height cannot be reduced.

Only way that bar can reduce in height would be to use a different design element. Using a different design element would require a major change in the way the screens are placed onto the screen. And changing that mechanism would result into a huge work.

Right now the aim is to sort out bugs and to get the app ready for release.

Please keep your feedback coming. Every post is read and every suggestion is valued. Please also consider that not everything can be implemented now and that some suggestions might sound simple but do require a lot of work. :)