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Version 9.0.0

Release Date

March, 24th 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 release hopefully paves the way for more exchanges with other European members.

What’s New

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Support for other countries

Version 8.8.0 added support for much many important European languages. Now it is time to get one step further. In an attempt to convince other European countries to join us on LionsBase mobile, we added support for more countries / multiple districts:

  • MD 101: Sweden

  • MD 104: Norway

  • MD 105: United Kingdom

  • MD 106: Denmark

  • MD 107: Finland

  • MD 108: Italy

  • MD 110: The Netherlands

  • MD 112: Belgium

  • MD 115: Portugal

  • MD 116: Spain

  • D 126: Croatia

  • D 129: Slovenia

  • D 133: Republic of Ireland

This is depicted on this map (blue for countries using the mobile application for many years, yellow for supported countries and green for European countries not yet taken into account):

Countries supported by LionsBase mobile

For the time being, this is reflected in the authentication form. Having them in the application lets us then easily get them on board.

In that regard, it is worth mentioning that the list of multiple districts is now sorted alphabetically instead of based on their corresponding ID, which is much more user friendly.

Bookmarks

We replaced the list of recently searched members (introduced in Version 2.3.0) with a concept of bookmarks, which will be much more useful on a daily basis:

Toggle bookmark on a member's profile page

Bookmarks are then visible when you open the page to search a member but did not yet start to type something.

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Note

Similarly to the behaviour of the list of recently searched members, please note that bookmarks are stored locally on your device and thus not kept in sync with your other devices running LionsBase mobile.

Events

Going to the detail of the multiple district, a district, a region or a zone, you may now see the corresponding programme. In most cases, this will be informational only as most events are targeted at some functions or members of the corresponding area.

For details, please read the (updated) chapter Multiple District in the complete user manual.

Other Changes

In addition, a few bugs have been squashed and minor enhancements integrated:

  • the application is now using version 2 of the LionsBase API;

  • the documents were possibly mistakenly unavailable; after some investigations, we found the problem that could arise randomly and fixed it;

  • usage of “Multiple District” has been streamlined; previously we used “Multi District” or “Multi-District”;

  • 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.

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