Lots of cool iOS features, not for Android?
Jorgen Bodde
Hi,
I read three neat items on the MLO blog, exclusive for iOS it seems. Flags, counters, deletion / archiving of items, which all sound useful for all mobile users. Is there any timeline if these features are going to be ported to Android? I understand platforms diverging as the codebase is most likely in a different language, but wouldn't it be more fair to release the same feature semi-parallel across all devices?
- Jorgen
Elizabeth Lindsay
Jorgen Bodde
Hi Elizabeth,
If you don't use flags, that does not mean they cannot be useful for others ;-)
If you look at the blog here http://blog.mylifeorganized.net/2016/05/mlo-ios-archive.html you see in settings a "statistics" tab. I don't see that in Android. The option "Archive / purge tasks" is also not present. As for using the Windows version to compensate for missing features, not everyone who already ripped out an arm or a leg paying for the mobile app, has done so to buy the Windows counterpart. And, I run Linux exclusively anyway.
If you are sure that statistics counters are in the Android version, could you show me where? I might just not look in the right place. For all other options, I stand by my question, why the difference in features for platforms, and will they ever be added to the Android version?
- Jorgen
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Dwight
Hi, Jorgen.
The last major release of MLO for IOS was a long time ago, I think that it might have been in 2014. After that release was stabilized, MLO developers turned to Android, and Apple users watched as an impressive array of new features were rolled out to Android users. The release now being developed for IOS brings those users the features that Android users have had for a while now, and also some new ones that we Android users don't have. My guess is that it's likely that after this Apple release stabilizes, Android will catch up. I know that there is a different codebase for Android and Apple; I believe that the devs tried for a unified codebase but found it infeasible. I don't know the details but maybe you can find it in the blog somewhere. I agree with you that it would be nicer if the MLO devs could roll out new features across Apple and Android in a more nearly synchronized fashion, and I think that the delay has gotten shorter and will probably continue to get shorter but I am not really expecting it to get short enough to make you happy.
To be fair, you should recognize that the features you are looking at are not available on Apple either. You are looking at announcements of features in development for a future release on Apple and comparing them to the current market version of Android.
For what it's worth, I can confirm that the ability to create/set/clear flags is not yet available on Android, although the current Android version is able to create views that include or exclude tasks with specified flags. Also, now that you are being more specific I can confirm that the statistics page and the purge/archive feature are not available on Android, although your earlier references to "counters" and "delete" functionality could be confused with currently available functionality.
And finally, I was interested to learn that you had to "rip out an arm or a leg paying for the mobile app." MLO/Android is free, and in my opinion the free version is among the very best task managers available. You can upgrade to the Pro version for about $25USD. Do you hold your arms and legs to such a low value that you would rip one out for $25USD?;-)
-Dwight
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Jorgen Bodde
Hi Dwight,
I did not know that the last stable release for iOS was so far behind from the Android version. It kind of makes sense to "make up" for lost times, and pack some exclusive features to make the iOS users feel a bit more special ;-)
I am by no means impatient or unhappy with release times, I was merely curious, since there were three feature updates for iOS (without the knowledge of iOS being so far behind), and I read panic posts about people thinking the Windows version got abandoned. So I simply wanted to know more about the release schedule. I did file some improvements and bug reports to the email provided in the app store, and was always notified politely that they would take it in consideration, so who knows...
Coming from a developers background, I know how smaller teams operate. It is not an easy task to deploy and maintain apps for a lot of platforms, and knowing how easy it becomes an overwhelming task to deal with bugs on all of them, and a incompatible code base to boot, I would not be surprised they are truely understaffed and working their hardest to push out releases for whatever platform has focus. Kudos to them!
And about the price, it is by far the most expensive app I ever bought. Normal apps range around 2 - 6 dollars, and MLO2 was 25, but what got to me was that to utilize it's full potential across multiple devices, you have to subscribe to cloud sync as well (I expected a Dropbox solution). So yes, in that respect it costed me an arm and a leg (figurably of course).
But, no complaints about the existing functionality and if MLO is worth the price, I love the app. It does have some rough edges and I would have liked a better walk through and best practices manual for the android app (steep learning curve), and of course with a higher price somehow I did expect a bit more tight feature schedule, but it is simply the best task tracker there is, and what won me over was the ability to make tasks dependent on each other. Awesome feature. The projects view is awesome as well, there is a great satisfaction knowing how far along projects are, and see progress in work which otherwise would catch more dust than work :-)
Thanks for taking the time to explain.
With regards,
- Jorgen
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