# Android app feature requests request

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/android-app-feature-requests-request/535>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** android-app\
**Created:** [March 5, 2019, 5:08am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/android-app-feature-requests-request/535 "2019-03-05T05:08:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 2:35am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/android-app-feature-requests-request/535/7 "2019-03-06T02:35:19Z")

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> [@upupa-epops](#):
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> 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 basic content you see in Identify. We could add more options to the species suggestions, e.g. taxa from nearby obs and RG obs. Personally, though, if I’m _seriously_ identifying I need a larger screen than my phone, and if I’m not-so-seriously doing it, I’m generally not so invested that I want all those extra options.

> [@charlie](#):
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> reviewing notifications

That’s a big one, but I think that goes in the platform-level fix category. Notifications need help across iNat.

> [@charlie](#):
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> I also find that the GPS is slower to hone in and a bit less accurate on my samsung work phone versus my iPhone personal phone

Nope, not much we can do about that. We use the coordinates the operating system gives us, and we ask it for the most accurate coordinates it can provide.

> [@cmcheatle](#):
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> 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.

Not intended, just overlooked. Will fix.

> [@jwidness](#):
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> notifications in the app don’t include mentions. Would it be possible to build that functionality into the app?

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?

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