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by *Hammillian7 » 2014-09-07, 20:07 UTC
Quite agreeing with Scoulder, what I would like, and think feasible, is:
1.- 1 File-to-1 File contents comparison in the Normal (non-syncing) views (like Win version's File, Compare by Contents, in Spanish, "Archivo, Comparar por Contenido"), after preselecting them in any comfortable way. Resyncronizations of lines would be useful and feasible; editing would maybe be too complicated, unless you devise ways of doing it in small screen.
2.- Sync Dirs: as similar and functional as possible to the Windows version, whose most options are very useful: including subdirs (maybe allowing depth limitation), ignoring dates, viewing and changing arrows, selecting showing duplicates / singles, comparing within archives and, for duplicates, direct access to their File-To-File comparison. Also, most of the Win version's available operations are useful, both the syncing button and the right click menu.
I think it's quite a challenge to make it fit in the small screen That's why I suggested in my previous message the use of a virtual pannable (and maybe resizeable) window, that I suppose you have discarded. But, actually, the current Android presentation (with its filename and smaller size, date info) would be similar to it and quite enough and convenient, as long as the current sliding (scrolling) to change viewed pane could be left in any intermediate position and would allow to also verticaly scroll the listed file names (size and date should be placed near to the central division line). Instead of filenames being independently listed in each pane (like in the current, non-syncing view), they could be horizontaly aligned between the 2 panes, when they are duplicates, in this sync dirs view. Then, I'm sure you will choose clever ways of presenting, marking and selecting arrows and files for operations (by my part, the more similar to the Win version, the better).
It could also be somewhat complicate to document, but you could direct the new users to some Web documentation and/or to the Windows version.
I think all this would be an important distinctive advantage of your app with relation to other android file explorers and a demonstration of what can be achieved, even with a small screen. And most of the logic ¿and code? you already have from the windows version.
But, of course, again agreeing with Scoulder, even any part of it that could be added would be very useful and welcome.
Thanks,
Jose
Galaxy S7 Edge with Android 7.0
Still struggling to resist with Windows XP