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Version 9.0.1

Release Date

April, 21st 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 fixes minor glitches with District 126 - Croatia and makes it more user friendly for potential Belgian Lions to use the application since we now feature a Dutch user interface as well.

What’s New

Support for Croatia has been added in Version 9.0.0 and we found minor problems that we addressed with this new release.

In addition the application is now available in Dutch. This means LionsBase mobile is now available in 10 languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Finnish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Croatian.

Other Changes

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

  • a few country flags were missing in the mobile application;

  • translations have been improved;

  • news may now reference the author’s photo with an external URI, which is handy for some RSS sources;

  • 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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