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):

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:

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