What’s New¶

In the age of always having our smartphone with us, and after empowering club members by letting them edit some personal pieces of data, it is time for more!

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Club Members¶

Two years ago (time flies), we introduced a way for clubs to let their members edit some of their personal information (read more).

This release gets one step further and enables club administrators to add a new member to their club from within the list of members.

How? By tapping the circled “+” icon in the toolbar:

Similarly to the creation of a new event (introduced in version 8.4), this will show a simple wizard with the most useful information so that the new member may be enrolled as quickly as possible:

The new member will automatically receive a multilingual welcome message with instructions on how to install the LionsBase mobile application.

Events¶

The input form to create a new event lets you now choose which groups of members are targeted by that event:

Calendar of Events¶

Back in version 4.1, we introduced a button to let you subscribe to your personal feed of events. Unfortunately, and unlike users on iOS, the application actually only helped you by copying the subscription URL into the clipboard.

Android users had then to follow rather convoluted steps in order to actually subscribe to the feed.

Thanks to Fabrice from LC Estavayer-le-Lac (MD 102), we could raise the user experience to the same level as iOS users experienced so far: tapping the button will now open your Google Calendar right away and let you confirm that you really want to subscribe to the feed.

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This opens Google Calendar in a mobile browser and thus does not require any additional authorization on your smartphone, which is much better than asking you to grant LionsBase mobile access and management of all of your calendars.

Other Changes¶

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

• 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.