Interface
Goal: learn the five tabs and the panel gestures, and know what each screen is for.
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Five tabs#
Five tabs in a fixed order (a side rail on desktop) — the order never changes:
| # | Tab | What you do there |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Map | the base: station markers, tracks, toolbar, map menu |
| 2 | Stations | stations you received: filter, search, detail, favourites, playback |
| 3 | Messages | one list for direct and group chats, with unread badges |
| 4 | Packets | raw packet stream (copyable, filterable) and the graded log |
| 5 | Settings | eight categories plus honor wall, translation, ADIF, themes, tracks, backup |
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The map is always the base: other tabs raise a panel over the map, and tapping Map again lowers it — so you can always get back to the map.
Panels & Back key#
- Drag the panel with its top handle — or simply drag the bottom navigation bar, the biggest target on screen.
- Drag from a list edge too: pull past the top of a list to lower the panel, push past the bottom to raise it. In the middle of a list, scrolling wins — that range must stay scrollable.
- Chats expand by themselves: opening a conversation or group raises the panel to full height so the input box is visible; going back to the list restores it.
- Offline banner: while disconnected an orange bar sits above the map (the whole bar is tappable and connects). Sending, beaconing and messages are all dead then, so don't be fooled by a normal-looking screen.
- Back key: only exits the app from the Map tab; elsewhere it lowers the panel or goes up a level, so you never quit by accident.
- Tabs are never torn down: scroll positions and the open conversation survive switching (pages are cached, not rebuilt).
- Landscape: Android locks portrait by default — enable “allow landscape” under Settings → Advanced.
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Check the gestures: scroll the station list halfway → tap Messages → tap Stations again; the scroll position should still be there.