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[About XDA developers] Thebear j koss:
A few issues with this, although I do agree in sentiment. 1. XDA could never make up it's mind on what forum platform to use. At it's heyday it was involved thru the Tapatalk forums, but it always had an identity crises. Should it have it's own standalone app? Should it just be a cog in the wheel of a large forums app? 2. When someone does step up and try to make an app, they get no say in their work. Great example was the XDA Labs app which although had many issues, was basically shut down because the forum server had changed and the app needed a complete rebuild which after countless hours of work, the dev had 0 input into the major change and was all but forced to just abandon his work. 3. Most devs share work out of their pure love of android and the community, without pay and eating up a ton of their free time. Then with uncertainty of how the higher ups will utilize the app and for how long, devs don't want to waste their time building an app that more than likely will wind up being a paid app or worse yet plagued with ads. 4. Development by any small, independent dev or devs can only last as long as they can support it. 1 golden rule of any development shared on XDA has always been real life comes 1st. Family, work, private life precedes all else and that includes XDA. Nobody knows what the future holds. Which brings me to my last point, 5. Entitled user base on XDA and everywhere in Android has exploded. Devs just get fed up over time dealing with demanding users who spend a 1$ on an app and think it means they have a lifetime subscription of updates and just being an a$$. There used to be donations given in support of the developer or you bought an app to show appreciation not so they fulfilled your every expectation. It's definitely sad to see XDA not have an app that is developed an supported, what's really sad are these reasons why there isn't.
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
I think I can clearly state that this is not true. I know at least one developer who's ready and would like to carry the app further. As I understood as a non-developer there's only one but major problem: He'd require the API from the former developer. Or something similar, excuse me if I explained it wrong what I most likely did; no idea about coding.

And as I also believe to have understood: For the sake of that developer, the app could only become an unofficial one to avoid any liability issues.
[About XDA developers] orb3000:
Official or unofficial lets go for it!

There are so many devs in XDA!

I can imagine a colaboration between many devs in order to create the best app ever!

Hope not only 1 dev is interested in help XDA
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Absolutely concur. But whoever does will require the API first. But I know that somebody pinged the management this morning (my local time) in this respect.
[About XDA developers] Thebear j koss:
I looked into this version of the XDA app and I don't like web based apps. I always liked that XDA/Tapatalk app from ics/jellybean days.
[About XDA developers] Robbo.5000:
It is starting to look like we have an unfortunate truth in that the new owners only care about monetizing the xda name, by pushing out as many 'tech articles' as possible.

It would seem that they have no care for what xda was, i.e. the premier Android development forum and just wish to piggyback it's good name to push a tech news site in which to show as many ads as possible.

It is starting to look like we need to get as many xda forum members to jump ship and create a new xda (in spirit anyway) forum.

Who knows, maybe we could persuade the new owners to allow the existing forum content to be migrated to a new platform. I'm sure they would love to be able to eject the forum, so that they could save money maintaining it and devote more energy to further monetizing the news and articles side of things.

Although in reality how successful would a new xda forum be in modern times. Forums seem to be a dying breed today, with so many other alternatives around. Just look at how many ROM/app developers now only post on xda when they release updates, but will only engage with the users on Telegram.
[About XDA developers] guitardoc64:
I've watched this forum grow since I joined back in 2007. Over the years it grew from it's windows mobile users to Android. The emphasis has always been on development. Like many, I converted to Android and found a lot of information. The Advent of Tapatalk let me access the forums on my phone. Then Labs came out and I switched to it. The idea of the forum users developing the app was really in the spirit of what this forum is. Then the migration to the new format and this app is yet another step in change. I'd still like to see something more like Labs from this. There's too many gifted devs here that could do so much more. This app is functional, but cumbersome, and the bugs don't get fixed promptly. But it does the job, and I guess that's what we should expect.
[About XDA developers] wonsky21:
Is this app even working now? I can't run it since like a week, it stops on splashscreen...
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
Working for me.

Installing from Google Play?

Current version is 2.15.41

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xda.labs.play
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
This post relates to the XDA app by dint of the fact that, in the XDA app was it became wildly inconvenient to do the most basic things such as navigate through posts and edit posts that I abandoned the app several months ago out of necessity (I lasted longer than many other people). Now in my only alternative, web browser, at the top of both mobile and desktop browsers we have a perpetual advertising banner taking up over 10% of screen real estate across the whole width of the screen and a failure to be brought to the newest post has that advertising banner staring at us reminding of the degradation of resources.

This obviously doesn't make sense within XDA's goal of maintaining an accessible and well-organized forum (although XDA may not have much choice) but it also doesn't make sense from the advertisers point of view. Off topic words forced into people's eyes with such an overblown use of display space, and associated with a failure to be brought to the part of the thread to which you expect to be brought, which in turn leaves the intrusive advertising in plain view instead of the expected content = not well received; advertised product inherits blame.

It's as if the advertisers of those products or the people who chose to manage the advertising that way specifically want angry and misled people to be seeking that product.

Perhaps that advertising banner has been there for some time but now that the site is not going to the desired post the advertisements visibility is much greater, and any name in there will be seen (at least by me) as something intrusive and to be avoided.

How hard must it be to navigate and to search and to edit?
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
More details regarding ad banner here ,

[EDIT] link deleted because it could not be seen by all. I'll share that information in a more appropriate place later.

shared so people might be watchful for instances where we are not scrolled to newest post.
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Thanks, I've deleted the link from that post and will find a better place to share that information. Thanks again the explanation. The issue is not some runaway advertising but rather a combination of factors which make it more intrusive.
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Hi :)

I have just notified our User Experience Admin about your post.

Have a good day!
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Greetings! :) Thanks for forwarding that along. FWIW, I'm now being sent to the last page or to new posts as expected which in turn makes the advertisement less intrusive. Part of what was occurring was a perception of intrusiveness caused by staying at the top of the page. That being said personally I find ads parallel to desired content more tolerable than ads used as wedges or spacers which distance us from the content. Thanks again.
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Regarding the combination of top banner advertisement and failure to be brought to newest post: The advertisement is no longer present at the top of the page. Be-still my heart!
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Heartbroken again, a new Ad at the top of the page. At least getting to last post and scrolling it off the page minimize its presence but not enough for me not to exclude the advertised item from any purchasing.
[About XDA developers] woodman:
I dropped the current xda app a while ago already... No interest in it at all and it will no longer be improved anyway AFAIK and even if it would, its techno and spirit are a no-go for me. A pity it went that route during the transition from vBulletin to XenForo... I think XDA owners had no choice.

My best days on xda were unquestionably when I was working on XDA Labs, the previous great (but not that perfect) xda app... I miss those days honestly. I sincerely hope that one day a real, good and interesting forum app will see the light of day. I'm not sure it's anytime soon but hey, I'm still hoping.
[About XDA developers] Releece:
Why don't we set up one of the many decentralized social media being developed as an aside for XDA. It will probably not attract the gross of users, but those that do come will be of the best quality. And the decentralized nature makes it so that the devs can do whatever they want, make forks etc. :D

And if evermore users get annoyed by wild ads appearing everywhere, that will drive more users to the alternative!

And even if the owners don't care enough to migrate the data, can't we just make a scraper that gets all content migrated that is of the past year + all popular threads or sth?

Would the owners make a problem of that due to intellectual property rights or do they not give a sh*t about the forum content?
[About XDA developers] guitardoc64:
I just miss XDA labs. It worked. Half the time I have to login just to make the current app work.
[About XDA developers] Thebear j koss:
The old XDA on the real old Tapatalk app was the best. 2012-2014 days. Before Tapatalk became a huge nightmare of an app. Issue I find with the newer apps, is they cram too much crap into them. A simple vertical scroll app that just shows favorite threads, devices, forums, and displays newest news and devices but keeping it as basic as possible. No crazy intros, instructions on how swiping works everytime you open the app, or other nonsense that I disable immediately. Just keep it simple.
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Thanks for the feedback. Sorry but I can't reply to this, it is beyond my responsabilities.

The only thing I can say is I tried my best to spark renewal regarding an official or unofficial GOOD xda app, I tried just before the transition from vBulletin to XenForo (a bit after the end of XDA Labs) and also after the transition....but no luck so far. As I said previously, I'm still hoping something will happen, if it's the case, it would take time anyways... Possibly Valnet (the owners) won't give more love to an app but for now no one can tell...
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Must have effective search function.

Must have effective search function.

Must have effective search function.

The community of people at XDA is holding the forums together better than I would have expected and is doing so without many of the features we once had. The XDA App Store was obviously a big loss, and we've seen other features of well-developed forums disappear. It would be nice if some of those things were restored and if we had a more robust app but there are some problems which are more fundamental and which our hosts should be able to address without much expenditure of resources.

In particular I am talking about the absence of an effective search function. The forums are difficult enough to navigate because of the limitations of the app and the woefully inadequate and non-user-friendly text edit boxes, but even that stuff does not matter as much as an effective search function.

I'm going to hammer that nail again. Here we are in a forum where searching for answers is one of the most common things any of us do whether seeking answers for ourselves or trying to help others or trying to track bugs, yet we do not have an effective search feature. My presence here has been reduced largely from detailed bug reporting to reference librarian on behalf of others within an inscrutable system. This is not because of those big features we lost, this is because of the basic features we lack.

Apologies for landing so hard but...Must have effective search function.
[About XDA developers] Thebear j koss:
Nobody uses the search function... Or reads the OP. Just jump to newest post and hope for the best. Then point blame when you have a 1000$ brick. At least that's what I see happening everywhere.
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
I can't believe I'm saying this but I actually see some small hope. Some people actually seem to try to use it and for those that don't, they would be more willing to use one if an effective search feature existed.
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Oh, I can promsise I do both very often. But I'm not using the app... As nearly all of us, I loved to use XDA Labs and Tapatalk but the current app is useless at least for my purposes. And from what I know I doubt that the site owners will invest any money into the app. My personal conclusion: Terminate my attempts to use the app and do not complain 'cause it's wasted time.
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
True that. Browsers have always been my 1st choice and I endured the app on mobile devices until a few months ago but now use browsers on PCs and android devices.

As to the search problem, just to be clear: the search glitch is not app specific issue as it occurs in android and desktop browsers as well.
[About XDA developers] guitardoc64:
The current app is only barely functional. I don't have any positive comments to add. I'm ready to not have to login every few days. The current app is more frustration than function.
[About XDA developers] tiho5:
Only using browser. App isn't satisfactory. I am sorry.
[About XDA developers] Retrial:
Hey,

Since the migration to new URL I am not able to login in the app. It redirects and open up the browser to login but when I return to app I am not logged in, only in browser.

Does anyone else encounter this? Anyone from the xda team still messing with that app? 😝

I was really used to the app for notifications and quick replies while I am not in PC. (which is a lot of hours)
[About XDA developers] Thebear j koss:
Same. I think this is another abandoned XDA app. Lol
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
Yep, this has been flagged with those that need to know. I'm sure it'll be resolved soon.
[About XDA developers] Nebrassy:
Same here but somehow I'm still getting notifications
[About XDA developers] Retrial:
yeap, I tried to clear cache data of the app to see if that fix the issue with the login, now rip even notifications 😝

Hopefully it will get fixed soon as the_scotsman said above 🤞
[About XDA developers] dr.ketan:
ReLab already have github request for new migrated domain

I grab from github, you can use it with new migrated domain.

Attached here
[About XDA developers] badabing2003:
I know it's not related to the app, but another broken item is the email notifications, I'm not receiving any, even after unwatch, watch

I'm not sure if there is a separate thread for this.
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
@theimpulson Sir, I guess above might be for you and your

[App][5.0+] ReLabs - Unofficial XDA Client

* Disclaimer * I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards, thermonuclear war, * or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please do some research * if you have any concerns about features included in this app * before...

xdaforums.com
[About XDA developers] dr.ketan:
@Oswald Boelcke

I have made reverse engineering with latest XDA app and updated new domain as well fixed a important known bug (I have also reported earlier), the issue about "New Post" not showing even if you select it from settings. This "New Posts" (Participated tab on website) is really very handy tool to track thread we have participated, For this bug I forced to use old version but today I digg it and got it fixed. Only thing is I am not sure if it have broken notification or not.

Can you ask concern authority to share this modded apk meanwhile official version doesn't get fix/updated? I am sure many users are still using XDA official app. Obviously it is re-signed so needed to fresh install (Won't update on existing app)

Let me know if it is fine to share, No issue if it is not permissiable, I can understand.

Regards

Dr.Ketan
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Sir, I've no hands on that at all. Sorry for that.

Maybe @willverduzco, @MikeChannon or @the_scotsman are able to provide a satisfactory answer?

Regards

Oswald Boelcke
[About XDA developers] dr.ketan:
Thanks for info. Hope someone from mentioned directs accordingly.
[About XDA developers] dr.ketan:
Indeed I have got from pull request by @theimpulson sir only!
[About XDA developers] willverduzco:
Let's hold off on publicly sharing for the time being, while I work with others in management to determine the future of this app -- especially in light of how well native PWA functionality works now that I have enabled it.

Obviously, however, what you choose to send to users privately is entirely your prerogative.
[About XDA developers] dr.ketan:
Thank you very much sir for inputs.
[About XDA developers] bobby janow:
I don't know where to post this so move it if needed. But on the new login xdaforums.com I cannot stay logged in to the app. The tabs don't make sense either. The only way to get here is on the computer and that's not available most of the day to me. What can I do or undo.
[About XDA developers] Sysop_PNW:
Does anyone know when the XDA app will be updated. Since they recently migrated everything to the new website the app does work... but it's limited and needs updating.
[About XDA developers] Whiskey103:
But then again, isn't that what developers do on xda , fix stuff quickly until the the slackers catch up? 😂😜😁
[About XDA developers] pndwal:
Came here to see what's going on because it's hard to simply be notified of unread responses to posts or that a thread has unread posts now... I hope these simple functions can be restored quickly because I simply can't manually check all threads I participate in in a timely manner currently...

Anyway, good to see that some here are on some of the issues...

Previously I used browser to search threads etc because searching, while difficult and rather non-intuitive, was usable at least unlike in-app... However In the browser the notifications I use never worked properly so I'd gotten used to switching between app and browser depending on the need...

Now, whether with app or browser, if preference page is altered, ✅s in check boxes are immediately lost despite message saying your changes have been saved, notifications, such as for unread responses to posts or a thread having unread posts, still don't work in browser and are lost in the app...

Further, with latest migration I can log into app, but it only acts as a client for web based pages now it seems; I really hope this is not an intentional change... Also I must log in every time; Only browser retains login...

I'm guessing that these are likely only configuration issues since migration... If the app can be restored it would also be great to see longstanding search function issues etc addressed also...

Hope this input helps (and its not intended to be a criticism)... Thanks everyone who's working on improved XDA! 👍

PS. ReLabs from @dr.ketan link (with updated domains) is working for me, but notifications are way to limited... 🙃 PW
[About XDA developers] pndwal:
... Also, I see that posts in this thread between March and December have been lost. 😬

Has there been collateral damage (lost posts/information) elsewhere as a result of this migration?... Does anyone know if stuff will/can be restored?... PW
[About XDA developers] dr.ketan:
I have reported nearly two years ago that New Posts (similar to Participated tab on website) is really handy way to track all the thread we have participated because not everyone QUOTE you. This bug was existing since 2 yrs and unfortunately app never get updated after this and for this reason only I was using old version of app

Y'day while fixing migration issue, dig it bitter and fixed participated/New Posts tab

Only issue remained is can't get notification, yet we can see alert on opening of app

Unfortunately can't share it publicly as per suggested by mods
[About XDA developers] pndwal:
Yes, saw that and it would be very useful...

Would much appreciate it as a stop-gap if you could send it to me in a private message per:

however... 😛 PW
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Please could someone describe how we are now supposed to search the thread we are presently in (while using desktop web browsers) or if this is something in the process of being rectified post-migration?
[About XDA developers] badabing2003:
@pndwal , just like you I feel handicapped without the app and no more email notifications either, I'm not able to be on top of things and feel that I'm missing posts that I should tend to.

The reLabs app suggested by @dr.ketan although it works on a phone (in a limitted form), it just shows a blank page on a tablet (after authorizing login). I would love to get a fixed app if higher powers allow.

It's ironic that XDA Developer's App is not open sourced.
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
What did you try to do?

In-thread search works for me:

Spoiler content hidden.
[About XDA developers] It_ler:
Although it might be off-topic in this thread, you can use the "Search..." at the top, click on the magnifying glas and select "This thread" in the first selection box ("Everywhere" is the pre-selected default option).

See attached screenshot.
[About XDA developers] pndwal:
I wanna thank @dr.ketan for reversed and updated XDA app with new domain and 'New Posts' bug fix (and for obliging me with it)...

I've been using it for some hours and it's as good as before (if better) warts and all!... 😋

If he can reverse, fix and update it so quickly, I'm sure it won't take long for Devs with source code to get it sorted!... 😬

... Two happy users ATM anyway! 😁 PW

PS Using it to send this... and get notifications...
[About XDA developers] pndwal:
Yup... But not any more... see above...

That sort of works on my tablet, but it's limited...

mmm... Already fixed by reversing! 🙃 PW
[About XDA developers] Lz3807775t:
This migration has just messed up everything with the app , it really does not work since the change , it keeps me logged out all the time . But I do get notifications
[About XDA developers] samhhmobil:
Since some days, the app doesn't work anymore.

And even if someone wrote about a "reversed" new version of the app, this "new" version is not available anywhere.

Sigh...

samhhmobil
[About XDA developers] shinobisoft:
The reversed app was never shared, that's why no link available. However, Check out this post on XDA forum:

https://xdaforums.com/t/app-5-0-relabs-unofficial-xda-client.4623759/post-88961009

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[About XDA developers] samhhmobil:
Thank you, I know about that alternative app. (And yes, since today there is that app updated to the new forums-URL).

Nevertheless that app is in very early alpha state and missing many details, behaviour and include some bugs.

But maybe that's the future as an app, if this XDA-app is not maintained anymore (not one update anymore since nearly two years, and it's closed source)?

Thanks again for that link, maybe it's useful for someone here.

samhhmobil
[About XDA developers] dr.ketan:
And now two users might be happier seeing this. :love:

Yes, Notification finally fixed.
[About XDA developers] Clasimodo:
And where can I download that, please? I can't find it.

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