Android users, what should we do next? We’ve been working on stability fixes and bugs for months, so it’s time to turn out eyes toward new features (also known as more stability problems and bugs). I’m going to throw a few in the Feature Requests category with the android-app tag and see how they do…

[image] kueda: new features (also known as more stability problems and bugs) Thank for that LOL :joy:

yeah i would love to see more functionality for adding IDs to other people’s observations and reviewing notifications (the iphone notifications method doesn’t really work, since it doesnt show them all among other things) but maybe that is too broad. I also find that the GPS is slower to hone in an…

I don’t know if this is intended behaviour (so I won’t put it in the bug reports, but will file it here=, but when viewing observations on the Android App, when your scroll down to the bottom of the screen on the observation, it only appears to recognize old style projects. For instance on my mobil…

Notifications on the app are handled differently from on the website. Some of the difference are nice – you can see what the ID someone suggested was, or a snippet of a comment. But the notifications in the app don’t include mentions. Would it be possible to build that functionality into the app? …

[image] upupa-epops: Having a dedicated Identify tab would be really nice. Specifically, what features in Identify are you missing in the Android app? You can already view observations by other people that are “Needs ID” in the Explore section. If we added a “Reviewed” filter you’d have the b…

Here’s my feature request related to the ‘identify’ tab and the app: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/expanded-id-help-functionality-in-app/395 though it only has three votes so maybe it isn’t high priority to people. I think the voting system still is confusing people or hasn’t settled out yet th…

[image] kueda: If we did this, we’d either have to only show mentions in observations, comments on observations, and identifications, or show you the website in a browser for mentions on other kinds of content (journal posts, comments on posts, taxon changes, flags, etc). Preference? Hm, it h…

Doesn’t have to be either or, I’m just pointing out that the app can’t show you everything that might contain a mention, so either we don’t show you notifications about mentions on those kinds of content (journal posts, taxon changes, etc), or we do show them but tapping on them takes you out of the…

This is a random suggestion(no pun intended), but could there be a random observations option on the app? Sometimes it’s good to just look at old observations in an area to see if there’s any I could ID.

Android app feature requests request

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upupa-epops March 5, 2019, 1:05pm 3

Having a dedicated Identify tab would be really nice.

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Android app feature requests request

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