iPad & tablets

The card panel

Cards, filters and pickers open beside your collection instead of over it.

Tap a card anywhere on a tablet — a binder, a list, a view, search results, a deck — and it opens in a panel on the right, while the grid you were reading stays exactly where it was.

  • Tap another card and the panel swaps to it. The grid never moves, so you can walk a row of cards and read each one without losing your place.
  • Tap anywhere outside the panel to close it.
  • Everything the full card screen does, the panel does — prints, finishes, prices, adding to a binder or a deck.

Docking

There are two ways people use a binder. One is a glance: check a card, close it, carry on. The other is working through it, card after card, comparing as you go — and for that, having the right edge of your grid permanently covered is the whole problem.

So the panel can be docked. Use the split-view button in the panel's header and it stops floating over your collection and becomes a column beside it: the grid re-flows into the remaining width, and nothing is covered any more.

  • Docked, tapping outside no longer closes the panel — you are working in it, not glancing at it.
  • Closing the panel undocks it, so the next card you tap opens as a glance again.
  • Docking is available on screens that are lists of cards, which is where it means something, and it releases itself if you navigate somewhere it doesn't.

Filters, pickers and other panels

The same panel hosts the surfaces that used to take over the screen:

  • Full price analysis, opened from a card, opens on top of that card in the panel — with a back chevron to return to it.
  • Search filters open in the panel, so you can see your results change against the filters you are setting.
  • Add Cards opens there too, keeping the deck or binder you are filling in view.

More broadly, the sheets that slide up from the bottom on a phone — sort, filter, pickers, forms — present as side panels on a tablet instead. Same contents, same controls; they just arrive from the side, where there is room for them.

Cards per row

Silvane stores one card-size preference and resolves it against your window, so the setting that gives you 2 cards per row on a phone gives you 4 on an iPad in portrait and 6 in landscape. Rotate, and the count follows.

You can change it in Profile → Settings → Grid → Card size, or pinch directly on any card grid on a tablet to resize live and snap to the nearest size when you let go. Pinching is a tablet gesture only — on a phone the grid keeps the sizes it has always had.

Docking and card size interact the way you would hope: dock the panel and the grid re-flows into the narrower space, dropping a column rather than clipping one.

The card panel - Docs | Silvane, MTG Collection Tracker