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Liturgy of the Hours for iOS
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Remember date + prayer (last opened) #28

Open breviar-sk opened 9 years ago

breviar-sk commented 9 years ago

After you restart the application (or after it was stopped by iOS) it opens only to the current date. Maybe it would be good to have an iOS specific option "Remember last opened prayer".

Some users would prefer to open the last open "page" - prayer. It does make sense - user continues in prayer where he/she left off - which need not coincide with the actual date (e. g. evening prayer interrupted before midnight which is completed after midnight).

gyim commented 9 years ago

Good idea - and I think this should not be an option, but the default behavior: Apple wants apps to be written in a way so that users do not notice app start/stop, they should have the feeling that all apps are running all the time. This is why they do not like splash screens either: they want users to experience an app switch, not an app startup. Of course, this is tricky sometimes, so luckily for us, they do not reject apps that do not have this :)

So we should definitely remember the last opened page, and if possible, the scrolling position, too. I would not add this to v1.1 though, it is not trivial to implement this.

kominak commented 8 years ago

I wonder what's more frequent scenario - a prayer interrupted during midnight, or wanting to have an up-to-date (today's) prayer picker so that he doesn't have to go back to the home screen, change the date, and pick a proper prayer (most likely different than the one opened last time).

I probably wouldn't bother with this at all... or let's ask our users somehow :)

@breviar-sk What if we prepared a simple survey (using google spreadsheets, for example), to ask our users about some most common scenarios? We can display an alert and ask them politely to fill in the inquiry... or add a link to the bottom of the main screen to open the inquiry.

borazslo commented 8 years ago

@komiak: I can easily reach out the Hungarian priests with a survey.

kominak commented 8 years ago

@borazslo I guess we only need those who use our iOS app, and not only priests, but all users. Not sure what portion of them are priests in Hungary. If, say, more than 50%, then it would be really helpful :)

If @breviar-sk and @gyim also agrees with this idea, we can open a separate ticket to collect useful questions :)