New MRA Mobile app
-
@herko-ter-horst said in New MRA Mobile app:
@con-hennekens With the latest update, there is no more 'planning' functionality in the mobile app, so calling it 'mobile planner', would not just be confusing, it would be misleading.
Yeah, that's true, but there are a lot of disappointed comments about that too. Instead of an update to the planner that makes it no planner anymore, they would better have it made into a separate MRA Tracking App or something... I have to admit that a lot of decisions in the MRA development are rather erratic.
wrote on 30 May 2022, 09:42 last edited by@con-hennekens I think the planning functionality is covered by the website "MRA Routeplanner" which works fine on mobile devices as well, so I can see the benefit for MRA going forward, not having to maintain that functionality for the Mobile app. I believe the functionality to export routes to other apps/devices will/should be restored to the MRA Mobile app, however.
Personally, I have barely used the Mobile app for either purpose (planning maybe once or twice, sharing with other apps/devices once) in the past and I've never used it to track a route or add photos, so I've deleted it from my phone for now. I'll just use the website (99,9% on PC, 0,1% on mobile I expect).
-
@con-hennekens I think the planning functionality is covered by the website "MRA Routeplanner" which works fine on mobile devices as well, so I can see the benefit for MRA going forward, not having to maintain that functionality for the Mobile app. I believe the functionality to export routes to other apps/devices will/should be restored to the MRA Mobile app, however.
Personally, I have barely used the Mobile app for either purpose (planning maybe once or twice, sharing with other apps/devices once) in the past and I've never used it to track a route or add photos, so I've deleted it from my phone for now. I'll just use the website (99,9% on PC, 0,1% on mobile I expect).
@herko-ter-horst, I agree, and like you I rarely use the app indeed. The most meaningful function is likely the roundtrip generator, that would better have been integrated in the navigation app anyway. On the other side, how hard can it be for the mobile app to show the MRA website in an embedded window inside the app? That would be a nicer solution then to tell users to use the browser. But I am probably overlooking some plausible reasons.
-
Hi everyone! Thank you for your feedback.
I've made a new thread under announcements where I let some of you know that we're pushing an update right now that should resolve almost every concern everyone has had so far.
kind regards,
Timo