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How do you make a spatial finder work with multiple devices that have different screen sizes?

• chongli 7y ago
  Same way you draw a UI for different screen sizes: you scale it. If you were doing this from scratch today, you'd use a resolution-independent UI drawing library, such as one based on vector graphics. As for wildly different aspect ratios (portrait vs landscape) you're just going to have to compromise. As long as you have a mechanism to make sure windows can't get lost outside the bounds of the screen, you should be fine. It the problem should only happen once, though. After your files have been synced between the devices for the first time, thereafter each device should maintain its own window positioning.
  • anoncake 7y ago
    If you scale down a large display to a phone-sized one, either usability is horrible on the phone because touch targets, text etc. are too small or you cannot use the space of the large display effectively. > After your files have been synced between the devices for the first time, thereafter each device should maintain its own window positioning. No they shouldn't. That breaks the entire metaphor because now items don't have a single spatial position anymore.