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Ideas for UI/UX improvements

Open fleytman opened this issue 1 year ago • 10 comments

The inspector's appium window is divided into 3 parts. On the left is a screenshot of the device, in the middle the App Source, and on the right the Selected element. ~The problem occurs when you start scrolling down App Source, because the whole window is scrolled. Because of this, I constantly have to scroll up to see what is highlighted in the screenshot and down to examine the structure of the xml. An illogical situation with the Selected element section. I propose to divide these sections so that scrolling works for each of them separately.~ UPD. fixed in 2023.3.1+ version

Screenshot Снимок экрана 2023-04-10 в 19 15 14

Also inconvenient that the size of these sections can not change itself, you can only change the size of the window itself. I think that there are a few solutions here

  1. Add delimiters, which will allow you to change the size of sections.
  2. To add a possibility to make the screenshot smaller
  3. Add the ability to collapse a section
  4. Move the right section down, which gives more space for the middle section
  5. Minimize information in the middle section, add buttons for collapsing, full-text search

For inspiration, let's see how Layout Inspector looks like in Android studio

Environment

  • I am running Appium Inspector Version: 2023.2.1
  • I am on (pick one): Mac

fleytman avatar Apr 10 '23 22:04 fleytman