evyna said:
Carwings doesn't return the % capacity; the old number was just bars/12 and formatted into increments of 10. Now it shows the raw bars, which are more correct, and the range. I can derive the percent from the range, but it would be inaccurate to a few percents, which would be annoying to people.
I double checked carwings and it actually shows a % capacity (its totally based on the bars pretty sure). Is this not imbedded in the data you get from it? Meh, if you have time to add as an option cool, if not, then meh - there may be someone that likes the % from carwings.
evyna said:
Hmm... yeah. Need to think about this. I don't like showing X / 12, it seems unintuitive, but people wanted the raw bar reading, so I'm not sure what to do with that.
Yea the X/12 format almost made me think of a date (especially since it was the first numbers displayed!). I would maybe change it to X of 12 bars. Its longer, but you could probably delete the spaces and say Xof12 bars to save space. If you really need it short X of 12 or Xof12 (looks slightly odd without "bars) may work. Or, just say 8 bars - I mean do we really need to know the max? I assume after about a few days of ownership you know how many total bars there are. And maybe as a slick coding if bars=12 display "Full bars" and if bars=0 you could do "No bars" - not needed but nice touches.
evyna said:
Well, to be fair, S models don't have Carwings either
What do you suggest it be called?
Ok, I am going to start this with "my bad." I was looking at the connotation of the word vs the denotation. Go me. Here in Texas HVAC always implies a heat pump system. If it isn't a heat pump (rare) its referred to something else. But, technically, HVAC is the generic term for all heating and air conditioning, no matter they type. So stupid me. Leave as is - your cool.
evyna said:
I can set the notification to be always there, there's an option in Android for that, but I feel like I'd get a slew of complaints if people couldn't get rid of it. Maybe make it an option in the app?
I think that is the way to go. I usually have a very clean notification tray, and do the all dismiss quite a bit. For people that like that cleanness - that option would be very helpful; and your right, some people would just get super annoyed if it was fixed permanently there without an option. And just as a backup, I think I would leave the "Save and Update" always as available so people can refresh as needed to put the icon back in the notification tray without having to make some adjustment first.
evyna said:
It's an Android thing.. there's a weird gesture to show the buttons (swipe down on the notification, I think), but it's not really intuitive. Not sure if there's a workaround for this, though. I'll look into it.
Wow, being on android since Eclair this was something I never knew! Well then, I would leave as is. Android itself knows what to do, so I wouldn't do anything. It might need further testing on skinned phones, sometimes they modify the notification tray and it might not work (dunno why they would remove that function). Although, to prevent someone complaining about it, I might mention it in your app description. As heavy and long time android user and I didn't know about that - there is probably a good chance that many people won't know it either.