Overview
This series examines how M3E Canvas carries design intent beyond a screenshot. Its structured document records screens, groups, layers, states, actions, theme, and platform; bounded spatial and responsive rules regularize geometry while preserving author control; preview tests authored flows; and an editable prompt projects the result toward Android or Web implementation. The artifact improves traceability and review, but it does not infer unrecorded product requirements, provide collaboration infrastructure, or verify downstream code.
Learning outcomes
- Explicit screens, groups, states, actions, notes, theme, and platform carry more intent than a screenshot alone.
- The magnet, Tidy, locks, and resize rules regularize geometry within defined boundaries; they do not recover unrecorded rationale.
- The preview exercises authored navigation and local control states, but it does not simulate persistence, APIs, or production behavior.
- The compiler turns structure into an editable Android or Web brief; reversible AI drafts still require author review.
- Browser-local files and self-contained links aid portability, but do not provide server collaboration, hardened secret storage, or downstream proof.
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PlansFAQ
What does M3E Canvas preserve that a screenshot cannot?
M3E Canvas preserves authored structure and behavior that a screenshot cannot: named screens, groups, layers, states, actions, theme, platform, and notes. It still depends on the author to record meaning that geometry cannot reveal.
Can M3E Canvas turn a design into a working app?
M3E Canvas can produce an editable Android or Web coding brief and an interactive preview, but it does not build or verify the finished application. Downstream code still needs product decisions, testing, and human verification.
How does M3E Canvas handle phone and wide-screen designs?
M3E Canvas carries shared navigation, theme, and other explicit relationships across phone and wide-screen regimes while recomputing geometry and, for standalone navigation, converting a bar and rail. It does not specify every intermediate breakpoint or responsive product decision.
Is M3E Canvas suitable for collaborative or production-critical work?
M3E Canvas suits lightweight, self-contained flow exploration and richer design-to-code handoffs, but it is not a server-backed collaboration system or proof of production readiness. Regulated workflows, secret management, formal review, and downstream quality still need additional controls.