Thank you very much for creating this - I've been looking for a Pronto replacement for a very long time.
I just started using it today, but I'm finding it difficult to design my layout. I have a Galaxy S4, and I'm finding that when I place text then attempt to resize and move it, it often ends up being larger than I resized it to - especially along the edges of the screen.
One request - Could you add text onto buttons, rather than having to add a separate text object?
Any chance of you developing a PC-based GUI editor? Working from the phone for this design work is very painful.
Thanks for the encouragement and especially for the feedbacks…This I really what I need, cause I do see quite some downloads of the APP but no really feedback making me wondering if people that download it, try really to use it.
If they did were they successful ?
I know many of them will be turned down from the fact they are no code learning directly on the GS4 and that looking at RemoteCentral or LIRC can be a pain to get working codes…though many of them seems to work for popular devices ( Samsung, LG, Philips, Rotel etc…). With other APP on the GS4 with some kind of DB automatic lookup the finding of proper code is of course neither guaranteed. One of the advantage with RemoteGate, is you have total control of your IR CODE in the DEVICE DB.
The emphasis of this APP being the replacement of PRONTO remote control.
Believe it or not currently I no longer use my TSU9300 my remote being a recycled GALAXY ACE for this task ( of course via WIFI blasting ). My girl friend find it very convenient, and likes a lot the custom gesture for actions.
“but I'm finding it difficult to design my layout”
Can fully disagree with you especially regarding TextView size and position. Indeed the DESIGN view is the code I started first and I’m using matrix to resize ImageView. For text I actually use the SAME code and do convert text to ImageView and back, solely for the pinch zoom and position.. Depending the text, this is sometimes of ( close but inaccurate ). I have noticed this many times and this is something that definitively needs improvement since it frustrates me. I guess I will get reed of this text to image and back to text conversion asap.
-There is also something missing big time and that is GROUPING of objects. For having serious designer I need to have this in place ASAP.
With these improvement in place I would believe it be much, much better. IE. You could groups a button with its text then select multiple group and zoom / position the selected grouped objects… this is what I like to achieve at some point
“Any chance of you developing a PC-based GUI editor? Working from the phone for this design work is very painful”
Using XML this was in my mind right at the beginning. Maybe I have more tolerance since this is my work, but I do not find so painful using GS4 to design screen. It is something that indeed might take sometimes, but it is done once for all. You might have about max 20 activities…and using the phone any moment to design a screen or improve it IMO is nice ( i.e .:when you commute or are bored, if ever ) You might indeed get frustrated about the TextView alignment size and position and the lack of grouping, but once this is in place IMO it be really not that bad. As you know I use the GALAXY ACE as my main remote, I designed the screen on the GS4 and then on the ACE it is downscaled, now on ACE if we consider ONLY imageView IMO it is workable. Surely less fast and convenient than a PC with a mouse but workable any time you like to design a new screen or improve it. This say doing on the PC with C# be nice for me to better learn .NET ( so I surely consider this but it be once RemoteGate be fully polished ) with all features I intend to have ( grouping )in place. Also need to clean improve the structure of the XML file.
Lastly, what is not acceptable is to loose work designing your screen. RemoteGate sometimes ago did not have the undo/redo. This is now in and I did that quite sometimes ago because couple time I’ve lost screen. All I say here, it takes time, precision but it is doable without to much risk of loosing your work ( if there is no bugs : ) )
“One request - Could you add text onto buttons, rather than having to add a separate text object?”
I thought about it, basically when image button are created then text added to make it actually a new BITMAP…I thought this might not be a good idea for resource I mean having many BMP created.
Also adding text is possible and fine, I see what you mean but were do you want me to place text?:
Centered in icon
-Bottom / Top
-Right / left (text vertical )
And what about the margin relative to the button
I think the better way is to have TEXT being accurate which they are not fully ( when designing ) and the GROUPING feature, this way you could group the button with the text and consider it as a single object. Extra feature of having the text aligned in the center of button or on top / bottom or even vertical left/right would be nice but IMO as separate objects as long as grouping is there.
Again many thanks for the feedback.
Cheers
JM
...after the last update I have no problem with Watchon to remote common devices like TV, DVD, etc. But I miss support for air conditioning, DVB-T TV card for notebook. Is it possible to add these types of devices to your support?
