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Version 6.1.0

Release Date

September, 20th 2019

Compatibility

iOS 9, iOS 10, iOS 11, iOS 12, iOS 13, iPadOS 13

This release is packed with many new features and brings support for Dark Mode in iOS 13.

Warning

Update 24.09.2019: The application is crashing on iPad 2 or iPad 3 running iOS 9.3 but is working fine on some iPhones running iOS 9.3. Problem is triggered from internal framework and libraries and actually not bound to iPad vs iPhone but to the use of a 32-bit device (iPhone 4, 4S, 5, 5C, iPad 2, 3, 4th generation). Such hardware was sold until mid-2013.

What’s New

Flyout Menu

The drawer or flyout menu introduced in version 3.1 and the quick link to your personal profile have been streamlined into a brand new flyout menu:

Flyout menu of the LionsBase application

From a technical perspective, this brings many important enhancements under the hood but when it comes to user experience (UX), this evolution has two direct major benefits:

  1. It is much more logical to see your photo and name in the central menu and just have to tap them to open your personal profile than to use a small action icon from the dashboard.

  2. Smartphone screens are getting larger and larger and this makes accessing the various menu entries with your thumb more easily when those menu entries are pushed a bit more to the bottom of the screen.

Dark Mode

Since iOS 13.0, people can choose to adopt a dark system-wide appearance called Dark Mode. In Dark Mode, the system uses a darker color palette for all screens, views, menus, and controls, and it uses more vibrancy to make foreground content stand out against the darker backgrounds.

People can choose Dark Mode as their default interface style, and they can use Settings > Display & Brightness to make their devices automatically switch to Dark Mode when ambiant light is low:

Dark Mode in iOS 13.0 and later

This release of LionsBase mobile brings support for Dark Mode to streamline your user experience while using your device. This may sound something minor but was in fact an enormous refactoring job to support it properly.

Here are some side-by-side examples on how the application behaves in Light Mode and in Dark Mode:

Side-by-side comparison of Light vs Dark modes for LionsBase mobile

Events

  • The design of an event has been streamlined with other detail views

  • The user experience for answering custom questions has been enhanced, and more especially the questions of type “Radio”:

    Use of real radio buttons instead of a list of items

Other Changes

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

  • authenticating from the welcome screen (dashboard) is now much easier thanks to an action button,

  • sometimes the “My Club” zone in dashboard was rendered after the news, this is now fixed,

  • as part of supporting Dark Mode into this application, the whole theming has been thought again and some colors have been adjusted to better stand out, even when using the pre-iOS 13 standard “Light” mode,

  • performance has been boosted a bit by applying additional modern design pattern to the pages of the applications,

  • various internal libraries have been upgraded, this automatically brings a fade-in and fade-out effect when switching from one page to another, which is visually appealing.

Note

Using Android? Please see corresponding release notes.

Documentation created using Sphinx 4.3.2 and integrated in TYPO3 with restdoc.