On 5 December 2016 at 17:35, Susan Shumway <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is actually very valuable feedback - thanks! I forwarded it on to the > Doc Buddy team. > Hi again, Susan. Is there somewhere official (or semi-official) to sumit problems with Doc Buddy. I imagine it's not formally supported, but I'm not sure if all the whining here on IBM-MAIN is the best way to get info to the developers. There is a home page ibmdocbuddy.mybluemix.net but no forum or FAQ or the like. The contact info is a mailto: link to [email protected] . Nonetheless I will start here with some new and two previously reported issues, and maybe you can forward. 1) I run my Android phone with font size set to Huge. This app does not handle that at all well. This is not uncommon, because so many Android developers are, shall we say, around 22 years old, and have no idea what kind of vision issues we 60+ types have. So I find truncated keywords, the download file choice says "Release date: 2016-08-19 Size..." (with no way to see the rest), impossibly tiny items (the "% downloaded" icon looks to be about 3x3 pixels; I literally got out a magnifying glass because even my reading glasses wouldn't make it visible). I suggest to them that they set their phone to huge fonts and check out their own app. 2) The disappearing keyboard problem is real and annoying. This clearly does not follow Android design principles. Without being able to articulate those principles directly, as an end user I am now quite comfortably able to predict when an app will show the keyboard, and when it will go away. This app is different, and there are also cases where the keyboard does not go away when it should. 3) One review on Google Play said there are thousands of little files installed (actually 21,705 files for z/OS MVS on my phone!), and that this plays havoc with CPU and battery usage and SD-card management. I don't know about the wisdom of this, but my phone has indeed got unusually warm just now as I downloaded and looked up a few messages in the z/OS MVS component. (No, it's not a Galaxy Note 7.) As I write, my phone is losing charge even though plugged in. Not good! 4) What is the purpose/intent of the "my contact" stuff? I surely don't need an app that, on the side, stores one single phone number for some reason. It's certainly not an IBM contact who can help with the messages! Perhaps if they could explain what this is for I might get it. 5) Navigation in general is odd, and again, doesn't seem to follow Android expectations. It's unclear why there are two places to enter a message ID. The main screen is the obvious one, but there's a second level that (sometimes) remembers things entered, while the main screen does not. This second level can be reached directly from the menu choice "Search", or one can back up to it from a message explanation, in which case the little teardrop editing thing appears for no obvious reason. Enough for one post. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
