Improve UX, UI

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Issue by ghost
Thursday Jun 29, 2017 at 20:13 GMT
Originally opened as brarcher/loyalty-card-locker#123

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So, this is a feature request (might possibly work on this myself). My mother has a ton of loyalty cards, so she wants to use an app like this. However the only ones user friendly enough to use are proprietary (her preferred is Stocard). I've introduced her to free software and she wants to stop using proprietary software as much as possible. The problem with this app is that, as opposed to stocard, there are no logos, no searchable stores to easy add cards, you have to choose what form of barcode is the right one, the colours are bland, the list is one big scrolling hell if you have a ton of cards (no searching)

So, to recap, it would be nice to see the following:

• colours
• searching
• directory for know stores, search for one to add it easily (if legally possible with image preloaded in app for known stores, if not make it possible to import these images easily so that they can be loaded from third party not affiliated with this project)
• two panes, one for most used stores (with a tile ui showing the logos with their names on the bottom of the tile), one for an alphabetical list. Maybe a manual pinning of stores too?

Anyways, this is a great app that fills a void on F-Droid, so I'm happy it exists. I hope we'll be able to bring it up to par with the proprietary ones

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Comment by brarcher
Friday Jun 30, 2017 at 02:08 GMT

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So, this is a feature request (might possibly work on this myself).

You suggestions are great! Honestly, designing a nice UI is not my strength. I encourage you, if you're interested, to submit pull requests with suggested changes. I can help out where I can.

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Comment by FireMotion
Friday Dec 29, 2017 at 22:13 GMT

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Also options for how to display the cards would help me:

• Optionally displaying the note after the card name. Because sometimes the note is useful, but not in the card list. It would also look better (in my opinion) to show the name with a bold font, but the note in a lighter font.
• An option to hide the card ID to make the list more compact.
• Maybe even an option to show two columns (one big list, but in two columns; or one column with most used cards, as suggested above; or where you can pin/star/favorite your cards)

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Comment by gilcot
Friday Jan 26, 2018 at 19:33 GMT

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Instead of displaying the note optionally, they should be shown at end in detail view, but not at all in list view. Notes are never relevant in card list, or does someone have some example?

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The original reporter deleted their GitHub account. Most of the things asked here have been implemented:

Colours: implemented
Search: implemented
Directory: Not yet, maybe we can suggest autocompletion on the store name field but there are many many many stores and people in different countries will have different scores. This seems like it will be a bit too much.
Two panes: Not really planning, but @t351206 has created code to allow you to favourite cards, which would support pinning and I think will solve this once it's been merged.