New Android Beta Version - 5.2.19(319)

New fixes:

  • Improvement to text selection in RTL languages like Hebrew;
  • Fix to crash when opening a lesson in devices with Android version below 8.0;
  • Fix to not opening lessons that were opened previously using the latest version of the iOS app.

Previous changes:

  • Daily Goal notification;
  • Notifications list accessible from the home menu;
  • Video view in Listening Mode accessible directly from the bottom lesson menu;
  • Show dictionaries in the blue word small popup;
  • Audio doesn’t restart playing if it was paused before a call;
  • Pressing one of the translations in the small LingQ popup now expands and opens editing;
  • Fix to Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Hebrew languages text where some lines didn’t have highlight or scripts in devices pre-Android 10.
  • Vocabulary filter by tags;
  • Language switching for Popular Meanings;
  • Related phrases correctly show in the list now;
  • Streak view updates with progress;
  • Audio playback doesn’t start half a second later;
  • Rewind 5 seconds works when audio is paused;
  • Settings for devices with Android 6.0 and below now toggle as expected;
  • Order of languages by last used;
  • English won’t be added again in some cases when users log in in the app and have another language selected;
  • Translate button doesn’t replay tts from last page;
  • Created LingQs now inherent tags from the word;
  • Word popup status doesn’t get hidden at the bottom of the screen anymore;
  • Course images now are consistent;
  • Shared by in lesson or course info now shows Private if its private lesson/course;
  • Related phrases and popular meanings now load quicker when expanding popup;
  • Other issues fixed and improvements.
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Thanks Tiago and Mark. I can confirm I’m able to now open lessons that were opened in iOS version prior!

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I’m using the youtube watching/reading mode in the lesson but the video/audio won’t pause or start when I click play on my earphones/bluetooth headset.

Also, if I click the headphone symbol in the app, nothing happens

I am experiencing inconsistent Lingq-counts. I created at least 25 lingqs, but only five were registered. Maybe this is why daily goal notification doesn’t come up.

Also, I have recently seen that it can take up to 50 seconds to open the lesson. Generally, opening lessons have become substantially slower.

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The caching issues I and others had previously reported on the web beta are also present on the app. Previously deleted courses still appear on the list and it is impossible to delete them. Next update, maybe ?

Also, could you introduce an option so that a course is NOT automatically added to our list whenever we open a lesson to check the contents? This is a real pain in the neck. A pop-up saying “would you like to add this course to your list?” would be welcome.

And please, add an option to delete any course we no longer want. I can only find a button to remove the course from the currently studying list, but there is no delete option!

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I had issues too. I noticed it most on words read today count. I finished a lesson so it should’ve shown words read greater than 0, but it showed 0. I also felt like I had more lingq and known words. I think the app is simply not updating it’s view, because I can see the bumps in the counts on the iOS version (i.e. android app DID send the updates, it’s just not refreshing correctly on its display).

If I try to “refresh” the stats counts sometimes it seems to never return with values at all.

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The app isn’t accepting or saving my LingQs today, I have seen this before on the normal app so I’m not sure if it is specific to the beta or not. I had to use the website to do my daily LingQ’ing.

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When you try to create a LingQ, does it turn yellow? Can you change its status? What happens if you pull to refresh the lesson, or exit and come back?

It let me create the LingQ and acted like it saved it, however it would not register to my account. I have closed the app, refreshed the lessons, and gone to other lessons, nothing would register. When I went to the website, it had not registered those LingQs. I tried this on my Blackberry Key 2 LE and Samsung S6 Tablet.

Was this after updating the app to the latest version or was this current version working yesterday? If tomorrow this issue continues, I would greatly appreciate if you could send your credentials to support email so I could test using your account. In case you do send it, please change the password before to something random that you don’t use elsewhere.

I don’t know my password as I have always logged in single signal sign-on. Regardless, for security reasons I cannot do the request.

I do believe it worked great just yesterday, it was just today when I opened the app that it would not work.

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Hi!

I have a galaxy note 3 with Android 5.0 and I observed the following issues in version 5.2.19 (319):

-The app crashes when I click on “all” (right side) in the lesson overview. It happens for “my lessons” as well as for “what’s new”, “mini stories”, etc. and can be reproduced with 100% success.

-The app crashes when I click on any of my courses (under “continue studying” > “courses”). Can be reproduced with 100% success. The same happens btw. when attempting to access the course via any lesson > … > lesson info > course.

-Selecting single or multiple words within the lesson still doesn’t work - I reported this in the last version’s post and details can be found there, Tiago is aware: “When I try to select a phrase, the whole screen moves down by about 1 cm (leaving a black space in the top) while I press the finger down. Nothing is actually selected though. When I let go, everything moves back, but marking phrases is impossible. :frowning: I also don’t seem to get a suggestion which phrases other users looked up (former grey background).”

-When I click the bottom right button for vocab review in the lesson, a grey bar appears in the bottom and the app freezes without crashing - also this can be reproduced with 100% success and was already reported in the last version.

The following issues that were reported last time are now fixed:

-“I also don’t see the tags of a word when it’s yellow. I do see them when the word is blue initially so it seems they get lost.”

-“I don’t exactly know how but after a while I also get an additional tick symbol in the top right corner of the word hint. When I click it the app crashes and after the restart it’s gone again for a while.” (note: a trash button and a tick still appear in the top right corner of the word hint irregularly and I can’t quite make out the logic but as I said, they don’t lead to a crash anymore)

As last time I unfortunately have to uninstall the beta as it is unusable on my phone + Android version but I’m happy to retest or provide any additional information if you need me to!

Cheers!

This is also happening to me. It’s not clear to me if the stat is all that is not updating or it’s the LingQs or words are not being created.

I have also noticed several words that I know I marked known today end up yellow again when moving to a new page. This is on the 319 build.

I logged on today to say exactly the same thing. Just because I’m trying to find something appropriate to study doesn’t mean I want everything I look at to be added to my course list. (only to find that it still can’t be removed in the app). This actually makes it harder to find the lessons I want to study. A pop-up asking if I would like to add a course is an excellent suggestion.

You can go to the course that you don’t want to be in your course list, and remove all lessons at the top menu and the course should be gone from your list.

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You can go to the course that you don’t want to be in your course list, and remove all lessons at the top menu and the course should be gone from your course list. We do not find adding another popup for something like this is a good idea. The caching issues will be looked into.

Due to the above issue and trying out various methods of trying to fix it, I can no longer log in to the 5.0 Beta App. As such, I have reverted to 4.0 for the time being. I look forward to the next update.

The stats have an issue that we are working on. Please confirm if you are unable to create LingQs and if the status does not update.

I can’t replicate the issue at all so I can’t do much about this. Even more if it was working a couple of days ago with the same version. Might be something in the server that changed. I will investigate further and see possible causes.