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Brave Android Users: Beta is Available
3 years ago
It isn’t the Android Market yet, but for those of you willing to help us find bugs the beta is for you. The Android beta is ready to go, and can be downloaded.
The two big updates to the Android client this release are:
- We’ve reset the Welcome Sequence flow so that it’s re-shown to users again; this is to help try to bump user regs.
- We’ve introduced the new Social Photos concept. You can find this by tapping into a product details page, and then tapping on the new “Activity” button in the bottom right. You’ll then be brought to the new photos carousel where you can view, and thumbs-up photos that you like. Or, you can add your own. This is the start of our new iphone scanner app Open Graph features that will become the foundation for our community framework going forward. Missing in this beta is the “Report this photo”, which will be a small icon at the top right corner of each photo that allows community enforcement of which photos are inappropriate. Those reported photos will go into a photo moderation tool that will allow us to review and take action as needed.
- We’ve done some adjustment to the location logic in this version. This should be fairly transparent, but let us know if you even notice the updates.
Please take a look and let us know what you like, don’t like, or any bugs you encounter. This is a Beta release so you WILL find bugs, but please report anything you find to me. We want to make sure all buggy scenarios are covered in the final release next week.
WOW! ShopSavvy is rocking Android!
ShopSavvy was one of the first ten apps available on Android so we have always been popular on the platform, but this month has been amazing with over 1.2 million new users joining the iphone scanner app family. Wow.
This summer it hasn’t been unusual to add a million users in a month, but we were adding 500,000 from Android and 500,000 from iOS (not counting WP7 and Symbian). We were wondering why. I suspect it is simply a result of the success of the Android platform – I see Android devices EVERYWHERE.
Thanks Google, you rock! FYI – we have a new version of ShopSavvy on Android due later today (so update and rate). Thanks!
Update on Contact Permission Request
Our new iphone scanner app Wallet feature that is new in Android and iOS asks for access to your contact information. Why you may ask? Simple, we want to make setting up your wallet as simple as possible. Whenever you set up your contact info we auto-complete your email address as you type it (we had to access your contact info to be able to do so) and we also allow you to select your billing and shipping information from your stored contact info.
You can be CERTAIN we don’t access your contact information without your involvement. If you don’t set up your wallet we won’t ever look at your contact info. The way Google describes the permission you might be a bit concerned. I think they say something like, “Malicious developers can use this permission to find your house and kill your dog.” Literally, they make it sound terrible. You can be sure the ONLY reason we are offering this feature is to make signing up for the wallet easy.
The two big updates to the Android client this release are:
- We’ve reset the Welcome Sequence flow so that it’s re-shown to users again; this is to help try to bump user regs.
- We’ve introduced the new Social Photos concept. You can find this by tapping into a product details page, and then tapping on the new “Activity” button in the bottom right. You’ll then be brought to the new photos carousel where you can view, and thumbs-up photos that you like. Or, you can add your own. This is the start of our new iphone scanner app Open Graph features that will become the foundation for our community framework going forward. Missing in this beta is the “Report this photo”, which will be a small icon at the top right corner of each photo that allows community enforcement of which photos are inappropriate. Those reported photos will go into a photo moderation tool that will allow us to review and take action as needed.
- We’ve done some adjustment to the location logic in this version. This should be fairly transparent, but let us know if you even notice the updates.
Please take a look and let us know what you like, don’t like, or any bugs you encounter. This is a Beta release so you WILL find bugs, but please report anything you find to me. We want to make sure all buggy scenarios are covered in the final release next week.
WOW! ShopSavvy is rocking Android!
ShopSavvy was one of the first ten apps available on Android so we have always been popular on the platform, but this month has been amazing with over 1.2 million new users joining the iphone scanner app family. Wow.
This summer it hasn’t been unusual to add a million users in a month, but we were adding 500,000 from Android and 500,000 from iOS (not counting WP7 and Symbian). We were wondering why. I suspect it is simply a result of the success of the Android platform – I see Android devices EVERYWHERE.
Thanks Google, you rock! FYI – we have a new version of ShopSavvy on Android due later today (so update and rate). Thanks!
Update on Contact Permission Request
Our new iphone scanner app Wallet feature that is new in Android and iOS asks for access to your contact information. Why you may ask? Simple, we want to make setting up your wallet as simple as possible. Whenever you set up your contact info we auto-complete your email address as you type it (we had to access your contact info to be able to do so) and we also allow you to select your billing and shipping information from your stored contact info.
You can be CERTAIN we don’t access your contact information without your involvement. If you don’t set up your wallet we won’t ever look at your contact info. The way Google describes the permission you might be a bit concerned. I think they say something like, “Malicious developers can use this permission to find your house and kill your dog.” Literally, they make it sound terrible. You can be sure the ONLY reason we are offering this feature is to make signing up for the wallet easy.
