Sneak peek: Official WPCentral app v2.2

WPCentral App for Windows Phone

Before you rush to your telephone, information technology's not in the market simply nevertheless! Notwithstanding I'one thousand pleased to announce that the official WPCentral app v2.2 has been finalised and was submitted for certification ii days ago.

So what's new this time around? We've been focusing on iii key improvements: user feel, error reporting, and 256mb device compatibility. About of these changes are a directly event of feedback or suggestions that our amazing community has sent u.s., and then read on to find out exactly what's changed.

User Experience

Always important to our app's evolution, it's become clear that some features were pretty much hidden to a lot of users if they involved a gesture or a tap-and-hold interaction. And then cardinal functionality like replying to comments, or enlarging fonts tin can now be establish clearly marked within the user interface. Improvements to user experience include:

Links in comments tin can now be followed
New action icons in comments
Option to use larger fonts in articles & comments
Switched to built in social media sharing
Double tap to view in-line images
Automatically ringlet to newly added comments
'Download app' functionality now bachelor to free/trial users
Fixed live tile condign disabled and stuck
Fixed about screen performing the wrong actions
Stock-still scrolling stutter in comments by loading comments in as you scroll
Stock-still drag jumping problems in image viewer
Other minor cosmetic fixes

Error reporting

We've always collected crash reports and taken feedback from our community, but that's not e'er enough. I've congenital a new logging tool, the WPClogger (which I'm affectionately calling 'the clogger') which now handles all reports or requests for aid that are sent to us. If y'all're having an issue which only appears to be affecting y'all, the app will tin can exist told to gather the information it has stored whilst y'all utilise it, then send information technology back to us along with whatever actions you performed. Of course the app will never collect this data unless you lot explicitly specify to, we take your privacy seriously.

Using the new WPClogger for bug reporting and help
Added new aid screen for gathering data and submitting help requests

The WPClogger is besides open source, any developers who'd like to try using it in their apps, or who want to aid meliorate it are more welcome to become involved.

256mb Devices

Having discovered that devices like the Lumia 610 couldn't run our app, we've taken a few steps to go things certified for the new lower price ranged devices.

Retentiveness use & performance optimisations
256mb Tango device compatibility
Adjustable image quality
Tweaked user interface to explicate to 256mb users where limitations utilize

By adding the option to use lower quality images nosotros continue the app's memory usage down whilst speeding upwardly scrolling and reducing your network traffic. Of class you can continue things at full resolution if yous're using a 512mb device, but lower spec devices volition be restricted to 'medium' or 'low' quality images.

That about wraps upward the changes, as you tin tell this release is a trivial light on new functionality and more about refining things since v2 originally went live.

You can download the current version two.1 at the marketplace here now, with the update due early next week. Or if you just accept to come across it in motion and then you can watch the tour of new features below!

Equally always we welcome your feedback, opinions and suggestions, and then mail abroad in the comments beneath.

QR: WPCentral App

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