Android app feature parity

[cuellarm (Iammo)]

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!

[Subatomic8486 (Alex Kruger)]

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.

[Ohifriend (Tyson Kerridge)]

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.

[Cinhd (Boop Boop)]

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!

[Ohifriend (Tyson Kerridge)]

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.