element-hq / element-hq/element-x-android
Allow user to see the first sync details
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Description
### Your use case
#### What would you like to do?
I would like to see what is going on behind the spinning circle.
#### Why would you like to do it?
Because the spinning circle is not an indicator of progress. It tells me nothing about the actual state of the sync.
Is everything actually going well in the background? Has the process halted? Is anything even happening?
I should be allowed to know this if I want to.
#### How would you like to achieve it?
In a similar way that Android does Developer Options or that Mozilla does Debug Options in Firefox:
have the user tap on something 5 times.
I would suggest that in case of Element X, the UI element to be tapped on would be the spinning circle itself.
### Have you considered any alternatives?
Yes
### Additional context
Using Element X Android v0.3.2, which is currently the latest release.
I have been looking at the "Setting up your account" screen for 20 minutes.
And the sync finished just as I already wrote a long rant in the Element X Matrix room and wrote out this feature request.
It's fine, I'm testman, you can test my patience.
But other people are probably not going to be that accepting of it.
And yes, what contributed to this issue is that I am in quite a lot of matrix rooms.
Will look into what I can do in order to provide a PR, but for now the answer is saldy "No"
### Are you willing to provide a PR?
No
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