The second beta of Pleco 3.1 for Android is available. Two ways to get it this time:
a) Through Google Play. Sign up for our Android Beta Testing group at:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pleco-android-beta-testing
And then sign up for beta versions of Pleco at:
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.pleco.chinesesystem
after which you should be able to get it right from them. (this isn't up yet but should be in a few hours)
b) Directly from our website; APK at:
http://cdn.pleco.com/androidapps/plecodroid-140502-310b2.apk
The Google Play version makes it easier for us to collect crash reports, so please use that one if you can.
This fixes pretty much every bug that's been reported to us in the last week, we think (or at least all of the ones we've managed to reproduce), so if something you reported in Beta 1 still isn't fixed, please let us know.
The main design change is that we've done away with the 'separate tasks' option (which everybody seemed to find annoying versus having just a single task) but added a back stack when jumping around between sections; back will still take you up within a section first, but once it gets to the top of your current section it'll take you to the previous section instead rather than kicking you right out to the main screen.
We're still tweaking this (for example it seems to act up when you run low on memory and some of your older sections are evicted) but please let us know how you feel about it in general as a navigation system. We tend to think that back=up should take precedence over a stricter back stack, one where if you switched between deeper screens via the sidebar you'd jump back between those before you went up to a higher level, but we want this to feel as natural as possible so if that's the only thing that feels natural we can certainly consider it.
We also think we've made some progress with the lag issue, but let us know if you continue experiencing lag, and if so, where specifically it seems to cause the most trouble.
a) Through Google Play. Sign up for our Android Beta Testing group at:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pleco-android-beta-testing
And then sign up for beta versions of Pleco at:
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.pleco.chinesesystem
after which you should be able to get it right from them. (this isn't up yet but should be in a few hours)
b) Directly from our website; APK at:
http://cdn.pleco.com/androidapps/plecodroid-140502-310b2.apk
The Google Play version makes it easier for us to collect crash reports, so please use that one if you can.
This fixes pretty much every bug that's been reported to us in the last week, we think (or at least all of the ones we've managed to reproduce), so if something you reported in Beta 1 still isn't fixed, please let us know.
The main design change is that we've done away with the 'separate tasks' option (which everybody seemed to find annoying versus having just a single task) but added a back stack when jumping around between sections; back will still take you up within a section first, but once it gets to the top of your current section it'll take you to the previous section instead rather than kicking you right out to the main screen.
We're still tweaking this (for example it seems to act up when you run low on memory and some of your older sections are evicted) but please let us know how you feel about it in general as a navigation system. We tend to think that back=up should take precedence over a stricter back stack, one where if you switched between deeper screens via the sidebar you'd jump back between those before you went up to a higher level, but we want this to feel as natural as possible so if that's the only thing that feels natural we can certainly consider it.
We also think we've made some progress with the lag issue, but let us know if you continue experiencing lag, and if so, where specifically it seems to cause the most trouble.
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