Check out the new XDA app! Let us know what you think [App rolling out now]

[Thebear j koss]

Anyone heard any news on whether there's ever gonna be an update to fix the XDA app or better yet an entirely new one?

Obviously everyone is aware of the fact the current XDA app is and has been a complete and total disaster since the day it was very first released in its beta ever worked properly since, an now completely unusable. Still makes absolutely no sense to me why they made the decision to just completely abandon the original "XDA Labs" app which was great. I understand the XDA Developers website was being completely rebuilt from the ground up at the same time the current XDA aosbut still doesn't explain why you'd abandon what was at the very least a very solid base for which a could of been a dimple uild the new app off instead of the unusable mess they decided to create and release. I'm a long time user and big fan of the XDA forums and really hope to one day see again some sort of an XDA Forums app that is usable and has some actual decent functionality like "XDA Labs" did. Hopefully this idea hasn't been completely given up on, if anyone has any knowledge on this please let me know, thanks ....

Developer of xda labs app stopped development on it. Nothing to do with XDA. XDA switched forum platforms, so app had to be completely rebuilt in the new platform. I don't have any more issues since they got rid of the awful ads that plagued the app originally. I don't hear or see many complaints anymore as the app functions fine, although with a search hiccup or 2. Most of the gripes are people preferred the Labs app which like I said was dropped by the Dev (not xda) and it would have needed to be changed to this platform anyway for it to work which basically means it would be exactly this app. I used Tapatalk for over 10+ years, basically from the 1st tapatalk app and because xda changed it's forum platform it stopped working on there as well. If the app is not your thing, you can always use web version and add a shortcut directly to that, or better yet, since this a development forum, one can learn to build and design their own app.

 

[orb_selektor]

Waiting exited the next update of XDA app!

 

[AlanzJazz]

Seems OK,
I'm a new user & just finding my way!
Alan

 

[orb_selektor]

Seems OK,
I'm a new user & just finding my way!
Alan

Welcome to XDA!
Hopefully soon we will have an update

 

[svendsvin]

Don't know where else to ask so I try here. Can I change time setting from am/pm to 24 hours on the webpage?

 

[Oswald Boelcke]

Don't know where else to ask so I try here. Can I change time setting from am/pm to 24 hours on the webpage?

Thanks for asking, and I'm very sorry to say negative, you can't. Since the transition to Xenforo, this is no longer implemented. And as a non-US-American I'm also not used at all to am/pm and therefore requested such a feature many moons ago but it's obviously not possible to implement that unless somebody else develops an add-on for Xenforo.

 

[IronTechmonkey]

Regarding am/pm vs 24 hour clock, even as someone who is accustomed to the am/pm system, there are many ways in which I prefer 24 hour clock for forums and Tech work, especially when doing time-related comparisons, and even more so when comparing across time zones. Also IMO 24-hour clock is more intuitive for comparisons between GMT 0 vs current local time.

While I'm here, and on another topic: has anyone else noticed recent changes in behavior of text selection and zooming in the app? At some time in the past few weeks some pages seems to have gained the ability to zoom, during which parts of the page remain with their original word wrapping while other parts are not wrapped. Additionally the selection of text within a post being created or edited seems to have gotten easier, in particular long press to select individual word now functions reliably which it did not in the past. This could be due to changes in any of several things in the OS (webview?) but I've seen it on two devices and so was wondering if this has anything to do with the last round of maintenance on the back end.

 

[eriol1]

Thanks for asking, and I'm very sorry to say negative, you can't. Since the transition to Xenforo, this is no longer implemented. And as a non-US-American I'm also not used at all to am/pm and therefore requested such a feature many moons ago but it's obviously not possible to implement that unless somebody else develops an add-on for Xenforo.

Does this help us?
https://xenforo.com/community/threa...-users-choose-12-hour-or-24-hour-clock.25762/
It's old, but maybe still relevant?

It says clock format is linked to the language, so a new language preference could be created by the forum admins (say "English 24h clock" for example) which would allow users to select a clock format.

That being said, I tried to find the language preference on the website and didn't find anything. Am I just being stupid not finding it or is there no language selection available?

 

[Oswald Boelcke]

Does this help us?
https://xenforo.com/community/threa...-users-choose-12-hour-or-24-hour-clock.25762/
It's old, but maybe still relevant?

It says clock format is linked to the language, so a new language preference could be created by the forum admins (say "English 24h clock" for example) which would allow users to select a clock format.

That being said, I tried to find the language preference on the website and didn't find anything. Am I just being stupid not finding it or is there no language selection available?

Thanks very much for further digging into this but it's not only beyond my paygrade. Moderators have no insight how the website is technically set up. So far I've never seen any possibility to set a preferred language, and if I correctly remember that wasn't the case under vBulletin either.

Maybe @MikeChannon has more information or knows what the backroom webgurus are doing?

 

[MikeChannon]

Does this help us?
https://xenforo.com/community/threa...-users-choose-12-hour-or-24-hour-clock.25762/
It's old, but maybe still relevant?

It says clock format is linked to the language, so a new language preference could be created by the forum admins (say "English 24h clock" for example) which would allow users to select a clock format.

That being said, I tried to find the language preference on the website and didn't find anything. Am I just being stupid not finding it or is there no language selection available?

Thanks very much for further digging into this but it's not only beyond my paygrade. Moderators have no insight how the website is technically set up. So far I've never seen any possibility to set a preferred language, and if I correctly remember that wasn't the case under vBulletin either.

Maybe @MikeChannon has more information or knows what the backroom webgurus are doing?

Well for simplicity and server load etc we only have English (US) installed.
I can suggest English (UK) as an addition which might give us alternative time formats.
However, this is far from a promise that our technical guys will approve such an addition... we do have to be careful not to overload things here, I already see some slowness in the servers from time to time.

Mike