Grid View: scrolling to correct offset

[ChristianGruen]

Maybe this one is challenging to fix:

When I have many books listed in the Grid View, when I open the detail view and when I go back, the viewport changes (I see other books than before). Everything works fine in the List View.

PS: This also happens when switching to another Android app and back.

[tfonteyn]

Maybe this one is challenging to fix:

it is... it's been a trial and error for a long time now. I know of at least 2 other places in the code where this is not working very well.

[tfonteyn]

improvements coming in next release.

Keeping it short:

• covers are loaded asynchronously (as - sigh - per google recommendation) and the problem is that the view scrolls to the correct, then loads covers, which pushes the correct position down
• solution applied: scroll twice to the same location.

every single time you use a google api ... you end up applying workarounds for unexpected error / side-effects... android is a mess...

bottom-line: it will be better, but probably not perfect... oh well...

[ChristianGruen]

android is a mess...

Good to read that (I didn’t dare say it).

[tfonteyn]

it's well recognised as soon as you get on the community websites... but given that iPhone is the single alternative 👎

They deprecate api's, because they are broken, and replace them with new broken ones... instead of actually fixing the original.

Here's the latest bug I ran into:

NeverTooManyBooks/app/src/main/java/com/hardbacknutter/nevertoomanybooks/utils/PackageInfoWrapper.java

Line 84 in 35f6fc3

public static PackageInfoWrapper createWithSignatures(@NonNull final Context context) {

old android, use GET_SIGNATURES
new android: GET_SIGNING_CERTIFICATES
oops, bug in new android... you now need to use BOTH... brilliant....

it's very demotivating

[tfonteyn]

here you go 7.2.0