BBO Mobile App Version 3.50 Comments Thread

[fred]

Version 3.50 of the BBO mobile app is now available for iPad, iPhone and Android devices. You can find out more about version 3.50 here:

 

Click for more information

 

Please post in this thread if you have any questions, suggestions, or comments. Every post in this thread will be read by at least one BBO staff member, but we may not respond to every post that is made.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[LanderBG]

I just updated to 3.5 on my iphone4s . There is some general problem with the resolution or something... The text is a little bit fuzzy and difficult to read. After two three minutes my eyes refused to watch the screen :). The game field also have some similar problems but it is easier to see it on the small font text. I think that there is something with the app not with my eyes because other apps looks fine.

[fred]

I just updated to 3.5 on my iphone4s . There is some general problem with the resolution or something... The text is a little bit fuzzy and difficult to read. After two three minutes my eyes refused to watch the screen :). The game field also have some similar problems but it is easier to see it on the small font text. I think that there is something with the app not with my eyes because other apps looks fine.

Thanks for letting me know. A couple of other people have reported this problem (all using iPhone 4 or 4s).

 

I am investigating and will get a fixed version out as soon as possible. Unfortunately that might not be for a week or two. Sorry about the inconvenience.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[pigpenz]

Thanks for letting me know. A couple of other people have reported this problem (all using iPhone 4 or 4s).

 

I am investigating and will get a fixed version out as soon as possible. Unfortunately that might not be for a week or two. Sorry about the inconvenience.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

for me at last when playing with GIBs I can swipe to see what bids will mean before I make them

couldnt do it very well on previous releases, maybe its from guitar callouses, seriously

 

also can now log onto and pick GIBs for other seats when its rented on my account

 

what version of the GIBs are the ones with the mobile app

[fred]

what version of the GIBs are the ones with the mobile app

Whatever GIBs you choose to rent through the web-client will also be used by the mobile app when you login with the same ID.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[mangurian]

I have 3.4.1 on my Kindle Fire.

 

Is there a place besides Google Play where I can find 3.5 for Android ?

 

A Kindle Fire must be rooted in order to access Google Play.

I am reluctant to play with the Fire firmware.

[mangurian]

I have 3.4.1 on my Kindle Fire.

 

Is there a place besides Google Play where I can find 3.5 for Android ?

 

A Kindle Fire must be rooted in order to access Google Play.

I am reluctant to play with the Fire firmware.

 

Never mind..........I screwed up my courage and rooted my Fire.

However, for the good of BB, BB mobile should be in another Android store

for easy install on tablets which can't access the Google store.

[yonchu]

is it posible to configure bbo app in spanish ?thanks

[fred]

I have 3.4.1 on my Kindle Fire.

 

Is there a place besides Google Play where I can find 3.5 for Android ?

 

A Kindle Fire must be rooted in order to access Google Play.

I am reluctant to play with the Fire firmware.

I will make the latest version available through the Amazon app store within the next couple of days.

 

Sorry about the delay.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[fred]

is it posible to configure bbo app in spanish ?thanks

Right now the app is English-only. Eventually we will make the interface multilingual, but not clear when that will happen.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[toast1]

I downloaded the BBO app for my new kindle fire. It is great to be able to play BBO on a mobile app, but I find myself terrified I will misclick. Wish there was some way to briefly pause for confirmation that the correct call or card was selected. Thanks.

[fred]

I downloaded the BBO app for my new kindle fire. It is great to be able to play BBO on a mobile app, but I find myself terrified I will misclick. Wish there was some way to briefly pause for confirmation that the correct call or card was selected. Thanks.

Click the options button (it looks like a gear) when you are at a table.

 

A window will appear that contains options for "confirm cards" and "confirm bids" (among other things). Switch those options on and press the "Close" button.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[mcdoodle]

I'm enjoying using the Android app on a new tablet.

 

Chat is a bit infuriating though. Words keep repeating themselves unasked, and the cursor jumps to the beginning of a sentence so one's chat becomes incoherent. Is there any setting I can refer to to rememy this, or is it on a list of bugs, or what?

 

Alan

[fred]

I'm enjoying using the Android app on a new tablet.

 

Chat is a bit infuriating though. Words keep repeating themselves unasked, and the cursor jumps to the beginning of a sentence so one's chat becomes incoherent. Is there any setting I can refer to to rememy this, or is it on a list of bugs, or what?

 

Alan

Probably you have the "Swype keyboard" installed on your tablet. Unfortunately this causes problems for our app (and other apps) that so far I have been unable to solve.

 

If I am right about the cause of the problems, you can probably avoid them by disabling or uninstalling Swype (and using the default Android keyboard instead).

 

Sorry about the inconvenience. If this doesn't help, let me know.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[JRG]

I missed this thread (I thought it was to do with a BBO feature, not general comments on the Mobile app) and created a new thread by mistake.

 

http://www.bridgebase.com/forums/topic/57961-wish-list-ipad-app/

[andych]

have tried it on my 4.3" device.

I would suggest that if play could be input using text (S/H/D/C + Akqjt98765432) it would be much more playable. Or is it already supported?

[pio_magic]

So far i am quite happy but a few things are improveworthy.

- trumps are not moved to the left wich confused me justnow where I wanted to ruff;;-)

- when finishing a tournament I can't kibitz

Peter

[andych]

what I mean is actually hand writing input.

For Chinese, we hand write Chinese characters on the screen to the device.

 

 

have tried it on my 4.3" device.

I would suggest that if play could be input using text (S/H/D/C + Akqjt98765432) it would be much more playable. Or is it already supported?

[lycier]

Hi BBO:

There is a question on China Entertainment Forum :

when he use Andriod to play at bbo,there are not any suits symbol in the hand.Here is shootme at below.

 

http://61.133.107.190/1212.jpg

 

 

Now, I don't know how to answer.

[1eyedjack]

Woo Hoo! Having been placed in a pool of potential redundancies following a hostile business take-over in the past week I find out at last that I still have a job.

Celebrated by getting a Galaxy Note.

Man in the shop said that it was Flash-compatible (it isn't) but never mind that, first application downloaded (after security utilities) was, of course BBO Mobile for android, which seems to work without Flash

 

Lovely product. Obviously still being developed at a furious pace. Couple of comments:

 

1) It could just be my unfamiliarity with Android. Options that I am used to having thrust "in yer face", being until today entirely Windows-bound, seem to be obscured until you learn where to find them, but one thing I noticed about BBO is that having launched the program I cannot find any way to exit the program (ie unload it as a resident running app) otherwise than by via the Task Manager. That does not seem good. The app gives you an option to Log Off, but not to "Close" the app.

 

2) The initial menu structure having logged in is slightly unintuitive to someone new to the app., in this respect:

 

I want to play bridge. And Lo! the first item on the list is "Play Bridge". I look no further. Why should I? OK, there are only 4 items in the menu, so it is rather lazy not to read all the menu options before selecting "Play Bridge". So anyway I click on "Play Bridge", and THEN I start to wonder about where I want to play. Is there, in the next menu, a link to "List all tables"? No, there is not. There WAS an option to "List all Tables" in the previous menu (the one which included "Play Bridge"). And now that I understand the menu structure a bit more, whenever I log in wanting to Play Bridge I (now) know to click on "List all tables" rather than (what I want to do) "Play Bridge".

 

Come to think of it, had I read all 4 menu items the first time that I logged on with this app, I probably would STILL have clicked on "Play Bridge" rather than "List all tables" had that been my intention (to Play Bridge) and would still have been disappointed not to find the "List all tables" option then within the "Play Bridge" submenu.

 

Not a major issue. Like I say, I have workarounds for both of the above: Use Task Manager to close the app after logging off, and ignore the "Play Bridge" menu item in favour of "List all tables" when I want to play. But I mention the points only because first impressions are important for those not already hooked on the site.

 

(EDIT) I have in fact managed to instal Flash on the Galaxy Note. Just could not do it from the official auto-instal links because it is not officially supported. And it does seem a bit buggy. And the mobile bbo app is much better on this equipment. But at least I should now be able to play the video footage embedded in the bbc news web pages. Seems to me that bbc should stop using flash if not android-friendly.

[1eyedjack]

Bit of help please. What is the easiest way of displaying a list of kibitzers at a table at which I am seated when using mobile app?

Incidentally as a suggestion for the future it would be nice if the interface permanently displayed the number of kibbers at any instant, which dynamically changed as kibbers came and left. Maybe then you could click on the number to display a list.

[1eyedjack]

Ok re. last post, have found list of kibbers. Click on 'more', then 'who is online', then spin dial to category 'kibitzers'.

A 3-click process. Well 2 if the spin dial is pre-set to kibitzers.

It may just be me but I dislike this.

Mainly because you have to go through the entire process just to tell whether there ARE any kibbers, let alone who they are.

And there is the fact that the list does not auto-refresh when kibbers join or leave.

[1eyedjack]

When logging in it is nice that the local machine remembers (assuming so opted) the id and password from previous login.

For those with more than one log in id it would be nice if it remembered additional id details when used without forgetting previous. Where it has been asked to remember more than one id it would present as default the last used id but with a drop down arrow prompting you to change if desired.

 

This suggestion equally applies to the main web client.

[1eyedjack]

It may be just me doing something wrong but it seems to me that there ought to be a button to force a page refresh whenever there is something on the page which is subject to potential change but which does not get auto-refreshed by the server on a relevant change event.

 

Obvious example is when viewing list of open tables in club before joining one.

 

In case relevant, android jellybean on galaxy note 10.1

 

If in doubt it may be simpler just to have it as a standard button on every page. At worst it may be redundant on occasion, but it saves on the possibility of missing an appropriate occasion

[1eyedjack]

Is there a 1-click option to log off in android app? I have an app-killer app and task manager in jellybean is ok, but still takes several clicks. Within the bbo app it takes about the same number of clicks from sat at table: Back-Yes-Back-Back-LogOff. May have missed a Back.