Jurnaly

Jurnaly now runs properly on iPad and on iPhone Duo, with layouts built for a bigger screen rather than a phone’s stretched out. ON IPAD Every screen has been laid out again for a tablet. The feed shows rows of stories instead of one card at a time, and categories sit two to a row. In landscape, a story opens as a spread: the artwork fills one side, the details sit on the other. The reader turns into a book, a chapter per page, with the illustration facing the text. In portrait, the artwork takes the top half of the story page and the chapter illustration is shown whole rather than cropped. The tab bar becomes a slim rail on the trailing edge that collapses to a single button, so nothing sits on top of what you are reading. ON IPHONE DUO Unfolded, Jurnaly uses both screens. A story splits exactly on the fold, artwork on the left and the story’s details on the right, and a finished story reads like a real book, one chapter facing another. At the end, the wrap up sits on one screen and what to read next on the other. The app’s controls move into the system’s own side column, under the clock and the signal, in the order iOS uses: back at the top, then the story’s own buttons, then the tabs. The column collapses to one button when you want the whole screen for the page. Folded, the feed and the artwork run right to the screen’s edge, with the controls kept clear of the text. APPLE’S OWN CONTROLS Every icon in the app is now an SF Symbol, and the round buttons over artwork are real system glass buttons. Their colour comes from iOS, so whatever you have chosen for appearance, contrast or transparency carries into Jurnaly instead of being overridden. The tab bar lost its accent fill: the current tab is marked by a shape behind the icon, the way Apple marks a selection. EVERYWHERE, INCLUDING IPHONE The Who and Where of a story now show as icons beside the text rather than labels above it. Back buttons could do nothing at all on a screen you reached from the end of another story, because there was no history behind it. Back now always goes somewhere sensible. Thank you for reading, and for writing. Every story in Jurnaly is finished by people who never meet.