Select All button missing in tablet inbox view

[mjoa]

Hello,

I'm using the full version of AM on the 2013 Nexus 7 and I have Two Panel UI turned off.

When I view my inbox in portrait mode I don't see the select all icon (four small squares inside a larger square) that I'm used to seeing when using the app on my phone.  When I hit the refresh icon from within my inbox the select all button appears momentarily but it disappears as soon as the refresh is complete.  The only way I can select all is to hit the menu icon and then hit Select List from the drop down.

I know this is small niggle but when going back and forth from the phone to tablet I find it really throws me not being able to consistently do this in one click like I'm already used to (have been using AM on phone for some time and just got the tablet recently).  It seems to me that there is plenty of room, even on a 7 inch tablet in portrait mode, for that icon to always be visible.  Am I simply missing a configuration setting?  If not, can this be fixed?

Thanks,
Mike

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Hmm. Just tried it (Nexus 7, last year's model, Android 4.3). It's there in both land and port.

Can you clarify, maybe post some screenshots? Or contact me at kmansoft / at sign / gmail / dot com?

[mjoa]

Thanks for taking a look.  That is the same view I'm using but I can't see the icon in portrait view.  (It is there in landscape.)  Here's my screenshots.

[someone]

I can confirm.

The "select all" button which is present in the SMARTBOX  toolbar is absent in the toolbar of the *individual account inbox*. (underline would be helpful here. ;-))

[mjoa]

Just noticed something else regarding this that might be useful.  The select all icon does show up briefly every time I hit refresh.  As soon as the mail check is finished the icon disappears again.  I managed to grab a screenshot just as the app was checking the mail server so you can see what I mean.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Thank you.

The top icon bar is a system level component, I just tell it what icons to show, and it tries to fit them all on the icon bar first, then pushes whatever it thinks did not fit into "the overflow" (which is Google's fancy name for the "three dots menu").

I've seen bugs in this system component before (the Samsung S3 last year), it's possible there are new ones, related to the new 2013 model's screen resolution...

Unfortunately, I don't have a way to fix it from my side, short of removing some of the icons from the bar, which seems like an overshoot to me (for one device's sake).

The icon is still there under the three dots, right?

[mjoa]

I see what you are saying. I will try logging this bug with Google then. It's rather silly considering there is less available space when the refresh is happening yet that is when the select all icon appears. :-P

I don't see an icon in the overflow menu but there is a text entry "Select List" which makes things workable. As I said, it's not a crucial issue and just a small annoyance to work around. To be honest, I'm now in the habit of tapping refresh and then hitting the select all button while it's visible. Works well enough. :-)

Thanks for your responses. Will take this to Google and see if anything can be done.

Regards,
Mike

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[Kostya Vasilyev]

A small follow-up:

This breaks down how many icons are supposed to show depending on the device's screen metrics:

http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/actionbar.html

It says four for a 7" tablet

Let's do some math:

- 2012 Nexus 7, 800 pixels at 213dpi is 600.9 logical pixels

- 2013 Nexus 7, 1200 pixels at 320dpi is 600 logical pixels again

So both models have (almost) exactly same screen size, in logical device independent units, which also matches the older 7" 1024*600 tablets. This means there should not be any difference in how the system lays out the action bar.