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What's new at GoodBarber? October 2018

Head of Frontend Engineering

  Updated   3 min read

A lot of you give us regular feedback on your usage of GoodBarber and possible fixes and improvements that you think we could make. We are really appreciative of these suggestions, as they are a significant help to us in continuously making GoodBarber a more powerful app builder that meets your needs. 

This month we worked on different fixes and improvements that you've asked for—one in particular that should really please Map section users—from now on, the distance between the user and the map points is displayed even if the list of points isn't ordered by location. 

You can find a summary of the developments and updates made during October, 2018 below:

Native iOS App

  • Article Section
    • Fixed an issue causing the header to be hidden when the disappear effect was activated and the list only contained a few articles.
    • In the comments page, fixed an issue causing infinite loading after login via Disqus.
 
  • Video Section
    • Fixed an issue preventing the fullscreen button from responding.
 
  • Map Section
    • From now on, distance is displayed even if the list isn't ordered by location.
    • Fixed an issue causing the comments button not to respond. 
 
  • Sound Section
    • In the details view, fixed an issue preventing links to other sound detail pages from working. 
 
  • Twitter Section
    • Fixed an issue preventing the Follow, Respond, and Retweet buttons from working. 
 
  • Search Section
    • Fixed an issue causing the wrong colors to be displayed in the post comment icon. 
 
  • Authentication Add-on
    • Twitter sign-up and sign-in is back.
    • Fixed an issue causing a non translated message to be displayed when a log-in error occurred. 
    • In the push notification history page, fixed an issue preventing certain notifications from appearing. 
 
  • Live Plus Add-on
    • Fixed an issue preventing the author and track title from being displayed. 
    • Fixed a problem causing the share button to be hidden. 

Native Android App

  • Home Section
    • Fixed a display issue causing certain elements to be covered by the header. 
 
  • Map Section
    • From now on, the distance is displayed even if the list isn't ordered by location. 
 
  • Photo Section
    • The description can now be expanded when clicked on.
 
  • Community Add-on
    • Fixed an issue causing a crash when the user clicked a link to a User List section.  
  • Live Plus Add-on
    • If a track doesn't have a cover, the thumbnail is now hidden.
    • Fixed an issue causing the share button to be hidden.
    • When there is no link on the cover, the share button is now hidden. 
    • Fixed an issue preventing the daily schedule from working.
 
  • Loyalty Card Add-on
    • Fixed an issue causing a crash when a user validated a point. 
 
  • Other fixes and improvements 
    • In the video player, videos can now be played even if there is a cross protocol redirect (http to https).
    • In the audio player, fixed an issue causing a crash on Android 4.4.
    • When the user clicks a link to the app's home page, the navigation mode is no longer displayed if the JSON setting «startOpen» is set to 1.
    • The APK file size has been reduced to about 14 MB.

PWA

  • Home Section
    • In widgets with the Classic Horizontal template, fixed an alignment problem.
    • In Map widgets, the distance to the place is now displayed.
    • In widgets with the Card template, fixed an issue that was preventing the background opacity from being applied.
 
  • Map Section
    • The distance is now displayed even if the list isn't ordered by location. 
 
  • Event Section
    • In the list view, the date bullet animation has been improved. 
    • In the detail views, fixed a problem causing an error with event information when the text was on several lines. 
 
  • Form Section
    • Video downloading has been improved. 
 
  • Couponing Add-on
    • Fixed a problem causing a 404 error on certain pages.
 
  • Other fixes and improvements
    • Improvements on overall performance.
    • Right to left language display improved in several sections. 

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