Android: Choose sorting order

[tobiasKaminsky]

Currently files can be sorted by

• A -> Z
• Biggest -> Smallest
• Newest -> Oldest

This issue is about discussing if (and how) we can allow to change the sorting order.

Ideas:

• Add 3 options with reversed order: Z -> A
  
  
  
  • ugly as hell -> NO
  
  
• Second click on same order reverts sorting order
  
  
  
  • not understandable/visible for user
  
  
• use fast scroll instead of reversing order
  
  
  
  • user can easily and fast scroll down
  
  

Option 3 is maybe independent and should be implemented anyway (#47)

@Spacefish

[AndyScherzinger]

This is how Amaze file manager is doing it:

[mario]

If it's not too much to ask, can you please leave the sort & filter functionality for April? I have a few issues I want to go through first, but I have a quite clear picture of how both sort and filtering should work. Thanks!

[AndyScherzinger]

Hi @mario, sure thing! :) Any reason for April (as in this exact month)?

[mario]

@AndyScherzinger there are quite a few NC Android tasks I have to do before I can revert to sort&filter that are of higher importance at this particular moment, and I don't know how long it'll take me to do all of them - if I do them earlier, sort & filter will come sooner as well, but in that case I'll let you know!

[AndyScherzinger]

Sounds good @mario! :) Beware though that any changes should be discussed first via a GH issue before implementation is started, just to make sure it will get improved and thus getting merged in the end and not declined ;)

[mario]

@AndyScherzinger certainly. You'll get wireframes and all that stuff.

[AndyScherzinger]

That sounds awesome! Happy to have you on board! 🎉

[ldmpub]

Hi,

In Nextcloud Android app, Alphabetical sort order (A - Z) does not work:
http://dl.free.fr/mSJbHjaLG

[AndyScherzinger]

@ldmpub which Version are you running, I just checked the latest master and it is working like a charm

@mario any objection for implementing the order ascending/descending issue before April?

[mario]

@AndyScherzinger absolutely none - let me know how you want it to look UI-wise and I can make it happen if you want.

[AndyScherzinger]

@mario I would have gone for the solution Amaze chose: https://github.com/nextcloud/android/issues/340#issuecomment-254164569

any comments/input @eppfel ?

[eppfel]

If it not hurts too much, that it might be redone with filter in aprils, go for it! Like it.

@ldmpub Looks very weird. Best would be to open a new issue with more specifics.

[AndyScherzinger]

Great, then let's go for it! This will add to the usability part :)

[AndyScherzinger]

@mario preference wise it might already be available but the UI part to set Ascending / descending is missing

[ldmpub]

@ldmpub Looks very weird. Best would be to open a new issue with more specifics.

New issue opened, see #572.

[jancborchardt]

@Andyscherzinger in the original post up top and the discussions we decided to not do the ascend/descend since it's quite confusing and Z->A or Oldest->Newest doesn't really make sense, does it?

[tobiasKaminsky]

@jancborchardt what if you have 1000 files and want to see the oldest file?
As we do not have a "fast scroll", with which you then could just scroll to bottom nearly immediately, we should support this.
It is only one more button in the sorting options ;-)

[eppfel]

The longer the list, the more relevant this use case gets.
But now that I think about it, this adds a tap to the process. Is it possible to introduce ascending /descending as tabs, which changes the options. Therefore we add a tap only to switch and it would be easier to discover what does what.

[AndyScherzinger]

@eppfel what do you mean by a ascending, descending tab? And where? Wireframe?

[eppfel]

Very rough, but that should be understandable. Other options beside name should have small indications (Oldest -> Newest / Newest ->), too.

It was just an idea. I have no idea, if this is easy to implement...

Tap on descending:

[ldmpub]

Hi,

I personally find tabs and terms Ascending / Descending very hard to use (double tap) and to understand (is date x ascending compared to date y?).

From my / end-user point of view a simple list is more effective:

• Last Modified - Older first
• Last Modified - Newer first
• Name - A -> Z
• Name - Z ->A
  
  
  
  • and so on...
  
  

[ldmpub]

An other solution is to create this kind of UI (extract from ES File Explorer), same as above but more rich because each 'list' entry has its own icon:

[eppfel]

Yeah, I would prefer icons as well. I think the idea was to introduce the capability with a small change. I could come up with a more detailed mock-up, but I don't if it is worth it at this point...

[AndyScherzinger]

Uuuuuh, I like @ldmpub's solution with icons :)
This would mean a custom pop up but isn't to hard to implement and the currently active could just be tinted NC blue when opened and a simply click on the icon would close the pop up and set the new order. I think that would still be doable in an okay amount of time and with the tinting would support theming out of the box whenever we start with that feature :)

[AndyScherzinger]

I can start to put up a prototype some time later today based on the icon idea :)

[eppfel]

I would still change the axis of @ldmpub's screenshot...

[eppfel]

Description left, two icons on the right. Doable?

[AndyScherzinger]

@eppfel absolutely :+1:

[AndyScherzinger]

For any further discussion, please see/go-to the corresponding PR #575

[AndyScherzinger]

575 has been merged to master

[jancborchardt]