Kiwix-android: text being cut on Help screen

[siddharth2010]

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• [ ] Feature Request

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Step 2 : What is your environment ?

• browser / app : App
• version of the software you use : 2.3 Build 55
• device / operating system : Android 7.0 (Samsung Galaxy S6)

Step 3: Describe the problem:

• What do you obtain? A copy of the error message or a screenshot is always useful
  The text at the bottom of the help screen is being cut.
  this is the screenshot of the bottom of the app:
  
  while this is the one that should actually be displayed:
  

• When does this occur?

Steps to reproduce:

1. navigate to the bottom of the help screen

2. What should be the behaviour from your point of view? How do you expect the service to work?

The text should not be cut and the card ending should be properly displayed

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Feature Request

Feature Description

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[siddharth2010]

I would like to work on this issue

[kelson42]

@siddharth2010 I do not understand the problem, can you not just scroll down?

[siddharth2010]

yes thats the problem... I cant scroll down below that

[kelson42]

@siddharth2010 Then go ahead :)

[siddharth2010]

I checked the app with quite a few devices, and came to the conclusion that this is an issue with the Samsung android rom and not with the app. this issue is present in both Samsung S6 and S7.

[omkarprabhu-98]

@siddharth2010 Even I am facing the same issue. I have Motorola G4 Plus.

[brijeshshah13]

@siddharth2010 @omkarprabhu-98 Can you please try adding android:paddingBottom="20dp" (you can change the value to what suits the best) and try to test it again on the devices in which the last card gets cut off and let me know if that works?

[siddharth2010]

@omkarprabhu-98 , I actually tried it on a moto g4 plus myself, and it was working perfectly.

[siddharth2010]

@brijeshshah13 , I already tried that. It doesn't work. However, adding a "space" widget of height 85dp in the end fixes this issue on my device. But then the devices on which the app was earlier showing correctly start showing a blank space in the end...

[siddharth2010]

Hey @brijeshshah13 , @omkarprabhu-98 I found a fix.

[siddharth2010]

I uninstalled all instances of the app from my phone and deleted the kiwix associated folder from the internal storage. Then I reinstalled the app and now it's working perfectly on my phone.

[siddharth2010]

This does sounds a bit unlikely, but after opening and closing the app a couple of times, the same thing started happening again, and so now the text is again being cut.

[brijeshshah13]

@siddharth2010 Okay. Thank you for the updates. Did you add the padding in the ScrollView? Please test that first. If that doesn't work out, then please try to change the layout_height to match_parent and see if that works for the good? Try this first for the Linear layout of the last 2 TextViews and if that doesn't work, then for the top most Linear Layout. Meanwhile, I will try to arrange one of those phones and test it out.

[siddharth2010]

sure, just a second.

[siddharth2010]

@brijeshshah13 , I tested this on 3 phones: 2 android 7.0 and one android 6.0.1.
heres the report:
Samsung S6, and Moto g4+ (android 7.0): text was being cut initially,
Coolpad 3600I android 6.0: layout was initially perfect.

after adding padding to scrollview of 85dp, the layout on samsung and moto phones was perfect however, on coolpad it showed a persistant space on the screen.

the rest of the fixes had no effect.

[brijeshshah13]

@siddharth2010 Alright. Well, let's put this issue alive then until someone gets a workaround or a solution.

[siddharth2010]

sure.

[harsh-2711]

I have made necessary changes in PR #524. Please review it.

[jb1998]

@siddharth2010 @brijeshshah13 I saw a weird thing

Surprisingly, the bottom text is visible when "Keep Toolbar Visible" is enabled.

I was about to open new issue for this unwanted relation between "Keep Toolbar Visible" and bottom text but then I thought it should come under this issue only.

gif showing the issue

Steps to reproduce:

1. In help screen scroll to bottom and last few lines are not visible
2. From settings enable "Keep Toolbar Visible"

3. Then again in help screen scroll to bottom and surprisingly the last few lines are visible

4. What should be the behaviour from your point of view? How do you expect the service to work?
   The last few lines should be visible no matter "Keep Toolbar Visible" is enabled or disabled.

[brijeshshah13]

@jb1998 Indeed. @harsh-2711 is currently working on the issue with another approach. However, you can create a new issue to solve this particular issue.

[jb1998]

@brijeshshah13 Okay.I opened a new issue to remove this unwanted relation between "Keep Toolbar Visible" and bottom text :)

[abdulwd]

Redundant by #803.