Version 1.1(57)

Stacktrace

Reason

System.FormatException

Link to MobileCenter

• https://mobile.azure.com/orgs/Microsoft-MVP/apps/Microsoft-MVP/crashes/groups/6acf755c982c56858568601ae53da5e8e46b535e

When adding of editing an activity, the description field is not scrollable. I try to be verbose in the description field when adding an activity, right now it's hard to edit.

Tested on Xiaomi Redmi 4 on Android 6.0.1

There are several custom renderers inside of iOS/Android that make the apps look like Windows applications. We should use standard data entry types on each platform.

What's the deal with this page? Currently it has only 2 functionalities:

• About
• Logout

These could also be done by making an icon for each in the navigation bar (at least that's how I'd do it on iOS). If there are more settings related things coming in the near future I would create a screen for it using a TableView on iOS which as become the standard there. I believe Android uses a similar standard @jamesmontemagno?

Do we have some docs somewhere?

Would be nice if we had some graphs in the app...
Like how many activities per month, what activity types per month, etc...

Would suggest to do a read-up here for the options in Xamarin Forms : https://xamarinhelp.com/charting-xamarin-forms/
With strong favourite for https://github.com/aloisdeniel/Microcharts

Maybe we can improve onboarding experience by having a better authentication page.

As soon as everyone validate the design I will implement it.

Suggestion

Associated resources

• Background image : Unsplash (maybe an official Microsoft branded image could be better here)
• Blue layer : #0072c6 / Opacity: 0.85
• "Learn more" button background : #FFFFFF / Opacity : 0.18

Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems I can only see the last 10 activities in the list and there is no way to pull up more.

Tested on Xiaomi Redmi 4 on Android 6.0.1

In order to avoid request the data every time so we need to cache the Contribution Area list and the Contribution Type list(this will be a good UX).
We can cache the data for 1 day.

Be able to filter the activities list, on month, year, activity types, etc...

Hi,
This repo has been private for much too long. Please migrate it to VSTS, delete it, or open source it. Thank you.

The icons of activities are in low quality and are grained

Would be great if our MVP account number would be shown on the profile page...

Would be nice to have the design team do a 1 over on it.

New thoughts here based on what I am seeing to mock up:

• Tabbed Page for MainHome
• 2 Tabs -> Profile + Contributions (Top on Android/UWP, Bottom on iOS)
• NavigationPage as the root on Android/UWP, TabbedPage as Root + NavigationPages inside of each Tabbed Page
• Profile Page to have a Info button in the top right -> brings to an about page to log out/read about the app
• Contributions has a list of contributions, top right icon is a + to add new contributions

To help with the open source process we should standardize and correctly fix all of the image assets in the app:

https://github.com/Microsoft/mvp/blob/master/MobileAppGuidelines.md

Additionally, all of the weird data bindings should be removed to normal Images unless they are dynamic. All the static ones can do something like this:

 <Image         
			    Aspect="AspectFill"			
			    HorizontalOptions="Fill"
                VerticalOptions="StartAndExpand">
                <Image.Source>
                    <OnPlatform                    
                        x:TypeArguments="ImageSource"        
                        Android="placeholder.png"
                        iOS="placeholder.png"
                        WinPhone="Assets\placeholder.png"/>
                </Image.Source>
            </Image>

see: https://blog.xamarin.com/material-design-for-your-xamarin-forms-android-apps/

This adds performance, new style, and is the only way to go. It is the default new-> project.

I.e. enter https://microsoft.github.io/mvp/ here:

A few things are going wrong with the login now:

• The SKIP_LOGIN doesn't work anymore. The following line crashes:
  https://github.com/Microsoft/mvp/blob/dev/MVP/MVPUI/CustomControls/MVPNavigationPage.cs#L18

This is due to the fact that a Color is expected but it receives a OnPlatform<Color> right now.

• For the MVP people that sign in through the actual LiveID login the following line is problematic:
  https://github.com/Microsoft/mvp/blob/dev/MVP/MVPUI/LiveIdLogOn.xaml.cs#L66

This only shows a modal instance of the MyProfile page. No tabs, no way to get to the activities :)

Do you have a list of the features that the application should have built into it. I am trying to figure out why some of the packages are in there.

Even if a small bullet list.

In contribution list page, some item have not prefix title text before colon.

In contribution detail page, if we save contribution failed, it didn’t show any error message.

Version 1.1(59)

Stacktrace

Reason

System.FormatException

Link to MobileCenter

• https://mobile.azure.com/orgs/Microsoft-MVP/apps/Microsoft-MVP/crashes/groups/4461f202af86c62b489cdecbc5b9c77ad394daaf

Is this possible? It will cache our token correctly and work really nice. Seems like we are using a browser?

We should better to add confirm logic for the delete operation too, because we operate a business - sensitive data.

Are there any specs we can use to see what is going on on this page? I'm no MVP myself so I have no idea what kind of stuff is being displayed here or what else we can pull out of the API. That would make it a lot easier to start thinking towards how we can put that information on screen.

I did an iOS style mockup with what I know is being displayed on there but this is just something I made up. Could use some discussion to create a final direction for this screen :)

1. It is better just use one progress ring. And user should not see the grid while initializing(iOS).
   
2. We should just load 10-20 contributions while initializing and load more when push to refresh. And for current version, if we just load 20 contributions we will see white space on the top.
   

I have met many times this problem, but not always met.

Solution: 1. Remove the block of DesignMvpService. 2. Move the block of DesignMvpService to try-catch block. 3.Refactor code for ProfilePhoto:
ImageSource retSource = null;
bool useDefault = false;
byte[] bytes=default(byte[]);
if (StoreImageBase64Str != null)
{
try
{
bytes = Convert.FromBase64String(StoreImageBase64Str);
}
catch
{
useDefault = true;
}
}
else
{
useDefault = true;
}

if (useDefault)
{
bytes = Convert.FromBase64String(CommonConstants.DefaultPhoto);
}
retSource = ImageSource.FromStream(() => new System.IO.MemoryStream(bytes));
return retSource;

I just logged in and it shows up completely blank.

The app works once. On re-opening the app receive "Microsoft MVP has stopped".

Most likely related to the Auth token, as if I sign out before closing the app, I am able to run the app a second time (and follow the complete login process again).

• Open an activity for editing
• Close it
• Click on the Add activity button

Result:
The values for the activity you opened for editing are shown.

Steps:

• Log in - White status bar on blue background
• Go to settings
• Log out

Result:
Login screen shows up again but this time with a black status bar on the blue background.

The MVP icon on the splash screen seems a bit blurry.

Tested on Xiaomi Redmi 4 on Android 6.0.1

We need to replace “Activity” with “Contribution” in the source code.

Version 1.1(46)

Stacktrace

Reason

System.FormatException

Link to MobileCenter

• https://mobile.azure.com/orgs/Microsoft-MVP/apps/Microsoft-MVP/crashes/groups/595e04ecc50f5c3f800df3c742c6dcad7e55ec79

Just a suggestion that @jfversluis came up with:

Perhaps we should rename the app to something short and sweet. Currently the name on my iOS app overview screen is "Microsoft..." which doesn't tell you a whole lot. Suggestion was to maybe rename it to "MVPBuzz" to also link into the hashtag on Twitter. What do you guys think?

Something a lot of MVPs seem to forget is add their activities.

It would be nice to have some kind of reminder with this app. Like: one a month, a month before July 1st. Something like that and receive a push notification (could be local), and of course the ability to en-/disable it.

Add culture resources with .resx files instead of having hardcoded labels everywhere in the code.

Seems the current Contribution Model will clip the title property to only show 40 chars.
This is done by using the TitleDisplay property.

But when running the app on UWP or in landscape mode on iOS or Android, we are not seeing the whole title and are always getting the pre generated "..." three dots.

We cannot see the description after loading.

Tap the editor for the Description, the text will be shown below but not on the top.

The official MVP site calls everything activities, we call it contributions. We've settled on the fact that they're one and the same, but I would suggest following suit with the actual MVP site and calling them activities. That way no gets confused and everybody is happy.

Settings icon in the command bar of the main page when the My Profile tab is selected is to small or does not look very nice.
Also currently in Xamarin forms we have no way to use Font Icons with Glyphs for AppBarButtons ;(

There are different namespaces in use for both the shared projects. Some files seem to have been moved from MVPUI to MVP project without altering the namespace accordingly.

If user have registered app for the old Live SDK(MSA applications) long time ago, they can see "Converged applications" section and "Live SDK applications" section. They can follow our current document to run our source code with the real MVP site API.
If user is a new developer for Live SDK, they cannot register the MSA applications but only can use the latest MSAL(We will support that in V2).