Kobo iOS apps future version request thread

[jamadams]

Absolutely. It would have to work on them all. Is every Kobo device wifi enabled?

Dropbox and public folders would work but that would probably be too convoluted to non-technical users, and the beauty of the Amazon system is its seamlessness. I'm not sure. I guess Amazon has the advantage of massive server infrastructure. I like the way that you can email a book to your Kindle account and sync it to every device. I think Amazon is the only one to nail this function so far.

[Sregener]

Originally Posted by Sharkus

When the app has been suspended for 5 minutes or longer, we will check for an updated cloud bookmark, and this will cause the refresh you see, as potentially you may be in a different position in the book...

I just purchased a Nexus 7, and find it interesting that the Kobo app on Android does not have this annoying refresh problem.

[Sharkus]

Originally Posted by jamadams

Absolutely. It would have to work on them all. Is every Kobo device wifi enabled?

Dropbox and public folders would work but that would probably be too convoluted to non-technical users, and the beauty of the Amazon system is its seamlessness. I'm not sure. I guess Amazon has the advantage of massive server infrastructure. I like the way that you can email a book to your Kindle account and sync it to every device. I think Amazon is the only one to nail this function so far.

The original Kobo reader wasn't WiFi enabled, so you could only sync with the desktop app.

[Sharkus]

Originally Posted by Sregener

I just purchased a Nexus 7, and find it interesting that the Kobo app on Android does not have this annoying refresh problem.

v5.8 should improve things. As for why Android does not have the problem, it is probably loading books in a different way to iOS, though I could be wrong.

[Sharkus]

Kobo v5.8.1 for iOS is now available in the App Store

What's New
★ Bug fixes and performance improvements

New in 5.8:

★ Newly re-designed iPhone reading menus
★ Re-designed custom shelf management on iPad
★ Greatly improved chapter loading times
★ Improved support for read-along content
★ Home page layout optimized for iPhone 5 & new iPod Touch
★ Better control over which activities you share with friends
★ Better handling of bookmarks when reading across multiple devices
★ Significant stability improvements & bug fixes

[Sharkus]

Kobo v5.9 for iOS is now available in the App Store

What's New
★ Rate and review books in your library

★ Improved performance for illustrated books

★ Re-designed book overview, table of contents, annotations, and per-book stats pages (iPad)

★ Brought back the ability to lock the screen in landscape orientation (iPhone/iPod Touch)

★ Stability improvements and bug fixes

[Sharkus]

Kobo v5.9.1 for iOS is now available in the App Store

What's New
★ Redesigned table of contents and annotations pages for the iPhone and iPod touch
★ View your reading stats for individual books on the iPhone and iPod touch
★ Community stats are now available on book overview pages
★ Improved Twitter integration
★ Stability improvements & bug fixes

[Sharkus]

Kobo v5.10 for iOS is now available in the App Store

What's New
★ Added support for Japanese content
★ Faster and more responsive reading experience for comics
★ Changing font sizes works even better than before
★ Bug fixes and performance improvements

[Sharkus]

Kobo v5.11 for iOS is now available in the App Store

What's New
• Redesigned dictionary feature which now conveniently displays as you select a word
• Bug fixes

[Nightyume]

Umm, I saw some comments regarding the Android app, can we make comments/requests for the Android version here too? One thing that I miss is in the library section the ability to look at only my complete books like there is also a section for only previews (since I have quite a few samples on my "to check out" list and they clutter things up a bit).

I can understand the difficulty in setting up a separate Android app thread or even taking a lot of android app requests here as the iOS version is more advanced and might already take into account/have fixed/have added features which will hopefully trickle down to the android version, making android observations obsolete. But I do have one more observation, the dictionary engine on Android is inferior to the Kobo Glo. When I was testing out the dictionary I highlighted "enemies" and it said there were no results for it and showed me the definition for enmity or some such (the google and wikipedia windows did work correctlly and show definitions for enemy).

As for the comments that it would be great to sync sideloaded ebooks, I personally would love it as well and have to say that I'd personally be fine with sideloading the books myself. Maybe the devices/apps could use hash tag info to verify that it is the same file/book and then undergo the syncing process for pages (and hopefully annotations too).

[Sharkus]

Hi,
Thanks for the feedback. It's always appreciated.

If someone wishes to setup a similar thread for Android then I don't think it'd be a problem, it might actually make more sense

[Sharkus]

Kobo v5.12 for iOS is now available in the App Store

What's New

• Our new reading gestures let you pinch to re-size text and swipe up/down with two fingers to adjust brightness
• Quick Flip now gives you more control when skipping pages and chapters
• The main navigation menu has an updated, cleaner design