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Re: Show HN: Weekend Project - Create Simple Android mockup

#21

Post by iworkforthem » Sun, Jul 31, 2011, 5:19 PM UTC

Nice!

You definitely have your MVP done already. Just a suggestion, it would be nice to allow saving of the completed mockup in pdf or img.

The ability of multiple revisions of a mockup would be nice.

Re: Show HN: Weekend Project - Create Simple Android mockup

#22

Post by angry-hacker » Sun, Jul 31, 2011, 5:23 PM UTC

fourspace wrote: post #20

Nice work! I've been hacking on something very similar. What are you using to save the layouts?

The saving part is actually quite odd :) I get innerHTML (with inline css to position the elements correctly) of the layout where you can insert objects and save it to database.

Re: Show HN: Weekend Project - Create Simple Android mockup

#23

Post by 2mur » Sun, Jul 31, 2011, 5:23 PM UTC

Very cool. This could be really handy!

Re: Show HN: Weekend Project - Create Simple Android mockup

#24

Post by svigraham » Sun, Jul 31, 2011, 6:00 PM UTC

angry-hacker wrote: post #22

fourspace wrote: post #20

Nice work! I've been hacking on something very similar. What are you using to save the layouts?

The saving part is actually quite odd :) I get innerHTML (with inline css to position the elements correctly) of the layout where you can insert objects and save it to database.

This is awesome. Maybe, you can store the current elements coordinates to prevent overlapping on top of each other when you click multiple elements at the same time. Not a biggie. Love it.

Re: Show HN: Weekend Project - Create Simple Android mockup

#25

Post by alexanderberman » Sun, Jul 31, 2011, 6:03 PM UTC

alleri wrote: post #3

Nice!

Awesome project!

Re: Show HN: Weekend Project - Create Simple Android mockup

#26

Post by bosie » Sun, Jul 31, 2011, 6:05 PM UTC

looks good.

one thing though: on my 30" the distance between the phone elements and the bin is extremely far (worse on the rotated 24"). move the bin or let me remove an element by dbl-clicking it.

Re: Show HN: Weekend Project - Create Simple Android mockup

#27

Post by angry-hacker » Sun, Jul 31, 2011, 6:18 PM UTC

bosie wrote: post #26

looks good. one thing though: on my 30" the distance between the phone elements and the bin is extremely far (worse on the rotated 24"). move the bin or let me remove an element by dbl-clicking it.

I imagined something like this could be a problem. Thanks for the idea to delete elements with doubelcick. I implemented it already :)

Re: Show HN: Weekend Project - Create Simple Android mockup

#28

Post by georgieporgie » Sun, Jul 31, 2011, 7:00 PM UTC

Very cool, but I totally don't understand the UI. :-)

* I was able to edit some text at some point, but I don't know how I did it, and I don't know how to do it again. Can the text of all elements be edited?

* Double clicking an element deletes it?

Re: Show HN: Weekend Project - Create Simple Android mockup

#29

Post by yamilg » Sun, Jul 31, 2011, 7:48 PM UTC

chriseidhof wrote: post #10

Nice! I tried dragging components onto the screen, took me a minute before I realized I had to click them and then drag them around.

Same here, I was trying to drag all along, I guess that's the natural way we understand apps nowadays.

Great app anyways! keep it up, great work! ;)

Re: Show HN: Weekend Project - Create Simple Android mockup

#30

Post by mikle » Sun, Jul 31, 2011, 7:48 PM UTC

fourspace wrote: post #20

Nice work! I've been hacking on something very similar. What are you using to save the layouts?

For a second I thought they are talking about exporting the mockup to an actual Android layout which made me come back and check for that option, only to not find it. They are just talking about serializing the mockup for later reference.