Wishlist for the ChinesePod Android App
johnb
September 28, 2010 at 02:44 AM posted in ChinesePod Mobile Apps
This thread is intended to be a holder for feature wishlists for the ChinesePod Android app. If there's something you'd like to see on the Android app, please leave a comment in reply to this thread and we'll see what we can do.
kris153
September 13, 2012 at 03:22 AM
Another wish for the Android app, an option for flashcards to show audio first, like on the website. I guess this could be easily achieved by simply showing a blank card first.
kris153
September 12, 2012 at 01:52 AM
I can't find a way to make the chinese text appear without the pinyin and english translation directly below, as they do on the website. Not sure about others, but for me it is essential that I try to recall characters alone first, and it is annoying to have to try to cover the latin scripts with my finger.
root
September 21, 2012 at 04:10 AM
Holy Android fragmentation, Batman.
I agree, a bit dissapointing the app only supports 25% of users :( http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
I guess my hopes to switch my phone to android and use CPod will have to be tempered, and plans delayed, here come more iphone bondage years!
kris153
September 19, 2012 at 08:15 AM
This is disappointing. I think you should make it clear to your user community that your app only has basic functionality for any devices older than a year or so, unless they upgrade the operating system. In other words, it is of limited use for a large number of Android users.
RomanT
September 19, 2012 at 07:39 AM
Hi Kris,
Our latest version is actually 3.0.4. Though this will only work on devices that are Android 3 onwards.
Unfortunately we won't be updating 2.1.6 as we focus on improving the latest App and so do apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.
kris153
September 19, 2012 at 06:31 AM
Roman, still waiting for confirmation that 2.1.6 downloaded from Android Play is the latest version. I see that I have inadvertently replied to myself rather than your post, but hopefully this will show up.
kris153
September 12, 2012 at 05:20 AM
In fact, a mildly useful general feature for the whole web site would be to be able to play sentence audio without even chinese text visible. After all, many are trying to practise listening and speaking, not primarily reading. Of course it's achievable by ignoring the characters, but would be nice to be able to hide them.
kris153
September 12, 2012 at 04:47 AM
I'm using 2.1.6 which is the latest version on Android Play, looking at the complimentary course lessons. None of the sections have a "translate" option, they show all sentences with english and pinyin, and a little arrow pointing out of the screen to the right, which takes you to more information about the sentence.
RomanT
September 12, 2012 at 04:01 AM
Kris, hi.
Thank you very much for your feedback. Please let me know which version of the app you use. If it is the latest version, you may see this kind of problem only in vocabulary part of lesson, since dialogue, expansion and grammar sections in the latest version of the app won't show you pinyin and translation until you expend an item by clicking on it and tap "translate".
Thanks.
matthiask
September 28, 2010 at 10:58 AM
most of it all: make it work again. Still stuck to 1.2 as 2+ versions do not show the lessons for me.
matthiask
September 28, 2010 at 10:26 AM
my wish list in the tech probs group seems to have disappeared ...
hamshank
September 28, 2010 at 04:23 AM
My wish list for the moment... (Some realistic, others just dreams)
1) Skritter lite integration for writing practice...
2)Audio download improvements
a) The ability to choose where audio files are downloaded to... This is so I can get them to appear into my MP3 player after downloading.
b) Add the audio review files to download and listen to.
c) Have a preference option to keep the audio files that are downloaded for single words and sentences or delete them on the application close to stop the app getting too bloated on disk space or finally ask each time whether to keep it as there might be the odd few tricky ones you want to save for practice.
3) Have a recording function so we can record ourselves speaking the sentences or words. It would also be great to be able to compare it side by side afterwards with the original CPOD audio for the sentence to see how our tones and rhythm compare.
beikaiwen26
December 09, 2012 at 12:32 AMI above all else want to be able to queue several lessons. It would make a huge difference for me when I use the app, which is when I'm driving. Huge difference!