New iOS App Version now available for beta testing!
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@_08 said in New iOS App Version now available for beta testing!:
@hamsterexastris said in New iOS App Version now available for beta testing!:
surely alphabetical is more useful
Nah. You want users to see new series on top and check them out. It's the same on site.
Honestly, it's even less of a problem here than it is on the site; scrolling through the entire list of series on the mobile app is fast and easy, instead of the interminable paging through a few series at a time on the web.
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@marche90 said in New iOS App Version now available for beta testing!:
After a quick (and I mean it), I do find two issues and one suggestion I would like to make.
- As many of you have mentioned, the "To Manga" Button is too small. Personal suggestion would be to have it at the bottom with the rest of the big options.
Add my vote here as well!
EDIT: Oh, and forgot to mention, the default text size is way too small. Fine if you have a bigger phone, but on an iPhone SE, you basically need a magnifying glass (lol)
Agreed here as well, and it's just as bad on a 6s. And related, there's no margin - the text goes right up to the edge of the screen, which makes it harder for your eye to find the start and end of the line. (I used to do publishing layout, and still do interface design as a programmer.) A 3-to-6 pt. margin would improve readability.
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It'd only be too big of "Member" stays there, but really, there is no reason for "Member" (which you never click unless you've been logged out) to be tehre when there is a a big empty space in the corner for it. Here is a mockup that I think works better, and requiers less clicks too.
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Finally got in to test it.
Seems to me the pages jump a bit to much as I try to read through?
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Seems the font settings are incorrect. The font is bigger than what is shown in the example.
Tap to go back a page also doesn't work, which doesn't help with the amount of the screen you need to swipe on iPad.
It appears the percentage of the book is no longer a page ahead of what it is, but has gone back to counting the number of pages instead of the actual percentage again.
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Seems some of the images are getting split when reading per page. This happened to me in Bakarina v2p3
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In the midst of all these suggestions to make the app better I'd like to put in my sincerest gratitude for adding landscape mode for reading as this makes the app significantly more usable for me, and as such I will probably be using this app much more likely compared to how much I used it before. THANK YOU!
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It seems that when you change from landscape to portrait or vise versa the location always goes back to the very beginning of the part, I have not encountered this issue with the manga reader. It would be very convenient if it was able to save the last or first line of what is currently on screen and have it go to that location. Also if possible I would love the ability to lock the orientation of the book or manga and if there was an easy way to check the time without having to bring down the notification center. Whether that be with a clock somewhere on the reader itself or even if you could fit a clock in the settings area for the reader would be great.
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Seems images are not resizing correctly for the display. Some of the images in Isekai Maou V7P1 get split onto 3 pages on my iPad.
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Just checked the latest version 2.1.3 on my iPad 6th gen for light novels.
The discrepancy in font size has been corrected
Images now have a page break, but still do not scale properly breaking them over multiple pages. I believe this is due to the image size being bound to the width of the screen instead of both width and height.
Swipe to turn the page requires a shorter motion, but the animation for the page turn is a bit snappy
Tap to turn doesn't work on areas of the screen where no text is present.
Progression still resets upon changing orientation
The to manga button has been resized. Ideally I would like to see a toggle between novels and manga in the header, this would allow the latest and series buttons on the footer to be used with both. This isn't necessary at the moment but would be a benefit when more manga chapters and titles become available.
The manga reader is not retaining chapter progress. This will make it unclear whether the chapter has been read or not.
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Hitting either yes or no for resume does no different in the new update. They both reset to the beginning of the part.
The more you zoom in on a manga panel, the bigger the multiplier it is when you move around, which can get annoying.
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@legitpancake It was resuming correctly for me. What device are you using?
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@sniper_samurai iPhone 8. When I click resume --> yes, the bottom of the page shows what percentage I had been at, but it is at the top of the part, and as soon as I scroll down, the percentage resets.
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Scrolling/swiping in the new beta is incredibly broken, crazy flashing seizure town:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/364532342720692224/519192659563380776/video.mov
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@legitpancake I have the same problem but with horizontal scroll in my Xiaomi Redmi Note 4.
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A couple of bugs I’ve noticed that I don’t think were mentioned that I observed on my iPad (9.7” iPad Pro):
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When reading novels, images are split in two as if they’re about 1/3 down the page. This is consistent for covers and all other images.
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Tap doesn’t work to go to the next page if there’s an image. Instead, I have to swipe. Tap works for text pages just fine (as does swipe).
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For manga, if I read it in landscape, I can’t always get the last page of the chapter to show up. I could in A Very Fairy Appartment and Realist Hero, but all the other manga I read I couldn’t get to the last page.
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The new version, 2.1.4, is available now.
Swiping works properly, but the animation lags a little if swiping the full width of the screen.
Images are now centred correctly, but are still only constrained by width so continue to be split over multiple pages.
Text is now overlapping the image on the second page which is a major issue. I’d hold off on downloading this version, especially if you read in landscape mode as at least half a page of text gets obscured when an image is displayed.
Tested on an iPad 6th gen running iOS 12.1.1
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The swiping is working again, yes, but it exposes a really annoying behaviour: any amount of swipe (even one pixel) will cause a page turn, so if you accidentally swipe a page, or try to undo your action, the page will turn anyhow. Normally it should be required that you swipe a certain amount (like 15%, or 25%, or something) before it triggers a page turn.
A very quick animation of the page sliding the rest of the way would also be useful for keeping track of which way the page is turning.
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I’m still not able to go to the last page in manga chapters when reading in portrait, though this time I was able to change the orientation to landscape and read it that way. I tested it with the three new chapters just posted, and they all behaved the same way.
I’ve been reading light novels in landscape, and I do get the images spread over two pages, but I didn’t notice the top was covering any text.
I’m reading on an iPad Pro 9.7” running 12.1.1, same as my last post.
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@lilitu93 This is what I get when reading in landscape on the second page of an image
