On the iNat iOS app, the Username field on sign-in can accept either username or email.

On the iNat Android app, the Username field accepts email and appears to use it to properly login, but something is different. For example the Settings page reads 'Signed in as [email protected]' rather than 'Signed in as loarie' and the Syncing/refreshing doesn't work.

I suspect, the app is erroneously populating the username with the email somewhere

This is the turned out to be pbrastow's mystery 'the app is broken' bug. Seems like it is definitely a high priority to fix as it may be effecting a lot of other people.

Some project checklists like the checklist for 'Afribats' never load. Whats going on here?

To match the iOS app, replace the "Leave" button on the project page with a button that shows a loading spinner when the checklist is loading, and a reload icon otherwise. On iOS it looks like

Tapping the reload icon should refresh the list from the server.

Local observations get deleted when you sign out of the app, but currently there is no warning about this when you tap "Sign out."

... rather than sync the blank observation, or even add it to the sync queue. An observation with no description, ID, or photo should be discarded by default unless the user clicks "save".

You should need to install Flurry to get the app to build, so if possible, let's make it optional.

Clicking Search on the Projects and Guides tab should be global - not restricted to your projects/guides or nearby projects/guides. That is if I click on 'your guides' and see 3 guides: a, b, and c but under search I enter d which is someone else's guide this should get returned. the Search bar should search globally

The tapping an obs photo in the iPhone app opens a viewer with a little trashcan to disassociate the photo from the obs (see screenshot)

This is super useful - would be great to add this feature to the Android app. Might be harder since the Android app is redirecting to an external (photos or gallery) viewer to view the photos...

Right now it says "Use device language settings" even if the device's locale is not supported by the app:

That's confusing for people who see "italiano" chosen but don't actually see any Italian translations. Instead I think it should just list all the locales we do support, with the system locale selected by default. Thoughts?

Need a general 'Add observation' button above project checklists as was built for Texas Nature Trackers.

This work was done for TX app (see screenshot), but not brought into main app 1.3.10 (20)

I believe this is how the APIs return the queries. Are you doing some sort of post-request sorting to make them display alphabetically?

e.g. 'UNIDO' should become 'Unido'

Right now it seems to be showing the last photo, but we generally consider the first photo to be the default. For example, see http://www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/282017 and http://www.inaturalist.org/guides/1464

Replace all project detail view with just the join button, description, icon, and an "add to project" button that shows the new observation view with the project selected. Not sure if this also means clearing out local data.

Hey,

In a separate email Scott mentioned that there is some work to do to get the Android app up to date with changes in the iOS app. Opening this issue to start the conversation as I'd be happy to help! Will work on a version for Minnesota Master Naturalists at some point.

Thanks!

Certain taxa selected through the Taxon Chooser are getting posted without taxon_ids such as 'Isopoda':

I think it would be nice if iNaturalist showed up under the "share" menu in the Gallery as a way to initiate a new observation. Ideally, this would allow multiple images to be selected and added to an observation in a single share.

Unless someone else is really keen on adding this functionality, I'd be happy to take a pass at coding it myself. That being said, I haven't done any Android development and might need some guidance regarding the Android APIs (I have tons of Java experience, just not Android).

Just from some preliminary searching, it looks like I may need to implement a ShareActionProvider and/or an Intent.

When observations or observation photos are available to sync, there should be a flag such as the 'Sync 1 observations' displayed on the observations tab in the screen capture below:

However when sync is interrupted, this flag disappears even though there is unsynced content as shown here

the sync indicators which are using the device tools via the little iNat bird icons in the top menu are also fairly inconspicuous and misleadingly labeled

When signed into the app, find a project that you haven't joined. Tap join, and await the crash. Stack trace

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.inaturalist.android.INaturalistService.request(INaturalistService.java:1430)
at org.inaturalist.android.INaturalistService.post(INaturalistService.java:1329)
at org.inaturalist.android.INaturalistService.joinProject(INaturalistService.java:994)
at org.inaturalist.android.INaturalistService.onHandleIntent(INaturalistService.java:347)
at android.app.IntentService$ServiceHandler.handleMessage(IntentService.java:65)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:61)

Details:

Application version

1.3.6
2
Android version

Android 4.4
2
Device

Brigadier (E6782)
1

Nexus 5 (hammerhead)

This just spins forever 1.3.10 (20)

Where is 'Explorar' in the menu being translated? I don't see it in strings.xml

1. Remove iNat bird icon from top bar throughout, e.g. Edit Observations from:

to:

2. Remove 'iNaturalist' text from top bar throughout, e.g. Observation from:

to:

3. Remove '...' from Observations as in above images

When viewing a guide the single photo chosen for each guide taxon should be the first GuidePhoto by position or id.

'Select Source' below is in English - would this be internationalized in the Device or the app? Likewise, where do the 'Camera' and 'Documentos' translations come from?

Problem with 1.3.15

1. Open app
2. Go to settings
3. Switch to NaturaLista (redirects to Observations)
4. Return to settings
5. Try to navigate to other page (observations, guides, projects) menu buttons are inactive

Kew is interested in using Guide tags as keys and one of the things they've requested are tools for easily reseting the tags (e.g. turning off all filters) and for navigating the user to the 'Recommended next step'

The 'Recommended next step' is calculated based on the tag choice that would maximumly discriminate the remaining set of taxa. Proceeding through these tags using the recommended steps simulates navigating through a dichotomous key

I assume the logic for these would be implemented client side on Android?

Apparently http://www.inaturalist.org/guides/953 crashes the Android app when you try to open it. @loarie can you verify this is happening and/or expand upon this?

Goes to empty carosel

Add a lockscreen widget to enable one-click "Take photo and add observation". This is helpful to take more elusive photographs, rather than:

1. Unlock phone
2. Tap: Add observation
3. Tap: Add photo

This functionality would be similar to the 4.2+ swipe right to engage the camera from the lockscreen.

After the first photo is taken (during which geolocation is taken in the background), the standard interface otherwise applies until "save" is selected, at which point the user is returned to their lockscreen.

If, as a technical matter, after taking the photo the entry can't be added unless the PIN is entered, the photo and geolocation data should be saved and ready to edit in-app after the fact.

Missing a quick way to take-and-tag a photo has been unarguably the primary reason by which I miss photo opportunities for iNaturalist!

Example from stock 4.2.2, swiping right to engage camera:

Observation.find_by_id(1428167).species_guess => "western heart's ease (Viola ocellata)"

I can reproduce this as follows:

Kew is interested in using the tags infrastructure on guides as an identification key. I've played with doing that here: http://www.inaturalist.org/guides/1503

On the server, we will allow users to add tags to Guide Photos. Guide Photos with a tag like Present-in-NoCA?=yes* (ie matching one of the guide tag key-values and followed by an *) will indicate that they should be displayed alongside the appropriate tag value in the filter sidebar on the app. For instance, these images could display as modals when clicking on information icons something like this:

The server side piece of this issue is here
inaturalist/inaturalist#542

Tapping 'Add' from a project checklist should populate the observation form with the project and its observation fields as in the Texas Nature Tracker app but this isn't happening

to reproduce:

1. search for 'Amphibians & Reptiles of Summit County' and open the guide
2. tap on a particular species
   it loads for a second but ends up with a white screen rather than loading the guide taxon page.

This is only broken on Android - not iOS
Reported here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/inaturalist/Z1tw4jGPD0s/discussion

This should happen before xmas 2014.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/upgrading/

Not sure why this is appearing as Great Lakes Fish Finder
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/913030

Remove logo, Add Obs, and Take Picture buttons from sidebar so that it looks like:

If I sign in and add an observation then click 'Select Projects' I see 'No projects found' rather than my joined projects.

See this user report:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/inaturalist/CGKOF6oyYV0

It looks like species names with umlauts, when synced with the server, turn into mojibake. Is this a unicode issue?

When you change the date or time of an observation, save the observation, and then open it again, the values appear unchanged.

If you've already joined a project, show the checklist tab first, b/c presumably you already know what the project is about.

@budowski, is there any chance that crashlytics integration got lost with this latest release?

A number of people have reported that images occasionally fail to sync (e.g. https://groups.google.com/d/topic/inaturalist/TCjYx_hc_JY/discussion). This exception might be related:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.inaturalist.android.ObservationPhoto.<init>(ObservationPhoto.java:164)
at org.inaturalist.android.INaturalistService.postPhotos(INaturalistService.java:761)
at org.inaturalist.android.INaturalistService.syncObservations(INaturalistService.java:379)
at org.inaturalist.android.INaturalistService.onHandleIntent(INaturalistService.java:348)
at android.app.IntentService$ServiceHandler.handleMessage(IntentService.java:65)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:60)

That might mean the photo URI we're storing for the photo points to a photo that no longer exists for some reason, though why that would happen I'm not sure (user deleted photo, user moved photo (?), something else). In the iOS app we actually copy all imported photos into the app's directory, so they're always there regardless of what happens to the original photo, so maybe it's worth adopting that approach here. The downside is bloated disk usage.

Attn @loarie @md5

After syncing observations from the Observations view, the sync icon that is shown on unsynced observations continues to show. I believe this icon should not show after a successful sync. If you go back to the main view and return to the Observations view, the icon goes away.

As:

https://developer.android.com/design/index.html and https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html

NaturaLista logo appear when switiching to iNaturalist network:

This should show the iNaturalist logo

The iNat app is prompting you to use Naturalista on first install, even though language is English, location is San Francisco. Seen on a Galaxy Tab S

In places where we only show a single photo for an observation, we should always show the first photo, that is the ObservationPhoto with the lowest position or the lowest id. I think this might only be on the observations list. Currently it looks like we show the last.

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/inaturalist/6OY62S8nmF8/discussion

Apparently the "Leave" button is close to the "Add" button on the project screen in the Android app. If it's not there already, that leave button needs an "Are you sure?" confirmation dialog.

This crash is still happening in 1.3.10(21) it generally happens for me after I tap sync and turn my attention away from the device. When I return and wake the device up from sleep, iNaturalist has stopped

Here are the errors on Crashlytics:
https://www.crashlytics.com/inaturalist/android/apps/org.inaturalist.android/issues/54c069a365f8dfea15a8eba7

And GooglePlay:
https://play.google.com/apps/publish/?dev_acc=15421172454815845728#ErrorClusterDetailsPlace:p=org.inaturalist.android&et=CRASH&sh=false&lr=LAST_24_HRS&ecn=java.lang.IllegalStateException&tf=Activity.java&tc=android.app.Activity&tm=performRestart&nid&an&c&s=new_status_desc

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