UI Cloud

[Erel]

UI Cloud is an experimental new planned feature. It currently only exists on the drawing board.

This is however an interesting feature and your feedback is welcomed.

The idea is to allow licensed users to send their layout from the designer and see screenshots of the UI from real devices maintained by Anywhere Software. Devices will cover the common sizes and versions.

It will only show the designer UI (including the designer scripts).

UI Cloud will help you with testing your layouts on real devices with different sizes and versions.

 

[NJDude]

Sounds good to me.

 

[Cableguy]

Seems very interesting, but you (B4À staff) will be flooded with new UIs

 

[vb1992]

this is great, just like browsershots.org for websites

* only downfall with broswershots is that you end up being
thrown into a waiting que for a long time

 

[JonPM]

I'd be more than willing to wait in a queue. Sounds like a great idea.

 

[bluedude]

Not sure exactly what you want to do but, have you thought about something else?

Run a cloud of devices where subscribers can volunteer to do a visual check if a UI behaves well? These subscribers volunteer for receiving a layout in a B4A app. on their device.

So devs. can deploy to a bunch of devices (maybe through push notifications) and the users just say: looks ok to me or does not look ok.

You wouldn't need to have and run all these devices because volunteers would have them. You can never own all the devices that users have, impossible.

Every developer could actually get volunteers for you through their app by supporting the system. This is also a great way to advertise new apps, users get early preview screenshots and rate them.

So basically the cloud of devices is created among users and not run by you. This is also a way for developers to get to users.

Maybe you can even record which people subscribe through which app.

Cheers,

 

[bluedude]

Actually this company does what you want to do:

Mobile App Testing & Monitoring - Keynote DeviceAnywhere

I think it is the wrong approach because users are willing to help with their device. They love to see what developers are working on.

 

[BPak]

Like your idea of doing this Erel.

I would find it very helpful as I only have a Bauhm Tablet to test with.

 

[TheJinJ]

I posted in the test my app forum about a circle of testers that were all willing to test on various devices. And automated service would be great.

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