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[About XDA developers] mrrocketdog:
@svetius , & @ all others involved ; thank you for this app. cant imagine how much of your time and work went into it , but greatly appreciated.:good:
[About XDA developers] MrBlubke:
what I was really saying is, you can't really complain about an app you get for free, since they don't have any obligation whatsoever to you. Quite sure suggestions are welcomed and noted, but complaining because some bug you noticed doesn't get fixed, doesn't really have value imho, it might be better to get other people to join in and +1 your request, this way the team has an insight in the priority of things (for the customer base that is, might still differ from the requirements XDA themselves have for the app)
[About XDA developers] t-ryder:
Oh yes, we can.

And if the app totally sucks, what's the point in making an app then?
[About XDA developers] MrBlubke:
well...

I have 2 questions for you that should answer your question...

1 are you using the app?

2 if not why complain about it? however if you are... that's why the app is there. 😝
[About XDA developers] t-ryder:
I used to have it in use. I gave it a try several times. And then I ... I just lllöaokshfowa09jgeü09g4wqüoigwnBVERÜOPK'"!smartass.

By now I prefer paying a visit to XDA on Bromite.
[About XDA developers] mrrocketdog:
just wanted to say again , good app overall. thank you's to all that worked on it. for me , the more i've used it the more i've become appreciative of it & the no. of hours that must have gone into it to get it this far. js :)

p.s. while i'm here , i can no longer access the thread "[All XDA Members] Requests to Mods and Admins". (always get the message , "oops we broke the matrix") is it maybe something on my side? or anyone have an idea? thanks for any help/suggestions.
[About XDA developers] Thebear j koss:
Nope. I get the same message. Saying I don't have permission to view this thread.
[About XDA developers] woodman:
It is now fixed, the thread is back. It was a mistake done by another moderator.

Thanks for reporting this issue!
[About XDA developers] bbortel93:
Why do I need to use a nearly 6 month old version of the XDA app? Even though this version allows me to get past the splash, I can still only view maybe a dozen threads in any given forum. Labs worked beautifully back in the day.

I'm assuming everyone else has the same issues? Maybe someone has figured a fix?

/endrant
[About XDA developers] tiho5:
I've stopped using the app long time ago... I'm using only the web site on a browser.
[About XDA developers] lukval:
Hello, I am a basic user who mostly reads and occasionally posts / searches in the forums. I wake the application from sleep mode - I do not use android notifications. I have no problem with the application. Thanks for it! :-)
[About XDA developers] bbortel93:
Of course, I am as well. Don't know why my new thread got buried at the end of this one...

One would assume that the official app for Android development would receive some development itself. Anybody know who's at the helm of it?
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
It's possible to see who does what by looking at various parts of the site or reading the thread but don't take that as a nag to go do so, in fact my point here is better served by not knowing. From what I read about the transition of resources which resulted in the new XDA app and what I know of industry in general, those changes may have increased reliance on external resources and decreased the flexibility that we as a community have including that which the developers over the app.

Also, the developers and maintainers at XDA are real people (so I'm told :D) with real lives (so I've heard :D) who as far as I know do not get paid by us.
[About XDA developers] Thebear j koss:
Anyone remember- Blame Alex. from Dirty Unicorn days?
[About XDA developers] dlads:
Any idea what's going on with the categories within each devices section?

Historically it's been divided into sub sections.

Q+A

Guides

Themes

Development

But now it's just all in one, it looks horrible.

Is that the way it's going to stay?
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Maybe this post by @sd_shadow answers your question?

https://xdaforums.com/t/index-xda-2021-how-to-navigate-the-new-site-layout.4197775/post-84039157
[About XDA developers] mrrocketdog:
ok , this may be a noob or obvious question but ; in the xda app is there a way to see who i'm following and who (if anyone) is following me?

i think i've gone thru all the settings but maybe not.

thanks for any help.:good:
[About XDA developers] Thebear j koss:
Hit your profile pic at bottom. Then hit profile pic on top. Hit view profile. Slide tab to the right until you see about. see pic attached. Scroll down
[About XDA developers] mrrocketdog:
wow @Thebear j koss , that's great ty ty ty. and thank you for the example.:good:
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Today, for the second time ever in 12 years here I shared a link to recent posts with a personal or professional contact. The link worked for several hours but by the time email was sent and read the link merely yielded ".. blah blah broke matrix blah..., That error message isn't so adorable when it is a newcomer's introduction to XDA. "hello and welcome to the broken matrix". There is another way to generate a link which may be more stable (less context sensitive?) but then whey even generate the one that goes bad? Rhetorical!

Food for thought and I hope motivation for improvements.
[About XDA developers] Philnicolls89:
About a week ago I was logged out of the app, now I can no longer log back in, only continue as guest.

I've tried clearing data/cache, deleting and reinstalling the app but nothing works. When I click on sign on or even register new account the buttons do nothing. All I can do is view the forum as guest.

The problem only started about a week ago. Has anyone else experienced problems with the app recently?
[About XDA developers] It_ler:
Working fine here. You have to authenticate via "authorize" 🤷‍♂️
[About XDA developers] IamTheBRAVE:
I had a similar problem too. No fix. As a workaround i used "open in browser" to access the website view and log in there so i can view my threads. Or just use the browser.

The issue solved itself later. don't know how.
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Regarding the need to login and possible issues with it: there had recenlt been a period of maintenance after which is not surprising to have been booted. As to the login process, it has been my experience that the XDA app hands authorization off to a local browser which must login and then which hands the authorization back to the XDA app. If you have previously logged in to XDA in the default browser on the Android device (which should be the one called up by the authorization) things tend to go smoother... in my experience.
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Derp-licate
[About XDA developers] Philnicolls89:
Thanks @IamTheBRAVE & @IronTechmonkey for the advice. I figured it out and it was dumb user error! 😅😅😅

I use Avast mobile security which is 'technically' my default browser as it scans links when clicked briefly before opening in Chrome.

For some reason it was not allowing me to proceed to the authorize screen, and that's why it seemed as if the login and register buttons weren't working at all.
[About XDA developers] IamTheBRAVE:
My problem might have a different origin (don't use avast) but the same reason (xda app can't communicate with browser to authenticate) thanks for the tip👍
[About XDA developers] DroidFire:
Anyone heard any news on whether there's ever gonna be an update to fix the XDA app or better yet an entirely new one?

Obviously everyone is aware of the fact the current XDA app is and has been a complete and total disaster since the day it was very first released in its beta ever worked properly since, an now completely unusable. Still makes absolutely no sense to me why they made the decision to just completely abandon the original "XDA Labs" app which was great. I understand the XDA Developers website was being completely rebuilt from the ground up at the same time the current XDA aosbut still doesn't explain why you'd abandon what was at the very least a very solid base for which a could of been a dimple uild the new app off instead of the unusable mess they decided to create and release. I'm a long time user and big fan of the XDA forums and really hope to one day see again some sort of an XDA Forums app that is usable and has some actual decent functionality like "XDA Labs" did. Hopefully this idea hasn't been completely given up on, if anyone has any knowledge on this please let me know, thanks ....🤔💩😕
[About XDA developers] Thebear j koss:
Developer of xda labs app stopped development on it. Nothing to do with XDA. XDA switched forum platforms, so app had to be completely rebuilt in the new platform. I don't have any more issues since they got rid of the awful ads that plagued the app originally. I don't hear or see many complaints anymore as the app functions fine, although with a search hiccup or 2. Most of the gripes are people preferred the Labs app which like I said was dropped by the Dev (not xda) and it would have needed to be changed to this platform anyway for it to work which basically means it would be exactly this app. I used Tapatalk for over 10+ years, basically from the 1st tapatalk app and because xda changed it's forum platform it stopped working on there as well. If the app is not your thing, you can always use web version and add a shortcut directly to that, or better yet, since this a development forum, one can learn to build and design their own app.
[About XDA developers] orb3000:
Waiting exited the next update of XDA app!
[About XDA developers] AlanzJazz:
Seems OK,

I'm a new user & just finding my way!

Alan
[About XDA developers] orb3000:
Welcome to XDA!

Hopefully soon we will have an update
[About XDA developers] svendsvin:
Don't know where else to ask so I try here. Can I change time setting from am/pm to 24 hours on the webpage?
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Thanks for asking, and I'm very sorry to say negative, you can't. Since the transition to Xenforo, this is no longer implemented. And as a non-US-American I'm also not used at all to am/pm and therefore requested such a feature many moons ago but it's obviously not possible to implement that unless somebody else develops an add-on for Xenforo.
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Regarding am/pm vs 24 hour clock, even as someone who is accustomed to the am/pm system, there are many ways in which I prefer 24 hour clock for forums and Tech work, especially when doing time-related comparisons, and even more so when comparing across time zones. Also IMO 24-hour clock is more intuitive for comparisons between GMT 0 vs current local time.

While I'm here, and on another topic: has anyone else noticed recent changes in behavior of text selection and zooming in the app? At some time in the past few weeks some pages seems to have gained the ability to zoom, during which parts of the page remain with their original word wrapping while other parts are not wrapped. Additionally the selection of text within a post being created or edited seems to have gotten easier, in particular long press to select individual word now functions reliably which it did not in the past. This could be due to changes in any of several things in the OS (webview?) but I've seen it on two devices and so was wondering if this has anything to do with the last round of maintenance on the back end.
[About XDA developers] eriol1:
Does this help us?

https://xenforo.com/community/threa...-users-choose-12-hour-or-24-hour-clock.25762/

It's old, but maybe still relevant?

It says clock format is linked to the language, so a new language preference could be created by the forum admins (say "English 24h clock" for example) which would allow users to select a clock format.

That being said, I tried to find the language preference on the website and didn't find anything. Am I just being stupid not finding it or is there no language selection available?
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Thanks very much for further digging into this but it's not only beyond my paygrade. Moderators have no insight how the website is technically set up. So far I've never seen any possibility to set a preferred language, and if I correctly remember that wasn't the case under vBulletin either.

Maybe @MikeChannon has more information or knows what the backroom webgurus are doing?
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
Well for simplicity and server load etc we only have English (US) installed.

I can suggest English (UK) as an addition which might give us alternative time formats.

However, this is far from a promise that our technical guys will approve such an addition... we do have to be careful not to overload things here, I already see some slowness in the servers from time to time.

Mike
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
For unread threads App is going to first page of thread instead of last and is not flagging it as read (un- bolded). The threads which should be flagged as read in the app are still flagged as unread in a desktop web browsers on PC as well as in app. Unread threads are properly flagged as read when viewed in web browser and that flag is visible in app, App is seeing the read/unread state of threads as set by web browser but unable to set that state or auto navigate. Logging out and back in does not fix. Reproduced on 3 rooted/unrooted android 10/11 devices.

[EDIT] "Report issue" from within app does not work either, Don't know if that is related or not.

[EDIT2] If you enter the thread and scroll to the bottom while hunting for the navigation buttons and then navigate to and read last post, then the thread is make as read.

I try to be gracious, really I do, but a malicious intentional plan to make simple thread viewing a mess could not be much more effective than this.
[About XDA developers] IamTheBRAVE:
+1 on this. Also a couple of watched threads not in my watched forums list (Adaway, Magisk and Spam) are never showing up in my alerts page until i view the last post then next time they show up once then not again 'till i navigate to them again.

Edit: in screen record you can see my alert page is empty (all read) while some threads are still marked unread in watching tab. I need to open them from there to receive the next and only alert from them.
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
There may be multiple things going on today. To your point, issues with alerts which have been going on for some time; I often don't see them until I refresh the page.

Also, a problem perhaps indexing the threads for the app. That's probably something that can be addressed but it brings up another issue, the absurdity of navigation buttons only in a small area sort of but not exactly at the bottom of the page, a place it takes a good degree of scrolling and focus to find on the page. If there were navigation buttons at the top, visible without any scrolling, working around these problems with miss-flagged threads would be much easier.

So... this question: has anyone ever presented a rationale for the notably inconvenient location of the thread navigation buttons? Although these things may be part of a canned interface which XDA must use, at some point a decision to do that with navigation buttons was made. Since that decision does not seem to benefit developers or readers of the threads in any way I'm just curious specifically why it was made and can it be changed?
[About XDA developers] fr_jason:
SOLUTION/FIX;
[About XDA developers] ShaDisNX255:
What ever happened to constructive criticism

This just looks like a 10 year old wrote it

:/
[About XDA developers] fr_jason:
Go have a look at the apps reviews on the Play Store, even better, have a scroll through the pages before in this thread.

While you're looking, make a mental note of the constructive criticism you mention, and you'll see it goes back to 2020.

Either way, it's undeniable the app is utter ****.
[About XDA developers] shinobisoft:
This thread is intended for legitimate bugs, not your personal dislikes. If you dislike the app so much there is a solution... Stop using it and use the web interface via your favorite browser. For a majority of us, this app works just fine as is.
[About XDA developers] ShaDisNX255:
Your logic is kind of blowing my mind right now.

It's like saying, there are murderers and thieves by the thousands out in the world, so that means I can do it too.

I'm sorry but I just don't agree.

Nothing in your "review" lists any problem with the app you just say that you personally have a problem logging in from a browser.

This isn't really a "bug"

Then you just go on a wild rant which kind of honestly is confusing to say the least.

And not only that, you then just post the screenshot of it in this thread but I guess that's understandable (?)
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Well, this thread's title does say "let us know what you think" which opens the feedback beyond the bug reporting many of us were accutomed to (and apparently appreciated :)) in the previous iteration of the app, but I agree with you in principle.

Indeed. Even as an occasional harsh critic of the app I try to make the criticism constructive and acknowledge some of the larger unavoidable circumstances regarding the switch to the new app.
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Hey guys!

About the xda app, here is what a representative of xda replied to the moderation team internally when we told them we had concerns about the future of the app (among other topics):

"The truth is the app development team was an outside source that we worked with, and they were never able to deliver on a bug-free experience. If we focus on an app in the future, I'd assume that we would come up with a different solution. For now, <... > we are aware of the bugs, but further updates will not be made to the app. Chances are we will have something better in the future."

Then, we told them we'd love to have an in-house development of the app, like it used to be the case with xda labs, they replied this:

"I am 100% on board with this. I think XDA Labs was the best mobile app we ever got and we need to go back to a solution like that. <... > We are working on sorting out so many things behind the scenes, and as soon as we can make the forums a priority again, I will pitch this idea to the new leadership."

The" new leadership" being Valnet Inc.

I am also very disappointed by the xda app, I don't use it except for push notifications.

So I guess we just need to be patient...
[About XDA developers] fr_jason:
Thank you for this mate!
[About XDA developers] bbortel93:
The app has actually started working perfectly for me again, for the first time in at least a year.
[About XDA developers] orb3000:
Hopefully we can see some update to XDA app soon!
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Maybe so but "hope" has not been an effective workaround to the problems that the app has with the core and requisite functionality of such forums. Perhaps if the brand name of the app (and only the app) was changed to Xenforo then they could inherit the bad name it is earning and might go about providing resources for improvement. After all, at their website Xenforo uses XDA in a banner bragging about Xenforo's achievements. I try to be more gracious than this but that is difficult especially after having seen that the name which I associate with a degradation of the XDA app's functionality is using the XDA brand to sell it's own brand.
[About XDA developers] Techno_Digger:
U r right but my device mya-l10 Chinese version doesn't support Google play. I'm new here, plz guide me what can I do about it? It's really frustrating.😤😣
[About XDA developers] joeldf:
This app has been working fine for a while, but since roughly a few days ago, it no longer shows any articles in the articles tab. Just says "no articles found".

Is that just me? Or do I need to reset the app?
[About XDA developers] MoneyNotEnough:
Me too, I've since regressed to using the standalone app feature of chrome browser. Which is not ideal as I had to contend with the damned security checks everytime.
[About XDA developers] BillGoss:
This might be the reason: https://www.xda-developers.com/welcome-to-the-new-xda/
[About XDA developers] Lz3807775t:
Yup I'm having the same problem
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
Yea, due to the recent portal platform update I'd say.

I'll flag this with the ones in charge :)
[About XDA developers] Lz3807775t:
Thank you
[About XDA developers] Lz3807775t:
Just a update it's still not working
[About XDA developers] orb3000:
This app needs an urgent upgrade so we can Mod from it!

Cheers
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
I replied to you at a different location.
[About XDA developers] scoobyjenkins:
I noticed that the UI has changed slightly recently and I like that when I've read a watched thread it's no longer highlighted with a dot in the list (previously I had to refresh the list to see the highlight go away).

In each watched thread there used to be a button to jump to last read, which was handy when it didn't automatically load to that place. That button seems to have gone and it does generally automatically load to the last page read but not the last post, it goes to the top of the last page read.

Not a big deal but may be worth noting.
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Hi to all,

As far as the moderation team knows, the xda app has stopped being developed, it's not going to be updated / improved, not for the foreseeableable future from what we know.

You'd better just use the Website in mobile view if you don't want to be disappointed by bugs or missing buttons, etc..

We are the first sorry and frustrated about this situation. We really hope a great xda app will come someday.

We think it's better to inform you all so that you don't continue to post bug reports and feature requests for nothing...

That being said, serious technical issues on the app will still be looked into if you report them here.

Thanks.
[About XDA developers] Thebear j koss:
That is truly sad that XDA won't have an actual app. Is this truly how far android development has fallen, that nobody wants to create and maintain an app that is for all intensive purposes, the starting point for android development? That is just awful.
[About XDA developers] woodman:
I agree, this is sad but to make things clear, this is not the end. A representative of Valnet (Valnet being the new owner of xda) told us:

"As we're all unfortunately aware, there aren't any immediate plans or time/financial resources earmarked to new forum-related ventures, such as revitalizing the mobile app..."

But he added this:

"... Needless to say, I'll keep advocating for this and follow up if and when I'm able to make any headway..."

We will make sure to let you all know of course.
[About XDA developers] Lz3807775t:
So does this mean they won't fix the problem with the app having no article to read from XDA 😤🤔
[About XDA developers] woodman:
No, this issue will be looked into. It has been reported to the team who developed the app and such technical issues should be handled.
[About XDA developers] Lz3807775t:
Ok thanks for your response 👍
[About XDA developers] orb3000:
I really wonder... We are in a dev oriented forum, the pure basis of XDA are to dev, mod and share just for the pure pleassure!

I can understand the new big boss is not interested in put resoruces on the app for now, and I am.sure this can change in the future!

But....Where is the XDA spirit!?

Devs and mods should be already involved, not for money, for the pure pleassure to help XDA, as XDA has helped us so much to all in here.

I refuse to beleive that nobody, not a single dev on XDA is not willing to jump in and help.

This post is written as a normal XDA user, very dissatisfied about our app and the lack of interest of anyone, which ironically, XDA app should be the best super never beaten fast, amazing app, better than any other!

We are XDA!
[About XDA developers] Lz3807775t:
I hope it still can be 👍📱💿⛑️