(New) App Feedback
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Beta 0.8 is now available on iOS Testflight as well. New bugs and old bugs that still persist:
- Pagination does vertical scrolling -- according to chocolatkey on Discord, this happens for font sizes above 100%, and it'll be fixed in the next build.
- When pagination works, it doesn't take into account safe margins (notches, camera cutouts) -- according to chocolatkey on Discord, it'll be fixed in the next build.
- In vertical scrolling mode, when changing orientation of the device (switching from/to portrait/landscape), the position of the text jumps around. To replicate: open a part, scroll down a bit (the further away from 0% the bigger the jump), tap to see the current percentage, rotate the device, observe that the percentage hasn't changed but the text has jumped ahead (portrait to landscape) or back (landscape to portrait), scroll a bit to see the percentage bar jump instantly to the new position.
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In v0.8.0 the dark theme became lighter due to an unexpected change in the underlying framework. It will be darker again next build
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Just as a point of feedback, I really like that in the new Android release, it now keeps track of how far into each part you've read instead of just whether you opened it.
However, I still seem to get prompted frequently upon starting the app to "continue where I left off" when I don't have anything that's partially completed (everything is either completely read or completely unread). So far I've just been hitting cancel instead of trying it to see where it takes me, which I'm guessing would be useful for debugging. I'll try to remember to see where it goes next time that pops up.
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It actually did it to me right after I wrote that. It took me to page 1 of the most-recently-read title (which was indeed marked completed). Was Reborn to Master the Blade Manga V2C2 in case it matters.
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@chocolatkey sorry for the late reply, I wasn't following the forums. I've been using it the whole week on the Huawei mate pad 10.4 without any crashes.
ah, and maybe I'm using it wrong but I've always thought Google play was just k e part of gms https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_mobile_services but I think I know what you mean.
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Can you let the users choose the option between scroll-down and slide on novel-reading or at least have it on setting? I prefer to slide when reading on book on iPad instead of scrolling down
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never mind found the button to do it. But can you also put that options on preference? It took me 2 hours to notice that option exist
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Good work so far.
I have one suggestion for the iOS app:
Of course i understand that marking of text in general is not a good idea,
but as non native english speaker it would be nice to mark single words or single phrase for translation. -
I just got prompted for an update from the Play Store on my Android device. Congratulations on Google FINALLY approving your app. :-)
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Paragraph line spacing for the app would be greatly appreciated :>)
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I've generally noticed that the app seems to have a relatively large drain on my device's battery - especially considering I'm using low brightness and dark-mode combined with an amoled screen. I'm using the android app, version 0.8.0 (though this has also occurred in previous versions).
As came up in the Discord discussion with @chocolatkey , I am using vertical scrolling mode - and I tend to scroll bit by bit as I read (scroll every few lines read).
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Beta Android app just stopped working.
Error message:
Failed loading releases: No response received from server - Connecting timed out [1 0000ms]Website still seems to work.
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@abcdave seems too be resolved. Thanks
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With Android app 0.8 on Android 11 - Samsung a32 - if I go to series and look at follows:
With 19 series followed, it works fine.
With 20 series followed, it scrolls through them over and over again. -
Feature request: offline mode so you can read on flights. Limit storing them for two or three days would cover most I think all flights.
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Until now whenever I opened a new chapter, first page had HUGE BOLD CHARACTERS (like size 36 when the normal size should be 12).
Since yesterday chars have the right size.
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On the latest iOS TestFlight beta, whenever I go to the next part at the end of a part from within the reader, the releases page will not update the progress properly for those parts after exiting from the reader.
In addition, if after finishing e.g. Part 1 and Part 2 and then returning to the Releases page, and then, when re-entering into Part 1 or Part 2, it will reset the read progress to 0 and lose track of the actual progress/ completion status.
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Thank you for your hard work on the app! Hoping that v1.0 solves the remaining glitches with horizontal reading.
For the future, I've a couple of requests:
Feature request: keep track of read parts
Unless you're quite disciplined, if you're reading many series chances are that you may not be up-to-date with all of them. For example, I may have read a part half way through before doing something else, and forgot to read the rest.
Currently on the beta app, you can long tap on the part (which I just learnt about) allowing you to go to the volume and look at your progress for the other parts in the corresponding volume, but it's still a few taps away, and requires more steps if you want to look at previous volumes.
For my web app, I'm having all parts showing horizontally, which I think it fits better. I've a demo at the bottom.
Feature request: show upcoming parts
And to know which parts are coming up and when, it would be nice to also having them showing in the app. The demo also shows this.
Demo: https://imgur.com/x3bqEdB
I do like how I managed to get these features, but there may be more appropiate approaches. (I admit I'm being quite heavy on the API.)
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@crimson-wise A lot of the background work needed for these features is going to come with a new backend, so it will take a bit. We are going to be getting rid of events entirely for example and replacing them with unavailable parts and other metadata.
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@chocolatkey Happy already to know there is interest. Thank you for your work, and congratulations for the v1 release!
