Android 1.63.3 - Old issue with the title of a query has returned
This issue was recently resolved, but it has now resurfaced. Long titles for collections and queries are displayed differently: The name of a collection appears as a block above the “New” button, while the name of a query appears in a column to the left of the “New” button, which looks very unappealing when the name is long.
Here are two screenshots of a collection and a query, both of which contain the word “Telecommunications.”
Capacities v1.63.3; none none; Android v16; Chrome WebView v147.0.7727.111 (WebKit v537.36); Mobile (Capacitor); 2.5.2026, 13:21:24; de (Europe/Vienna, UTC+2)
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This has been resolved as of v.1.69.7, along with many other improvements on Android! Titles of queries, even very long ones, are now completely displayed. Thank you!
Unfortunately, the Capacities team apparently decided in version 1.66 to make the inferior option the standard. Now, on mobile, less width is allocated for the title in both Collections and Queries. As a result, titles of Collections and Queries that aren’t very short become much harder to read.
For Collections on mobile, the issue is particularly glaring: only two-fifths of the total width is allocated to a Collection’s title!
On desktop, however, the layout is logical and responsive: once the screen width falls below a certain threshold, the “New” button moves to a line below the title, leaving the entire remaining screen width available for the title. And it works the same way for Queries on desktop. Nice and clean, as expected.
It’s hard to understand why responsive design seems to cease to exist exactly on mobile, forcing a rigid side-by-side arrangement of three elements (icon, title, and “New” button).
If the “New” button were positioned below the title on mobile, as it used to be, there would be enough space for the title - a significant component of a query or collection.
With Collections on mobile, there’s even a fourth element: the search button, eating up even more horizontal space!
Why is all of this squeezed into a single line at all costs?
If the “New” button were positioned below it, not much vertical space would be lost, and the titles of the Collections would be easier to read again.
Unfortunately, the team seems to disagree, because in the latest version (1.65.12), the “New” button takes up space that should belong to the title in BOTH Queries and Collections.
A consistent - and poor - UI design decision, in my opinion.
My enthusiasm for Capacities’ beautiful design is gradually waning. The reduction in the font size of the section titles was the first drawback for me; this button placement is another.
This is solved with the well done design update of one of the last versions.
Now there is space across the entire width of the smartphone for a query's title.
It's important to note that words in titles that exceed a limit of about 16 characters are not truncated - they simply aren't displayed at all.
For example, the German title of a query “Video-Bearbeitung” therefore becomes “Video.”