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[Mike Sandman <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Agreed. Already better than my stock Android calc!  As to the syntax error
message mentioned by Octavian, I too think it's a bit too intense or
distracting.  I love the real-time feedback and would definitely keep that
going.

Perhaps you could do something with font color/style/weight to provide the
feedback rather than printing "syntax error".  For example (and I too am
not a UX designer) text could be red (or italic, etc) for the added text
when the input is invalid.  You might track state using something like a
memento pattern (think versioning) to track states.

STATE 1: *4*      # this is valid, update "last good state", apply "good
style"
STATE 2: *4* *+*    # not valid, find "last good state" and apply "bad
style" to difference
STATE 3: *4 + 4*  # back to valid, update "last good state", apply "good
style"

Hope that it least gives you some ideas, to kick around.  Looking great!
 Keep it coming!!!

-Sandman


On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Octavian Damiean <odamiean@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hello Dalius,
>
> Very impressive! I especially like the swipe up for extended functions.
>
> So far I have only one concern. If you enter an incomplete expression,
> because you are in the middle of writing it, the expression gets
> auto-evaluated as a syntactically incorrect expression.
>
> The only obvious fix I can think off right now is not to have
> it evaluate the expression as you enter it. This might break the design
> goals though.
>
> Other than that it looks very good!
>
> Cheers,
> Octavian
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Dalius <dalius@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi, all,
>>
>> I'm one of developers volunterring on one of Ubuntu Phone Core apps:
>> Calculator
>>
>> Here is our first demo:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yb0blrXyN8
>>
>> We would like to hear your opinions about what you see, what can be
>> improved (especially from design side as we are not designers) and etc.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dalius
>>
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