Make page number display persistent... or not
So, I'm on my tablet with my class textbook open in Verbum in my class, and the professor tells us to turn to page 29. I begin scrolling through the book and the page numbers appear at the bottom of the app as I am scrolling along, and I find the page. Then, the prof asks us to turn to page 34. So, I begin scrolling again... only this time, the page numbers are no longer visible at the bottom of the page. I try scrolling backwards, and then scrolling forwards again... nothing.
What is going on? Why is this the intended behavior? Either make page number display persistent, or don't. Better yet, give the mobile app an option in a Settings menu to make page number display persistent.
(Before you say it, I know you can type a page number destination in the TOC at the top of the app--but I don't want to have to do that every time the professor cites a new page number--manually typing on the on-screen keyboard of a tablet is mildly frustrating, especially when the prof moves quickly through page 34, now 36, now 37, now 39. I shouldn't have to stop taking notes in class to take the time to type each of these in as we go along...)
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Br Damien-Joseph OSB said:
as I am scrolling along
I think you will have better luck with "scrolling" turned off. By doing so, you can swipe through pages and the page number box can remain above. If you tap the screen, it disappears.
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Br Damien-Joseph OSB said:
the page numbers are no longer visible at the bottom of the page
Where at the bottom of the page are you seeing page numbers?
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I never said it was the iOS app... sorry if I was unclear.
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Interesting. I've never seen that page number display at the bottom of a book. I'm using the Android version too, but on a phone, not a tablet. I wonder if that's the difference.
Do you have a phone you can reproduce this on, or does it only happen on your tablet?
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Br Damien-Joseph OSB said:
I never said it was the iOS app... sorry if I was unclear.
Your use of "tablet" made me believe you were not on iOS. It is good to be explicit. My comment, however, was just to note that this does not look like the iOS version of the app.
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I have the same issue on iOS
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JT (alabama24) said:Mattillo said:
I have the same issue on iOS
I don't think you do. Or if so, I don't know how to make page numbers appear at the bottom. In your other thread you were making mention of three sources which don't have page numbers.
Two of them do, see that thread. If you need pictures I can.
I do have the issue of persistent page numbers in iOS (iPhone). For example, in the Dictionary of Science it will change between the title and if far enough into that article a page number. I would like the option to always see the page number
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But you are correct, I've never seen page numbers at the bottom in iOS but I would like it at the top
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Rosie Perera said:
Interesting. I've never seen that page number display at the bottom of a book. I'm using the Android version too, but on a phone, not a tablet. I wonder if that's the difference.
Do you have a phone you can reproduce this on, or does it only happen on your tablet?
Here is the view from my Android phone:
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Let's just be clear for any developer reading this thread... the bug isn't that the page numbers appear. This is a very useful and necessary feature for me. The bug is that the page numbers inexplicably disappear after a few minutes of reading and scrolling. There should be a setting to control this behavior: we should be able to turn it on or off (and I think the default setting should be "on"... page numbers are not esoteric or antiquated data from analog books... people still make and follow citations and references, you know [;)] )
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Not yet, I have not. I will try it, but I prefer side-scrolling to cause switching between the different books I have open in the app, rather than from page to page in the same book. I don't know how eager I am to learn new swiping gestures different from the ones I already have been using for years.
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Br Damien-Joseph OSB said:
I don't know how eager I am to learn new swiping gestures
1 finger: page
2 fingers: book
3 fingers: apps
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Br Damien-Joseph OSB said:
Let's just be clear for any developer reading this thread... the bug isn't that the page numbers appear. This is a very useful and necessary feature for me. The bug is that the page numbers inexplicably disappear after a few minutes of reading and scrolling.
I don't think anyone would think it's a bug that the page numbers appear. I'm mystified as to how you accessed that feature, since I can't get them to turn on even intermittently. Have you tried messing around with the various settings to see which one seems to turn them on/off? I tried everything I could think of and nothing turned them on for me. And I have the most up-to-date version of the app.
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Rosie Perera said:
I tried everything I could think of and nothing turned them on for me. And I have the most up-to-date version of the app.
Are you on iOS or Android? Which specific device?
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JT (alabama24) said:Rosie Perera said:
I tried everything I could think of and nothing turned them on for me. And I have the most up-to-date version of the app.
Are you on iOS or Android? Which specific device?
I'm on an Android phone: Samsung Galaxy S10, running Android 12. It's about a 4-year-old phone. Maybe there's some OS feature that the Logos app relies on for displaying page numbers that is newer than my phone and Android version.
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Br Damien-Joseph OSB said:
Let's just be clear for any developer reading this thread... the bug isn't that the page numbers appear. This is a very useful and necessary feature for me. The bug is that the page numbers inexplicably disappear after a few minutes of reading and scrolling. There should be a setting to control this behavior: we should be able to turn it on or off (and I think the default setting should be "on"... page numbers are not esoteric or antiquated data from analog books... people still make and follow citations and references, you know
)I have scrolling off and I've encountered this problem countless times (also on Android). I don't have an example at the moment, but sometimes the app seems to get confused like after something happens to the display (sorry, vague) and it requires flipping through a few screens before it gets its bearings again.
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Our Android app has been able to display page numbers for some time, although our iOS app has not.
Due to a recent change, page numbers stopped displaying in Android.
We intend to restore that functionality.
Please accept my apologies for the inconvenience.
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A competitor app had a way to show the page indicator inline with the text. for example...
xxx xxlxxxx xxxxxxx [34] xxxfsfsxs sfs fss sdfasdf
Yes that gibberish on purpose. I'd LOVE To see that in Logos Mobile apps. That would solve the OP's concern.
Dr. Kevin Purcell, Director of Missions
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Joe McCune (Faithlife) said:
Our Android app has been able to display page numbers for some time, although our iOS app has not.
Due to a recent change, page numbers stopped displaying in Android.
We intend to restore that functionality.
Please accept my apologies for the inconvenience.
Thank you Joe! Is there any chance a feature like this might come to iOS in the future?
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Kevin A. Purcell said:
A competitor app had a way to show the page indicator inline with the text.
That would give parity for this feature with desktop.
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