I have tried new beta android iNat next app from Github and I did like how explore functionality has certainly expanded but it also got back in few things. I don’t know how more things will change as I have definitely seen three issues I had with it were solved by staff already without complaints from me (also should I provide feedback for it on GitHub issue from my experiences or should I just wait until hard release for such?) -
- The explore kingdom select is single select unlike current app multi, so I can browse one kingdom at a time (ideally a comma separated taxon numbers accept would be very powerful here so if web users can copy their urls to app) - 1. planned
- The viewable area is utilised less with unnecessary size inflation of other things, so I will be scrolling lot more than in current app for same number of observations
- If I identify I would be IDing few dozens at a time, and doing additional confirmation for all those in sequence is time wasting since I already have intent and more so if my IDs are consecutive. Maybe that additional dialog should disappear from IDs in last X duration signal or someother and reappear long after I took break - as I guess the intention of that dialog is to stop misclicks and not slowdown all IDers forever
- There is no badge between RG and non-rg as in current app directly from explore page, so I have to click everytime to see (simply filtering out via search of both is not my intention as I also want to correct RG mistakes and not do two searches always)
- The location search is ephemeral in new app, so if app crashes or I close I have to search locations again and there is no 10 search locations list as in current app too - so full location typing everytime for all those. (Ideally not just location cache but also snapshots save of full filter in app is very powerful for IDer just like web url filter bookmarks - so I can easily switch between them and ID)
- The annotation fields are not there in new app
- There still is no flagging options like copyright or such (although DQA exists)
- Compare taxon photos option with IDing observation side-by-side is lost. I use it very often. - 8. planned
Maybe some of these are planned or ignored entirely idk. Just my experiences as of today
also headsup for this open feature request asking for identify revamp within app