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This is the official feedback thread for our Android app
I will be tracking bugs, feature requests along with providing any support that's needed. This post will be updated over time so we have all the latest and greatest for easy access.
For the users that have already been testing, lot's have been updated. Some changes have been influenced by previous feedback... so please keep it up!
Quick tip sheet
I created this to show all of the hidden features that you may or may not be aware of. In the future, we do plan on creating in-app tip overlays to help new users but until then, this will do.
Recent changes
Feature requests
Planned features
Latest Build 1.5.5.3
This is the official feedback thread for our Android app
I will be tracking bugs, feature requests along with providing any support that's needed. This post will be updated over time so we have all the latest and greatest for easy access.
For the users that have already been testing, lot's have been updated. Some changes have been influenced by previous feedback... so please keep it up!
Quick tip sheet
I created this to show all of the hidden features that you may or may not be aware of. In the future, we do plan on creating in-app tip overlays to help new users but until then, this will do.
Recent changes
- Most recent now shows all site data
- Trending filter now matches site
- Timeline filter
- View thread in browser
- Post numbers
- Share post (supports post number and page)
- Speed improvements
- MyStuff sorts by last post (more updates coming)
- New support dialog (now attaches a nice neat file)
- Added support for spoilers
- Improvements to formatting images in main body of content
- Few UI improvements here and there
- New @mention support
- Improved quote formatting to look more like the website (still a few changes left)
- Reworked news article layouts so hero image takes up less room
- Improved timeline images and how they are resized/displayed
- New rich toolbar and support for bold, italic, strikethrough, capture pictures, attach files and URLs
- Improved html/bbcode handling and the way I convert between the two formats
- Added thread tools/options and listing thread like count
- Improved speed loading channel/forum and handling backstack
- Few other UI improvements
- 2-Step authentication support (app codes, email confirmation code, and backup codes supported)
- https (now all app/server communication is done using SSL)
- Lot's of new format handling for bullets, lists, tables, etc.
- Speed improvements for first opening and throughout the app
- Breadcrumb nav for quickly navigating between channel and thread
- New community icons and colors (device icons keep the same color per manufacturer)
- Now show names for Favorites, this really helps when you have multiple devices favorited
- EarlyBird News features such as read more and source links as well as article image
- Fixed spoilers handling formatted text
- Fixed quoted text size
- Fixed login bug for new users
- Fixed spoiler bug that caused spoilers not to work
- Fixed jumping to latest post from notification
- Fixed crash on new thread
- Fixed multiple other odd instances causing crashes
- Fixed multiple memory leaks
- Fixed bug where toolbar buttons did not work when toolbar was collapsed
- Fixed favoriting issue related to the star toggle
- Fixed crash involving certain devices at sign in
- Fixed crash involving lower SDKs when opening reply/new post window
- Fixed sign out of account (deletes all user data for security reasons)
- Fixed token refreshing (bug that was not refreshing correctly due to mult-threading)
- Patch for duplicate launcher icon (used for format testing, my bad)
- Fixed issue with news hero image getting stuck and still showing in channel view
- Fixed muli-reply only quoting the first selected
- Fixed quote formatting that is broken in some cases
- Fixed posting a new thread errored on a 'channel' (was missing forum id, which acts as a parent)
- Fixed error when posting a new thread to a channel that does not exist yet
- Fixed breadcrumb navigation bugs
- Fixed adding attachment bug
- Fixed pull to refresh bugs
- Fixed user token not refreshing correctly if the user was signed in via their AF username and pass
- Fixed scrolling to proper thread reply
- Fixed support for users that have devices with no Google Play Services installed (limitations)
- Fixed adding a community and backing out the main screen, you may need to exit and re-open the app for this to properly refresh and show in the forums tab.
- Fixed after adding reply, the thread does not refresh accordingly
- Fixed opening /attachment/... links
- Fixed handling URLs when clicking from within a thread
- Favorites name issues and grid spacing for smaller screens
- Formatting issues with spaces and special chars (needs investigated)
- Opening /attachment url and then hitting back causes black screen, hit back once more to get to app
- Verizon icon (and maybe others) is not being used correctly or not at all in favorites
Feature requests
- Improve contrast on pagination bar arrows
- Emoji solution to know what are supported or support them all
- Sorting and placement of favorite icons
- Improve contrast on certain button images for dark theme (test different brightness)
Planned features
- Improvements to current text formatting as well as handling other features such as video thumbnails, polls, etc
- Notification formatting improvements
- MyStuff improvements. This just needs a design overhaul
- Read and unread for posts and threads throughout the app, keeping sync with the website
- Drafts for new posts
- Filters for the devices and apps/games tabs on the add communities window
- Global app persistent search
- Click actions on avatars to show user information, most likely implemented using bottom sheet spec
- Endless loading for lists such as timeline and threads
- Handling images more gracefully throughout the app
- Treat attachments and inline elements differently (images, files, etc)
- New user sign-up in app rather than just link
- Better in-app options for easily requesting support (gets the user in contact with the person that can help the best)
- Handle forum announcement messages in app
Latest Build 1.5.5.3
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