Good Day Steemers,
Tremendous support and feedback from users and community in beta 0.0.3, made it possible to move forward and bring you next list of updates, improvements. I would like to thank @ned, @xeroc, @svk, @fabien and many more of you for your support.
After long hours of work, I am happy to present you Beta 0.0.4 of Steem Mobile.
Yes, you saw it right, this version will come with iOS and Android version releases.
Android version is pushed to the production, but please still consider this as a beta.
Updates and New Features
What's New
This section main stone for future development, as it took longest time to refactor code and add new features. That's why I am so excited that we now have a way to sign and broadcast transactions locally. Thanks to Steemit.com team for making site opensource it helped a lot.
- login (everything is kept locally and after logout data is cleared out)
Project is opensource, please review codebase branch develop. Anyone who has question for security of the implementation please let me know. This is initial implementation which uses steemjs-lib and steem-rpc by @svk, I just browserified it and made couple changes to make it compatible with app. - while you are logged in, you can now vote, unvote, downvote the posts you like in your finger tip.
- reading made beautiful with more easy to eye font (Gotham Rounded Book)
- introducing change view mode (Compact and Card view)
Compact view, only shows title and keeps post list compact
Card view, fetches image from post and displays beautifully as card. Recommended: to use proper image format and link in posts, it feels really great with card view mode. Posts that don't have images, app tries to display in card view as much as it can. - post share is implemented.
- introducing draft of Exchange (Internal Market) of the Steem, view only, you will be able to do exchange right in app later on as we develop.
- icon and splash screen better and gives more professional look.
Improvements
For that section I am grateful for the users and community for being active on giving feedback, help and support. These changes bringing more fluid and smooth experience while using app.
- followers and following pages combined
- markdown improvements (images, youtube videos, links, etc.)
watch, read, enjoy with better markdown, you can now watch youtube videos, images, read while enjoying using app. - websocket connection errors handled better
- improved performance
- design layout changes
- search (tag, user), improved. Case sensative automatically handled by making letters lowercase while typing.
- overall navigation issues are fixed
- view last 15 transactions, in profile->wallet page right after balances.
Android
Download on Android Google play
update should be available in few hours if not already
iOS
update
Happy to invite everyone for beta testing with their iOS device. Just email: "invite" to netsolutions-info@yandex.com.
Some screenshots from my iPhone via internal TestFlight testing, working fine so far :-)
Apple's review is done and we START testing....
Development
Anyone who is sufficient and willing to contribute to the project, please welcome and don't hesitate to contact me. Project is open source, it uses, Node.js, Angular, Ionic, Cordova/Phonegap, Gulp, Bower, etc. Solely rely on websocket by user's choice and provided by steemit.com and piston. Now that we have local signing and broadcasting of transaction in place, development continues to bring more functionality of Steem to Mobile users...
Feedback, Concern, Questions, Feature requests
Please leave a comment below or use github issue tracker.
Hope you will enjoy using the app and Steem! :-)
UPDATE
iOS beta approved by Apple for beta testing, invite everyone for testing, email: "invite" to netsolutions-info@yandex.com to get included in external testers.