Pocket Query

This project was purely a personal design challenge, but it proved to be a great exercise in app design.

When you’re writing your queries, it’s often helpful to see a small selection of results. Here you can see the results inline with the editor. Notice the “Limit: 1000” button at the top of the keyboard — this can be changed and turned on and off while you write the query.

For larger queries, you just need a larger editor. Here you can see the editor in it’s maximised state.

For the original problem I had — where my boss was asking for some quick statistics, I realised it would be handy to write the query, but then have a button that could quickly run a count operation on the current query.

For larger sets of results, you would of course need a larger view.

The app needs to allow you to login to multiple Google Accounts and projects. In BigQuery you can also save personal or project queries. The menu provides affordances for all of these scenarios.

Finally, it is handy to have a schema reference to help you build a mental model of the data and write your query.

And, why not make it easy to add a field to your query?