It looks like the idea pool for Xtask has grown tremendously. The pro version will sooner or later have a tonne of features, hopefully making it a very comprehensive list application. That will be for the pro version which will be available at a much later on time.
I have been toying around with some ideas on how I'd go about laying out the screen, the buttons location, functionality, ease of accessibility. The good thing about the lite version is that I have much lesser features to work out for. The big headache will come for pro i guess, but thats for another post.
I have come up with the following layout idea, based on some other applications from the appmarket for the iphone.
The layout has 3 areas:
- control panel
- action panel
- master panel
Control panel is like the main menu, with sub actions shown in there like viewing all items, favourites, urgent, sms/email option, and settings.
The action panel will have most common actions for each section. For example, when viewing all items, action zone will have a text field and a button for quick data entry.
The master panel will show the main items for each sub. All items will show the items in a list. Settings sub will show all settings.
The control panel will also change to reflect the current sub selected. For example, when all items are being listed out, the control panel will have buttons for new item (with all extra fields for entry), a button to sync (not in plan yet though, maybe for pro version only), a button to mark all as done, and a button for filter.
The workability of such a layout in real life is yet to be tested and worked out. It will surely evolve over time for the development.
Next, I will probably work out the db design for the main task of creating entries, and have a working screen for the main screen up and running.
Cheers!
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