Hello, I see frequent updates made to the iOS app, but I rarely see any for the Android app. I understand Apple may be your preference, but please keep in mind us Android users who would love to see the Android app get more love, with feature parity and maybe an improved UI/UX. Sometimes I use Ava Assistant, Showly, or Cinexplore, but it would be awesome if Trakt’s own app were as robust in functionality as the web version is. I voted for this feature in your new Rodamap, and hope this will be given some attention. Thank you!
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I would love to see the Android app get feature parity. For now, I’m using the web app. Go to the website on your phone, it should pop up asking to install.
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Thanks for the feedback! While I don’t have any ETAs to share right now, and I know we’ve got a lot of things that we’re suggesting will be available “soon”, but getting Android up to scratch is definitely something we want to do too!
In the meantime, if you haven’t already, I’d suggest trying out the Trakt Lite PWA (app.trakt.tv, PWA install instructions in the FAQ of this post) and leaving any feedback in terms of use cases that you might be missing in the Trakt > Lite forum. It’s probably the closest experience in terms of UI to the iOS app at the moment which we’re working on to find a balance for a unified platform experience between Mobile (iOS/Android), TV, and Web clients.
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I do think us android users have been left behind quite a bit. Trakt is very iOS centric, but there are those who paid for VIP that have no access to any iOS devices, which does leave one feeling left out in the cold. Like most features announced it’s just more promises that may never come to fruition 
PS. really don’t like Trakt lite, so hope if there really is any Android app development, it doesn’t follow lite!
I think we need a bit more than “I don’t like it” to help understand the use case of it not working for you - for the most part the main screens of Lite and iOS (and Android with a few UI adjustments) are quite similar. It differs in other places. I’d encourage and appreciate a separate post with some more constructive comments on what parts of Lite do and don’t work for you compared to what you’re using now (if that’s the Official Android app, or a third party app, or the website, I don’t know 
). Feel free to tag me and I will do my best to follow up.
Edit: That’s not to say iOS/Android will or won’t be exactly like Lite as we make changes across platforms, but given we’d like to have a unified experience across platforms, it means between what we have right now in iOS/tvOS (which you can see previews of in the App Store - trakt.TV on the App Store), along with Android, Lite and the main website, there’ll be some components or experiences which will end up being similar.
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Can I ask why y’all are pushing the Lite version so hard? It has a better UI, but is missing the functionality of full Trakt.
Also full Trakt has a perfectly functioning PWA, so I just use that.
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Bc they are stuck paying development for it now probably lol
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Android app sucks compared to iOS
Trakt: Why don’t you try this new version that has even more missing features.
Like why was Lite even mentioned in a post about parity with the iOS app?
I wouldn’t call it ‘pushing’ in this particular case, besides you always have the option of the existing web and native apps in their current state which will evolve over time as we go.
There’s a couple of reasons in general for Lite being an alternative to the current Android app, especially when compared to the iOS app, though.
- As suggested, the Android app is currently behind. This is mainly due to resources (aka me) as my experience/focus is iOS and because we have changes pending there’s not much point doing a lot of changes on both apps if things will change soon after (in terms of making the Trakt experience more similar across platforms seeing as the designs are currently quite different for each platform). We do have plans to pick the Android app back up properly, but unfortunately no ETA, which I understand is frustrating.
- The current UI for iOS is closer to Lite, and therefore if people are comparing iOS and Lite directly, then they get to see something similar, at the same time as provide us feedback of missing features or use cases if they’re willing.
Of course that doesn’t stop people from using the existing Android app, but I’m just trying to provide clarity on why it’s hard to compare the Android app right now.
Maybe not “pushing” but certainly stressing to users as often as Trakt can, so it does feel like we must and that the main site will be replaced with Lite whether we like it or not (not in my case). It’s like many things these days, users are never asked before something is implemented, it’s just forced on us no matter the outcry 
. Trakt never used to be like that.
As for being iOS centric. Since the price rise perhaps an android developer should be brought on board to deal with the Trakt app and give us Android users as much love as iOS gets.
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I can see how it might feel like that but considering it’s being worked on either way, if we didn’t suggest trying Lite out as an option then it becomes less useful than people seem to make it out to be.
I tried to explain more of how Lite is being used right now here which is a different topic.
Also as for changes being “forced” and no changes from the outcry, there’s still a fair few things we’re rolling out as beta (or in Lite, which is somewhat a beta experience) and we get feedback before pushing live. And I think there’s been at least a few changes made to compromise. eg. reducing colour changes in the rebranding, extra lists with freemium changes, regional pricing. And with others, such as Lite or Streaming Scrobbler it’s all additional features that you choose to use or not, and generally has no effect on you otherwise. All while being separate to this particular issue of Android being behind as the Android dev time mostly separate to all those. If you have specific issues with other changes, I think those belong in a separate thread.
but otherwise I think I’ve more or less answered the questions regarding Android parity. It’s planned but if I even tried to give an ETA (which is not possible right now) and we not fulfil that it’d be worse than the alternative.
If you have other specific issues - please open a separate thread.