Mobile App Alpha

Feature request: iOS Dynamic Island clock

I would love it if Lichess iOS mobile took advantage of the Dynamic Island. For example if you navigate away from the app while playing a game, the Dynamic Island would indicate whose move it is, and possibly how much time is on your clock.

I would like to build this feature if there is any interest.

@Hvalk111 bro that sounds SUPER awesome

Hello everyone. I'm not sure this is the right place for the beta feedback, I'm still a bit lost between here, Discord, the Google group...

First of all, two things need urgent fixing, IMO, because they are obstacles when playing chess, then to beta testing itself:

1. Turning off piece magnification. Lots of misswipes happen due to the dimension of the moving piece and its displacement with respect to the target square. The old app behaves perfectly with not magnified pieces, while with the beta app you lose games just because of magnification.

2. Play a sound when exiting from the "Waiting for opponent to join..." screen, because an opponent has been found. Sometimes searching for an opponent can be a long wait. You cannot be staring at the screen all the time while waiting, so you get lots of aborted games because you missed the silent arrival of new opponent, risking the ban for too many aborted games. The old app, again, is perfect.

I'm on Android 12, 6.5" display.

On the bright side, thank you thank you thank you for killing the obnoxious grey bar right over the pieces when starting a Fisherandom game, in the old app. Please, don't even think to put it back, never again.

@MaxKSchmidt said in #95:

I found another important feature is missing. You cant activate notation with letters instead of piece-pictures.

FYI this will be fixed in the next release: https://github.com/lichess-org/mobile/pull/854

I don't know if I'm just missing something obvious , as can't find anyone else talking about this; On the Android beta app, there doesn't seem to be any way to view and join tournaments...?

Queen F7 is checkmate

@MarkIorio said in #103:

Hello everyone. I'm not sure this is the right place for the beta feedback, I'm still a bit lost between here, Discord, the Google group...

First of all, two things need urgent fixing, IMO, because they are obstacles when playing chess, then to beta testing itself:

1. Turning off piece magnification. Lots of misswipes happen due to the dimension of the moving piece and its displacement with respect to the target square. The old app behaves perfectly with not magnified pieces, while with the beta app you lose games just because of magnification.

2. Play a sound when exiting from the "Waiting for opponent to join..." screen, because an opponent has been found. Sometimes searching for an opponent can be a long wait. You cannot be staring at the screen all the time while waiting, so you get lots of aborted games because you missed the silent arrival of new opponent, risking the ban for too many aborted games. The old app, again, is perfect.

I'm on Android 12, 6.5" display.

On the bright side, thank you thank you thank you for killing the obnoxious grey bar right over the pieces when starting a Fisherandom game, in the old app. Please, don't even think to put it back, never again.

1. is part of 0.9.6 :) https://github.com/lichess-org/mobile/releases/tag/v0.9.6
   For 2) there's an open PR, so the feature will probably also come soon

hey i found a new bug. since the last updates the accuracy points in the recent games list isnt shown anymore.
Happens on iPhone 15 Pro Max.

is it planned that the mobile app get the inline notation feature? i use it for annotation? and will it be possible to annotate games in the app?

Another nasty thing: cancel a premove is too complicated. There is no reason to change things, the old app behaves perfectly: one single tap anywhere cancels the premove, no exceptions.