🚀 Introducing a New VIP Beta of Trakt for Android

Do you mean add them as your favorite streaming services or add them for automatic scrobble?

Both will be available before the official release but I want to make sure we have the best experience for them; so if you have feedback on this, please let us know.

No ETA but it’s been asked a few times so it’s high on our lists. We’re currently tackling some navigation issues with the new UI and we’ll get back to getting old feature in soon.
Thanks for your feedback!

Tablet UX is going to get some love soon.

We’re working on improving this now.

Do you want to rate something you haven’t marked as watched? Or maybe you want to auto-mark as watched if you rate something?

We’ll probably have a swipe gesture for this. You mean from the episode details, right?

That’s a bad design choice on our part. Will be fixed soon.


Thanks for your feedback!!

We plan to get that back, yes!

Not supported yet but it will be as soon as possible.

No calendar in new app? Wth?

I can’t see this weeks shows, like what aired yesterday and I missed…

I uninstalled the app and installed the classic web as a site.

Really need it!

Hi, about the new app, I have some questions/suggestions:

  1. Will these stats (image 2) be available on the profile page? The old app displays them in the home section, but they’re currently missing from the new app. Currently, the new app displays the “Month in Review” (which isn’t working—at least for me, as you can see in the attached image showing 0 things watched during a period when I watched a bunch of stuff) at the top of the profile page. It would be nice if this was replaced or integrated with the last 30 days/all-time watched stats section.

  1. I previously asked to add an “AMOLED Black” option, but more importantly, the app needs a light mode and the ability to auto-switch between light and dark mode according to user preference.

  2. The old website has an option in settings to display the season art cover instead of the show art cover in the “Continue Watching” section. The old app is missing this option, so it would be nice to have it added in a future update (alongside the settings page, of course).

  3. When you click to go to an episode page of a show, it displays the show art cover occupying half the screen. Instead, I think the better design choice would be to display the episode thumbnail highlighted at the top of the page, just like it is on the old website and app.

  4. Another thing about episode pages is that the arrows in the “classic” app—which let you quickly go to the previous or next episode—are currently missing.

  5. The calendar definitely needs to be available in the new app, and also an option to switch between a “list” or “grid” view of the calendar.

  6. The lists on the new app currently only show movies and are also missing an option to sort from newest to oldest (and other sort options available on the website) and filters. It is also missing the date when the item (movies/shows) was added to the list.

  7. Clicking on the three dots of any item on a list gives me a message that says: “Uh oh… this wasn’t planned. If this keeps happening, please contact Trakt Support.”

  8. The upcoming schedule calendar section should be above the watchlist section on the home page, as it is on the old website.

  9. I know neither the website nor the old app are available in other languages, but I think it’s time to offer language options (PT-BR, Spanish, French) other than exclusively English, including a preference to “Change the names of shows and movies to your language or keep the original (English) ones.”

  10. Hopefully, all settings options from the old app will be available on the new one, including the one that lets you reorder and add/remove new tabs on the bottom bar, that was really nice.

Re-reading the official announcement, this request is already on the plans. It is possible that we will be able to help localize with Crowdin? That would speed up the process, and I would love helping with the translation for my language.

Because the app was rewritten, they didn’t remove it manually, it’s just not back in yet.

I understand your concerns about the rating system, but give the new app some time. Just use the old app until the new one is finalized, I think they’re far from done with developing the new version and I also think they know that.

A quick comment on the 5 stars system. It’s still the full 10-scale system just packed into more compact UI that will enable us to do some more cool things later.

You can still rate 1-10 and see 1-10 ratings (10 being 5 stars and 9 being 4.5 stars and so on).

If you rate something 4 stars you can tap the 4th star again to fine tune it into half (we are currently brainstorming on how to make this more discoverable and easier to use - like with simple drag gesture etc.)

When clicking over a star it should first mark as “half star” so its easier for people to realize it’s a 10 star system. If I’m not mistaken right now it marks as a “full star” when you first click it.

But why changing it to stars? Trakt has always used hearts as rating

New Beta update just hit the Play Store :robot:

Highlights of this version include:

  • marking as watched with different dates
  • comments support for shows/movies/episodes.

but why compress it to 5 stars in the app?

But why changing it to stars? Trakt has always used hearts as rating

We make designs and decisions as a team and this might be better answered on a general feedback threads than the Android implementation specific one :slight_smile:

Can you please open a new topic with your question and why you think hearts should be used for rating and stars for favorites, how it impacts your use case? Thanks!

This is not the point Mike was making.

We take all feedback into account, no matter if VIP or not, in our Product/Design/Business/Tech decisions processes. And again, taking “into account” doesn’t mean jumping on every bandwagon. We can’t do everything everyone is asking for, it would 1) be impossible and 2) end up with a product that doesn’t work for anyone.

This is just not the right topic (the first question Mike was answering) or place (making assumptions and judging our decision process) to discuss this.

I’m not sure this is the right place to ask.

In the new look of the app on android, now it doesn’t show me what I’m currently watching. Going to the trakt site, I can still see it.

Tried reinstalling, deleting storage, getting out of beta and in again, doesn’t help.

This is the only feature that is of value to me in the app.

Thanks.

You probably mean the “Check In” feature.

Yes - it’s not there yet in new app. It will be one of the next things to add.

A new update just hit the store :rocket: More details here:
https://forums.trakt.tv/t/beta-trakt-for-android/86062/4

Thanks!

Thanks. We need notifications of new episodes/premiers and “now playing” as soon as possible, please.