# Beta testing the Android mobile app
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-testing-the-android-mobile-app/50165
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2016年九月14日 22:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-testing-the-android-mobile-app/50165 "2016-09-14T22:27:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [2016年十月4日 08:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-testing-the-android-mobile-app/50165/101 "2016-10-04T08:56:12Z")
can you confirm me those issues have been fixed please ?
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [2016年十月4日 17:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-testing-the-android-mobile-app/50165/102 "2016-10-04T17:45:47Z")
Yes, all the visual issues have been resolved. The only outstanding issue I have is the draw over other apps permissions, which it certainly appears that @sam removed it from the permissions list, but it still shows when installing the app.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2016年十月4日 21:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-testing-the-android-mobile-app/50165/103 "2016-10-04T21:26:23Z")
If that’s the case some Android dependency they are using must be requesting the ‘draw over other apps’ permission… perhaps it is a consequence of wrapping Google Chrome?
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [2016年十月4日 22:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-testing-the-android-mobile-app/50165/104 "2016-10-04T22:24:13Z")
Possible that it is a dependency, but I doubt it is Chrome. Chrome itself doesn’t request the permission - calling it shouldn’t suddenly require it out of the blue.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016年十月4日 22:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-testing-the-android-mobile-app/50165/105 "2016-10-04T22:24:55Z")
Most likely just a build issue, I will sort it out
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### Author:  [@D-ABNJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/D-ABNJ)
#### Post date: [2016年十月5日 13:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-testing-the-android-mobile-app/50165/106 "2016-10-05T13:43:42Z")
I still would like to test this…
Android 6.0.1
Samsung GALAXY A5 (SM-A500FU)
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [2016年十月5日 15:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-testing-the-android-mobile-app/50165/107 "2016-10-05T15:47:24Z")
@sam do you have any data from early testers about how many sites they have configured?
For context on my feedback, I’ve only got two set up, and I do not get a ton of notifications.
Here are things on my wish list for this app:
1. I would like to be taken directly to the relevant post with I click on a notification, rather than going to the app’s site list and then navigating to the site.
2. I would like the site to load faster. As it stands, it’s more efficient for me to just keep a chrome tab loaded with the site than to open it from within the app.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [2016年十月5日 16:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-testing-the-android-mobile-app/50165/108 "2016-10-05T16:11:58Z")
> [@mcwumbly](#):
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> I would like the site to load faster. As it stands, it’s more efficient for me to just keep a chrome tab loaded with the site than to open it from within the app.
> [@Low bandwidth users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/low-bandwidth-users/34620/6):
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> We are looking at improving first load time in various ways in 1.8 or maybe 1.7 depending on timing.
We could also preload the first site, but that would be cheating 😛
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016年十月7日 07:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-testing-the-android-mobile-app/50165/109 "2016-10-07T07:25:33Z")
Let’s try latest, I just tested and it says “it requires no special permissions” so yay 🎊
Turns out dependencies were making us ask for permissions we do not need, so our manifest now evicts that bad permissions.
see also:
[https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/5886](https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/5886)
Additionally:
- I made it so chrome tab is a _tiny_ bit faster by keeping a session around
- app does not quit so often (at least in dev)
There are some glitches I know about that we will sort out next week.
Regarding @mcwumbly “I want it to load faster”, I hear you loud and clear. I saw this in action when @tgxworld was demoing the issue to me. I am unsure if chrome tabs will ever be able to cache to the degree a leaving a tab open in chrome does.
I will look at splitting up the notifications and grouping next week.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016年十月14日 05:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-testing-the-android-mobile-app/50165/110 "2016-10-14T05:44:37Z")
I just did a new release today:
- Fixes occasional blank screen on launch
- Introduces new user api, this API defines the concept of scopes, you no longer have to grant full write access to the app.
- Upgrades internal components
- Fixes a case where the search field would clear after submit
**note** the change to the app is breaking, it will only work on the absolute latest releases of Discourse. I am deploying stuff internally now.
Overall, I feel the app is in a good enough shape to go in the app store now, our internal APIs are all good and the app is feature complete enough for a v1.
On the android front I would like to get around to notification grouping, so you can expand the group of notifications and click on each, however I don’t feel this feature is blocking.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [2016年十月14日 05:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-testing-the-android-mobile-app/50165/111 "2016-10-14T05:44:56Z")
@sam can you confirm if this is safe to update for Stonehearth?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016年十月14日 06:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-testing-the-android-mobile-app/50165/112 "2016-10-14T06:14:22Z")
Yeah, I just deployed Stonehearth and the business tier.
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### Author:  [@ljpp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ljpp)
#### Post date: [2016年十月14日 07:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-testing-the-android-mobile-app/50165/113 "2016-10-14T07:03:04Z")
If the target forum contains ads, does the app render them too? If not and this app is released for the general public, that is a potential monetization leak.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [2016年十月14日 07:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-testing-the-android-mobile-app/50165/114 "2016-10-14T07:04:40Z")
The app doesn’t render the site, Chrome does. So if you ads appear in Chrome on Android, the app doesn’t change that. The app simply provides a clean _notification system_ for mobile, with easy direct access to the mobile version of your Discourse instance.
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### Author:  [@thomasschmit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thomasschmit)
#### Post date: [2016年十月17日 18:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-testing-the-android-mobile-app/50165/116 "2016-10-17T18:04:50Z")
@sam, I would love to test this app. Is it possible?
Thanks 🙂
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### Author:  [@bekicot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bekicot)
#### Post date: [2016年十月18日 19:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-testing-the-android-mobile-app/50165/117 "2016-10-18T19:05:19Z")
I’d love to have one on my android. I though to create one 🙂 .
Happy to found one.
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### Author:  [@vchuravy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vchuravy)
#### Post date: [2016年十月20日 13:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-testing-the-android-mobile-app/50165/118 "2016-10-20T13:05:37Z")
I would like to sign up for beta testing the android up.
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### Author:  [@robbyoconnor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/robbyoconnor)
#### Post date: [2016年十月21日 23:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-testing-the-android-mobile-app/50165/119 "2016-10-21T23:01:05Z")
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### Author:  [@glynhudson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/glynhudson)
#### Post date: [2016年十月22日 00:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-testing-the-android-mobile-app/50165/120 "2016-10-22T00:01:17Z")
Looks awesome 👍. Any more beta invites going spare? 😉
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### Author:  [@junaid\_pk14](https://meta.discourse.org/u/junaid_pk14)
#### Post date: [2016年十一月1日 07:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beta-testing-the-android-mobile-app/50165/122 "2016-11-01T07:00:18Z")
Hello @sam,
i want to test app, please send me invites.
Regards,
Junaid
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