Flagging is an ILX app for Android (in beta)

this thing has told me it's posted a couple times, then didn't actually. this was after a crash. i hit ok w/o sending a report. i'm a bad beta participant.

When you go to the settings page, what version do you see at the bottom? There are a couple people running the original broken version.

1.4

WRONG ANSWER

What device / Android version?

galaxy s6, android 6.0.1

looks like i'm behind the times too (galaxy a3, 6.0.1)

i'm also on 1.4 - s7, 6.0.1

1.4 on 7.1.1

Nexus 5x

Sometimes crashing on startup.

Constantly getting the 'Flagging has stopped' / 'Flagging keeps stopping' if I haven't used it for more than about half an hour and open it again.

Galaxy 5x / 7.1.1

I think I have that one figured out. Update coming hopefully tomorrow.

can I just say thanks! Has made ILX usable on my phone finally.

um, this is interesting. Navigation needs work, but hey..

yeah don't let my whining sway you, this is awesome, could change the way i interact with the site.

feature request: text search/find in page across all screens

Request: little dot or bar down the side that moves so you can see how far you've scrolled

Just pushed an update that should fix some bugs (don't worry, not all of them.) You might experience some weirdness the first time you connect to a server, if so is because app moved to https.

Mark, tell me your navigation ideas.

Cool, thanks Lukas! Nice new icon too :)

maybe after bookmarking a message the app should send you back to bookmarks?

Yeah, that's a good one.

feature request: if you're already on the New Answers page and scrolled down, tapping the New Answers tab insta-scrolls you up to the top - unless i missed it there's currently no quick way to scroll up to the top / refresh if you're scrolled way down the list.

+1 for adding that to every android app ever
biggest thing i miss from ios

I've had some issues with posts not appearing so let's see if this works.

Things are going to be quiet for a while, but if anyone has a serious problem - like say if you can reliably reproduce an issue with posting - give a shout and I'll try to fix.

Bump in browser so I can see thread in app

test on first public beta of android O, seems ok

setting and using bookmarks too

i had to stop using this because if you try to post and someone post before you lose everything you just wrote .

Yeah, the same thing happens to me every time.

It's sad, I'd be willing to pay money for this app if it, 1) didn't lose your posts every time you start writing one and someone else posts before you (I don't think this was problem before, so maybe the recent ILX code change has caused it?), 2) the search function was included, and 3) there was a way to remove bookmarks. Other than that, it works perfectly.

Oh, sorry, I just realised there is a way to remove bookmarks! Scratch that from the list then.

In retrospect, having someone who generally lurks write this app was going to lead to some oversights. I'll post here when the crosspost problem is fixed.

I would like search too but unfortunately it's not coming in the next couple months.

i like it a lot! i use it a lot too. i hadn't noticed the xpost problem i guess

is there a way to sort out the bookmark variance between the app and web? and/or view full list of bookmarks, not just those that are updated?

how do you remove bookmarks in the app?

long click on the one you want to remove, popup appears

lukas, thanks so much for making this! It is clean, simple and FAST: the ILX spirit in a nutshell.

If you are still looking for feedback, I would second most of the notes already made, and add only that being able to view my full Bookmarks page (in tandem with having some kind of Control-F analogue) would be excellent (I had to switch to browser to find this thread and post this), that some stylesheet customizability would be great (mainly though I just want quoted text to show up in a shaded box - it's a little too easy to miss the thin vertical line next to the text), and that something like the 'three years pass...' dividers for dormant threads would be good so you have to use less of your brain to catch where the current revive begins. But imho this is a really solid base, and probably more than 80 percent of the way to completely providing the ilx experience in the palm of my hand! Bravo.

I still want to use it but can't figure out how to get it sync with my browser sessions

cosign casino's post, it's a great app

hi, new version up that detects crossposts and saves drafts.

more to come, slowly.

Thanks, Lukas!

Moodles, what's happening? When you first logged into the app, did you see all your bookmarks, it's just that updates don't sync? Or did you not see your bookmarks?

If I open the app, i see my bookmarks come up correctly, but then if I update them, nothing carries over to my browser

test

^

I was able to successfully post, maybe I need to play with it more

woo!

another minor thought: maybe a little dot on the right hand side, or horizontal 'progress bar' tucked into the thread title bar, to indicate how close you are to the bottom of the thread?

I can confirm the bookmarks-not-carrying-over issue - if it helps, it seems to only be an issue for switching to browser on this same device. On my desktop, all bookmarks are correctly updated. So maybe it's actually an issue with how Android or the Chrome app are handling the browser cache?

also a feature for opening ilxor thread links in-app instead of launching browser?

More misc ideas/notes (emphatically not demands - I am using the shit out of this app so in general count me as satisfied!):

* some shortcut function that loads the whole thread and puts you at the top would be real handy. I'm using this a lot on the subway when I kinda just want to load up a meaty thread for a 'longform' read, so scrolling up and whacking the load-more button repeatedly feels a bit kludgey.

* crosspost warning doesn't seem to work quite right - dumps you back to the thread, without the new post you're crossing, so you can't really adjust your reply or anything. then if you go to your reply and try to post it again, it still thinks you've got an xpost even though it's the same "new" post that's blocking you up... have to go back out to threads/bookmarks and back in for it to shake out of this.

* in general if my connection comes and goes or if I switch from data to wifi, the threads/bookmarks get hung up in a spinning refresh icon. have to force close the app and restart. that's pretty easy on my phone but I wonder if there is an easy fix?

* shortcut buttons to add bbbcode to replies (maybe another icon above the pink pencil?) would be great. ideally one could select txt and click to have it be bold, quotes, whatever, but I dunno how hard that would be.

* when writing a long post like this one, the pink pencil covers up what you're writing.

still groovin!

thanks again for making this. i'm using it more and more (it's mostly muscle memory to go to my phone's browser)

through no fault of my own, Flagging started showing errors on top of threads. just pushed 1.9 to fix that.