Now that the contest is finished and while waiting for results, I can take some time to explain the design of uTranslate.

First, I had big constraints : only 3 weeks available, no knowledge of QML. So I had to choose a simple subject. A subject that needs as few as ...

Yesterday, I could create version 0.1 and upload it on AppStore !

And today, I finally created version 0.2 of uTranslate :

• list of suggestions has correct text size, correct clip
• list of suggestions has a visual effect when selecting an element
• lang selector has flags without visual artefact (it ...

Full steam ahead !!

uTranslate now stores the languages chosen by user : when you close and restart uTranslate, you find your last settings. And it handles convergence : the layout is modified to handle big screens.

Here is the standard (phone) layout :

And here is the layout for tablet/desktop : the suggestion ...

I worked on improving layout and UI for 'phone' layout :

When you start typing, the suggestion list appears, like a popup under the text field :

And the suggestion list disappears when you click on 'search' or a suggestion :

I decided to enter the Ubuntu App Showdown ! (http://developer.ubuntu.com/showdown/ and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/AppShowdownList)

I plan to write a dictionary/translation app : "uTranslate". The online engine will be provided by Glosbe.com, thanks to their simple API (http://glosbe.com/a-api) and their support ...

When friends came home, I let them try UbuntuTouch on my Nexus7. First, I just said "use edges".

They started and found easily the launcher, then launched gallery, then an image in full screen, and then... lost ! They were stuck on the image, tapping/swapping on the image as much ...

There is an interesting thread in the ubuntu-phone mailing list about the "back" button : https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg02260.html

Some early users are complaining that :

• it's not easy to discover (specially for new users),
• it needs two taps

Several proposals have been made, but only described as ...