Big Updates Now In Beta

Hello!

Just wanted point out a couple of improvements we've made to the Logos app, now available on Testflight (and coming very soon on Android). You've given us lots of helpful feedback since we launched V6 in December, and we're responding to that with forthcoming releases.

Included in this Beta:

Long press on any link to determine how/where you want to resource to open (New Tab, Same Tab, top vs bottom tab)
We've added a new and improved resource scrubber for fast navigation
Bug fixes and under the hood improvements
Much improved low-light mode (you can put those sunglasses away!) [:D]

I'm curious, what do you think?

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Kenneth Neighoff

[:)]

Love the long press options.

Mathew Haferkamp

Hey Daniel, improvement is always good. Typically I just read on my app but I tried to answer a question the other day and when I pull up search on my app it takes 4 or 5 minutes before I can key in to search. It is on Samsung sm-j727a. Thanks, Matt

Graham Criddle

Hi Daniel

I like the long-press capability. Thanks for that.

It looks as though the default is to open a Bible if already open in a “split tab”. If this is so, I very much like it!

Any thoughts on extending it to the Passage Guide, for example? So you can have the PG open in one half of a split tab and cycle through different commentaries in the other?

Thanks, Graham

Erwin Stull, Sr.

Waiting for Android. :-)

Mark Martin

Is there still an opportunity to participate as a Beta Tester?

Thanks.

Daniel Di Bartolo

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/953613#Comment_953613

Is there still an opportunity to participate as a Beta Tester?

Just added you to Test Flight. Check you Faithlife Account email address. You will need to download Testflight to access.

Mathew Haferkamp

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/953616#Comment_953616

Hey Daniel, well I guess that is normal for search. That is sad, because without search what else is logos good for??

Daniel Di Bartolo

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/953621#Comment_953621

That is sad, because without search what else is logos good for??

Hi Matthew,

Thanks for sharing-- we have plans to improve search on mobile this year. Thanks for hanging in there!

Mathew Haferkamp

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/953628#Comment_953628

Sorry I guess you missed my first post.

Randy W. Sims

Long press on any link to determine how/where you want to resource to open (New Tab, Same Tab, top vs bottom tab)

Awesome! Thanks!

We've added a new and improved resource scrubber for fast navigation

Very, very nicely done. I love that it shows the chapter/section etc as you move the scrubber. Beautiful!

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/953633#Comment_953633

Hi Daniel,

A) Can you help me understand what's a "scrubber" and where do I see that?

For the long-press options, I have a split screen open, left with CUV Bible, right with a commentary. When I long-press on a Bible reference in the commentary, I get 4 options:

- Open: it replaces the right window with the same (default) Bible, now both opened to the same link I pressed on.

- Open in left section: works as expected, but then the commentary to the right also syncs to this new reference.

- Open in new tab: works as expected.

Questions:

1) With the left and right panels linked (sync'ed), is the above the expected behavior? It doesn't seem very intuitively helpful to me.

2) The comments from you and other users above seem to imply that the left/right panel can be further split vertically. Is that correct? How do I get that behavior?

I'm on iPad mini, running iOS 11.

Thanks,

Peter

Dave Hooton

Terminology?:

now available on Testflight (and coming very soon on Android)

Had to search for confirmation of being iOS beta.

(New Tab, Same Tab, top vs bottom tab)

Split tab can be top/bottom or left/right. Is this an expansion of "Same tab"?

resource scrubber for fast navigation

I can guess, but I didn't think what we have was slow!?

Bug fixes and under the hood improvements

I'd have to really guess what these are, as they may as well be classed as "under the hood".

Much improved low-light mode (you can put those sunglasses away!)

I don't need sunglasses at the moment...

So I'm [caveats] cautiously optimistic about all this.

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/953704#Comment_953704

resource scrubber for fast navigation

I can guess, but I didn't think what we have was slow!?

I haven't updated to see this in action, but (at least on iOS) there was no scrubber in the newest iteration of the mobile app. The only methods to navigate were 1) scrolling/page turns OR 2) the TOC. What happens when you have a resource without a TOC (or an inadequate one)?

Erwin Stull, Sr.

Android - I like the new features on Android (6.1), specifically the Long Press feature. It's very functional. Thanks [:)]

James McAdams

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/953823#Comment_953823

It’s great - i love having the resource scrubber back (largely so I can check my progress through a book), and the long-press option seems like one of the neater ways to give everyone what they want. Just great.

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/953658#Comment_953658

Can you help me understand what's a "scrubber" and where do I see that?

Sorry I didn't see this earlier. A "scrubber" is a slide that allows you to "scrub" through the pages rapidly. Instead of navigating by buttons, you simply slide. A form of a "scrubber" is found on your web browser when you want to quickly "scrub" from the TOP of a page to the BOTTOM.

Why is a scrubber necessary? Because sometimes it is the simplest way to navigate. As I mentioned earlier, this is CRITICAL for some resources, especially some Vyrso/Faithlife eBooks which don't have great Table of Contents. Imagine a TOC with only chapter headings. You come to a chapter with 75 pages... the only way to get to the middle of the chapter is to swipe, swipe, swipe 35 times. With a scrubber, you simply slide the scrubber until you reach your destination (or get close). This was already existing in the old app, but disappeared for the new one.

Where is the scrubber? It is now located under the reference box. Look at the BOTTOM of the TOP menu. To navigate, simply press, hold, slide.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/953973#Comment_953973

Thanks very much, Alabama!

Peter

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/953973#Comment_953973

This was already existing in the old app, but disappeared for the new one.

Where is the scrubber? It is now located under the reference box. Look at the BOTTOM of the TOP menu.

It has still to re-appear in the Android app!

Michael McLane

I would like to be added to TestFlight as well.

Thank you

Mark Barnes

We've added a new and improved resource scrubber for fast navigation

The scrubber's a useful improvement. It would be even better if you could adjust its sensitivity by moving your finger further away from the bar (as you can in most of Apple's audio or video apps).

By the way, the one improvement I would like to see being made is much better syncing of reading progress between desktop and iOS. On iOS, I tend to keep all the books I'm currently reading in open tabs but when I return to those tabs after reading on another device, the app never asks me if I want to update my location. It's very frustrating.

Samuel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/954093#Comment_954093

I love the new UI and the updates are great, but will we ever get copy bible verses functionality on iOS? I write a lot and it's hard on iPad to to be able to easily copy and paste passages out of Logos into a manuscript. With more and more people working on iPad is seems very strange this isn't present.

Davy Wang

Hi Daniel,

Really appreciate and thank you and FL team for the improvements!

If the two points can be implemented will be really perfect:

1. The real full screen mode.

Described here: https://community.logos.com/forums/t/158719.aspx

2. Let the app can choose operating system (iOS, Android) embedded fonts.

Thank you very much in advance!

Best regards.

Davy