Version 8.8.0¶
- Release Date
January, 23rd 2022
- Compatibility
Android 5.1 (Lollipop), Android 6 (Marshmallow), Android 7 and 7.1 (Nougat), Android 8 and 8.1 (Oreo), Android 9.0 (Pie), Android 10.0, Android 11.0 (R), Android 12.0 (S)
This version supports further European languages and uses singular/plural form at various places for a better User Experience (UX).
What’s New¶
While adding support for Croatian, we thought it was a perfect opportunity to do some fine tuning by using a singular or plural form for the labels, depending on the corresponding quantity. For example the number of Lions years when you show the profile page of a member:
This applies to a few other labels as well, such as using “Sponsor” or “Sponsors” when listing one’s list of sponsor members or showing “Guest Club” if there’s only one such club associated to an event.
Hint
Possibly you didn’t know that most European languages consider 0 as being plural (and 1 naturally singular). But French on the other hand only uses the plural form for 2 and more.
Some languages have even more than one plural form. If you want to learn more, please see the Language Plural Rules from the Unicode Standard.
Other Changes¶
In addition, a few bugs have been squashed and minor enhancements integrated:
the application is now available in Croatian;
the application is now available in Finnish;
the application is now available in Swedish;
events with an external registration form are not wrongly counted as being “unanswered” since we have no way to know whether you answered or not anyway;
various internal libraries have been upgraded.
About the Large Compatibility with Versions of Android¶
As you see, we do our best to keep compatibility with rather old versions of Android (Android 5.1 - Lollipop dates back from March 2015 and this represents a gigantic jump in the past in the IT world).
If we keep such old compatibility (compared to Apple users), this is related to a very unfortunate fact that Android smartphones and tablets are usually maintained much less than Apple ones. In fact, manufacturers such as Samsung are selling their devices with (usually) the latest available version of Android at that time and provide major updates of the system for something that we estimate for about 2 years in contrast to Apple which supports its devices for as long as 6 years. We understand that LionsBase application users do not see any need to get a new device every 2 to 3 years (which is totally legit) and as such, we strive to keep compatibility as long as we can.
As problems arise due to this compatibility and as the number of people still actively using older devices decreases, we may drop support for some older versions at any time.
Note
Using iOS? Please see corresponding release notes.