Hello Gang!
Been coding away on the latest set of Browser and App (iOS, Android & UWP) updates. I wanted to take a few minutes and show you want we have been working on.
This update covers the following areas:
- New results tiles
- Removal of the preview/data button
- Removal of the read button
- Addition of the pin display logic to the browser stories
Let’s jump right in!
New Results Tiles
I had a buddy of mine mention that he thought I should make the user experience mirror what YouTube, Bing’s News Feed and Netflix are doing. I took a look and it appears that the image size is dictated by the Golden Ratio. I’m a rather big fan of math. So this idea sounded great. I got busy updating .XAML and CSS code and am very happy with the result. Sizing/UI has always been hard for me. I’m much more interested in a dense display of information. I tend to like words and not value images as much. So this standard, and I do love standards, of using the Golden Ratio for the images sizes and then making the overall tile a square is wonderful.
Picture shows the iOS app with the new tiles. Light theme. Unfiltered Search EngineHere’s the result on the iOS store app. Larger tiles and golden ratio for the event/story image. I like it.
Here’s the new layout on the Android store app displaying horizontally.
Image is the Android Unfiltered Search Engine app. Dark theme. New tiles.Here’s the new layout on the UWP app. The map button will center the map on the first location in the story.
Unfiltered Search Engine UWP app. Light theme. New tiles.
Unfiltered Search Engine. Android App. Dark theme. New tilesThe preview/data button and the read button have been removed from the apps as well as the browser. After reviewing this it was determined that the extra buttons were cluttering up the display. The information in the preview/data view is displayed in the read view. The only difference is that the app has to run the scraping code to pull the contents of the story all the time now. It is a cleaner look however.
Another update we made was to have the map display in the browser match the display in the store apps. The count of each location is now displayed in the semi transparent circle. This should greatly assist in understanding what is getting mentioned.
Displays the new pins for the events/stories in the Unfiltered Search Engine. Browser. Dark theme.That’s a wrap!
That’s the latest Browser and App Updates. These changes are being pushed to the Android, iOS and UWP stores today, April 9th 2021.
As always have fun with the best search engine for Unfiltered results!
