What’s New¶

We found a problem while showing how many persons are (or not) participating to an event or did not yet answer. The counter is now correct and properly depicts when the list of invitations with pending answer has been truncated.

Other Changes¶

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

• as of Chrome OS version M53, all Android apps that do not explicitly require a touchscreen should be able to run on all Chromebooks; we changed that setting so that, hopefully, you will be able to install this application on those other devices as well;

• 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.