RSBandB Mobile Skin Development

Fudge · **Posted:** November 12th, 2010, 2:35 pm

Shane wrote:

Just a note to everyone, despite the pictures the theme still has quite a bit of work to be done on it.

Also, we haven't decided if we're going to use the theme yet so don't get your hopes up.

Hello!

I'm Fudge, and I'm working on coding a new mobile skin.

Todo List

UCP
MCP

Completed

Main Theme
View Forum
View Topic
Pagination
CSS to fit in with this forum
Fix up UI
Base of UCP
PMs
Who's Online List
View Profile
FAQs
View Posts Search
Imageset in keeping with the main site
Resizes All Images to fit except the ones from the Adbot (I think it might be against terms to resize them, so I've left them as they are)
UCP - Important Announcements

Images

Lots of images are at the slideshow, http://img530.imageshack.us/slideshow/w ... hot20101112at210.png Check them out!
If you PM me, I can send you a link to the test forum I'm using, so you can play about with it yourself

Want to see the full imageset?
http://img179.imageshack.us/slideshow/w ... cereadlockedmine.gif
http://img179.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=announcereadlockedmine.gif

The Code

I've utilised iUI and a phpBB style as a base. They are both legal, and without them, this theme would not have been possible. I have put in over 20 hours of work on the theme to date, so do not think me using these is slacking off!
iUI - http://code.google.com/p/iui/
iPhone theme - http://code.google.com/p/phpbb-iphone-style/ (heavily modified, originally was very buggy with lots of clipping)

Adbot · **Posted:** November 12th, 2010, 2:35 pm

Shane · **Posted:** November 12th, 2010, 3:12 pm

Just a note to everyone, despite the pictures the theme still has quite a bit of work to be done on it.

Also, we haven't decided if we're going to use the theme yet so don't get your hopes up.

Chief Snake · **Posted:** November 12th, 2010, 11:29 pm

I think what Shane means (though I have not discussed this with him yet as he is playing SC2 xD) is that you can appreciate we might be a bit cynical of the work coming from someone who has not yet contributed anything major and is also still in their early forum days. However, this does mean a lot to us. You've put in so much effort and we're very grateful for it. Please keep working on it and I'm sure we'll be more than happy to implement the finished product.

Fudge · **Posted:** November 13th, 2010, 3:22 am

Chief Snake wrote:

I think what Shane means (though I have not discussed this with him yet as he is playing SC2 xD) is that you can appreciate we might be a bit cynical of the work coming from someone who has not yet contributed anything major and is also still in their early forum days. However, this does mean a lot to us. You've put in so much effort and we're very grateful for it. Please keep working on it and I'm sure we'll be more than happy to implement the finished product.

Yeah, it's no hard feelings over his above post, there is a lot of work to be done. I've been in correspondence with him and Mike since day one, taking orders. I understand your concern about me having not contributed anything major as of yet, but surely nothing major could ever be contributed if this standard was upheld, since everyone initially wouldn't have contributed anything?

Anyway, I'm continuing to work on this, although have cleared up a few things in my OP, and changed the title of the topic.

Mercifull · **Posted:** November 14th, 2010, 12:38 pm

I think its a great start. If you need beta testers then I have a HTC Desire running Android 2.2

Bryan · **Posted:** November 14th, 2010, 4:28 pm

Dangit, another Droidster beat me.
I'll be testing if you want too, HTC Legend overclocked to 700 some, rooted, with CM RC1/Nightly, basically, I'll be using the Stock Froyo browser, or the CM one to test it, and Mercifull can use HTC's.

Adbot · **Posted:** November 14th, 2010, 4:28 pm

Duke Juker · RSBandB Donor since 07/01/2010

Looks pretty good. It'll be cool when and if it's touched up and implemented.

Jay · Content Crew Oct 26, 2009 - Nov 22, 2012

This looks pretty interesting. It would be pretty cool to try out if it were to be implemented. I'm running stock Android 2.2 on the original Droid currently, if it matters.

Killjoy · **Posted:** November 21st, 2010, 9:49 am

I can test on the Windows Phone 7. I don't know if you where planning on that but I would be happy if you where.

Fudge · **Posted:** December 7th, 2010, 3:09 pm

Hi all. Just want to say that I am still working on this, despite lack of updates to the thread. With regards to testing, I don't know. Shane's the boss, I'm just getting it how he likes it before we even think of testing or implementing. On another note, however, i estimate to finish the UCP tomorrow, and will package it off the Shane for approval, and crack on with the MCP. It's definitely getting easier, despite the 15+ more templates I still have to do.

Jack.

Mike · **Posted:** December 7th, 2010, 4:24 pm

Thanks for the update, we very much appreciate your continued work on the skin for our forums despite our criticism and comments. I'm sure it will turn out great.

Ranging God · **Posted:** December 7th, 2010, 6:25 pm

Dude that is sick, very well done. Hopefully you finish it, and Mike and Shane decide to implement it!

Keep it up.

Fudge · **Posted:** December 8th, 2010, 11:34 am

Mike wrote:

Thanks for the update, we very much appreciate your continued work on the skin for our forums despite our criticism and comments. I'm sure it will turn out great.

Thanks

I just really want to help. I wrote y last message on my iPod, and it was a real pain, the text area wasn't big enough and then the text overlapped, meaning I couldn't see what I was writing, so made lots of typos, which took time to fix. It's really hard to go back to that from working with this while testing.

I don't mind the criticism, you two run a professional website, and for something to be on it, it has to be top notch.

Ranging God, thanks

It already looks a hundred times better than this thread with my recent changes to CSS and images

Jack.

ChrisT · **Posted:** December 8th, 2010, 12:06 pm

this is awesome!!!!

mobile skin will be epicness since I'm usually checking the forums on my itouch anyway. actually i wish more sites had mobile skins.. ill be right in front of my computer and still be using safari on my itouch lol

Fudge · **Posted:** December 17th, 2010, 10:47 am

Well, I packaged it off for Shane and Mike to look at it a week ago, but no response as of yet. I assume that's since there are hundreds of lines of code to look at since the last update I gave them.

Jack.