add progress bar to the bottom of the screen when reading article

[silberzwiebel]

something like KOReader does (look at the bottom of the screenshot, the app also allows for different information to be displayed, e.g., estimated remaining reading time):

[totalizator]

This is already implemented in the web version. Can we have this in the android app?

[NWuensche]

Just to ask before implementing this: Doesn't the scrollbar on the right already fulfill this task? You can see by the position of the scrollbar really fast how much you've still to read.

[di72nn]

The way I see this is that these always-on-screen progress bars may be especially useful for e-ink readers (and maybe some other cases when page turning is preferred over scrolling). The scrollbar on the right is only visible for a short time after scrolling.

I would say this feature is ok as an optional feature, if it doesn't require layout hacks.

[silberzwiebel]

The scrollbar on the right is only visible for a short time after scrolling.

Absolutely true. Even if I pay attention to the scrollbar while "turning pages", it sometimes is not visible on an e-ink display.

[totalizator]

You can see by the position of the scrollbar really fast how much you've still to read.

You could say the same for the web version and somehow there is the progress bar on top :).

Another (irrational?) aspect of this is that having a progress bar visible all the time provides me some kind of comfort when reading.

[Strubbl]

I also like the idea, if we can get such a progress bar embedded nicely into the design and without crazy hacks to the code.