Basic Functions

Each one of our applications appears on your smart device via a collection of views called an activity. There are many activities present in an Android application but most of ours contain 3 basic components:

1. Menu bar – Contains status information, menu items and a menu toggle button to grant access to additional controls. Double tap or swipe up on the menu bar to partially hide it and double tap or swipe downward to display it. Note that the menu bar changes colour when pressed and when hidden to indicate your interaction. This control is present throughout the application. If status text is displayed and is cut off you can scroll the text horizontally by pressing the text with your pointer and moving it right or left. The text can also scroll automatically depending on the theming options you set. You can also hold your pointer on the blank space of the menu bar toggle the menu into view.
2. Menu Toggle – When pressed displays an array of menu items or hides them if they are already shown. Note that this button changes colour when pressed to help indicate that you are using it. This feature is present throughout the application.

   Screenshot showing the main activity of IMeasureHeight with numeric annotations of the menu bar and the menu toggle.

3. Menu - Contains additional options that when clicked execute different application functions.

   Screenshot showing the main activity of IMeasureHeight with a numeric annotation of the menu.

4. List – Sometimes an activity might need to display a large amount of data for you to select in such a case the data might be presented in rows or columns that you can scroll. In of our activities if there is a very long list of data you can quickly scroll through it by engaging fast scroll mode by first triple tapping on a list entry and then scrolling in the desired direction. Sometimes lists are paired with a collapsed list known as a spinner. This is often used when there are multiple groups of data to be displayed such that a label or category is implemented.

   Screenshot showing the log activity of IMeasureHeight with a numeric annotation of a linear styled list on the left and a grid styled list on the right, both also feature a collapsed list.

Controls

The controls will vary from one application to the next but most of the time the main functions and settings can be accessed via the menu bar and the menu. Often said functions are controlled through a menu bar button labelled “Start”, this button normally functions as toggle and when pressed will be labelled as “Stop” such that pressing it will stop the main function of the application. As expressed in other cases the user interface may contain buttons or widgets that change the behaviour of the applications functions.

Screenshot showing the the main activities of ICountSteps, ICompass, IResetWiFi and IMeasureHeight.

Settings

The ability to perform customisation is usually present in our applications and can be accessed much like any other control mechanism that you’d find in any other user interface.

All our applications also include deep user interface customisation via the Theme Editor allowing you the ability to change the colours and size of certain UI elements for either personal preference or comfort. In some cases the application might override a user theme because of performance limitation on the smart device or if it is incompatible with an activity for example if the text size has been set too small or if the activity contains a critical function or alert prompt.

Various screenshots of multiple SuperLiteralProducts with different fonts and colours.

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