So right after I released 2.3.2 on Wednesday, a report came in from a user that he couldn’t set a featured image any longer. So that means 2.3.3 is coming soon 
It was an easy fix so will most likely release it on Monday.
Here’s the 2.3.3 build to try over the weekend: http://bit.ly/YsNUSm
Also, Google was very kind and featured the app in the ‘Play Picks’ section of Google Play! Check it out:
The 2.3.2 release is nearly ready. It fixes a few small (but important) issues as well as adds a new feature!
Here’s the build: http://bit.ly/18g0IKS
p.s. The latest commits haven’t been added to git or svn yet because of a problem with the server. As soon as it is back online I will push the latest changes and update related trac tickets.
Note to devs: There’s a new version of ActionBarSherlock out, please update your local version of the library. Using the new version should fix #510 so that’s a win.
Even with all of the major changes in 2.3, it looks like the release went really well! There’s been a few minor issues reported along with a few NullPointerExceptions that showed in the Google Play reports. @daniloercoli also discovered a bug where the app wasn’t persisting certain activities after you left the app.
Issues have been trac’d in the 2.3.1 milestone
All of these issues have been fixed up already and we’re on track for a 2.3.1 release on Monday. Build can be found here if you want to try it out over the weekend: http://bit.ly/11LQpNq
2.3 update is now live in Google Play! Thanks again to everyone that contributed and tested, you guys rock!
Thanks to everyone (over 150 of you!) that tried out the 2.3 beta! There was a lot of great feedback (a.k.a bugs) that came in that we fixed last week. There were actually quite a few changes so it makes sense to do a second beta to make sure it is a solid release.
Here’s a few things that have changed since beta 1:
So, try out beta 2!
Download it here:
As always, post feedback here or in a trac ticket.
It’s about time for the 2.3 beta, which is chock-full of awesome UI updates. ActionBar? Check. MenuDrawer? Check. More Holo goodness? Triple-check.
Because of all the UI updates, we’d really like your help in beta testing this new release. If you could please report in on which device you have tested with, it would really help us as well. In general, please poke around with the new UI and features, and let us know what you like/don’t like. If something is broken, be sure to let us know as well!
Here’s the download link, make sure your device allows installation from ‘Unknown Sources’ so that you can install the app.
While the beta is going I’m going to reach out to the WP-Polyglots to get the translation strings updated.
Here’s a screenie, too:
Very nice!! Looks very good. Will play around with it. Where should I post things I find (i.e. bugs / questions, etc.?) Here?
Yeah, here works. You can also make tickets if the bug is reproducible at http://android.trac.wordpress.org
Noticed that the reader javascript interface wasn’t working on the signed build. I fixed it just now and updated the build at the same link above.
I upgraded and have two main issues:
1) It quit working on one of my sites but not others (even on the same server). The first difference that comes to mind is that my personal site that it broke on (http://geekreprieve.com) is running trunk. What happens is that I get “Sorry, ____ could not be refreshed at this time. Please try again later.” for posts, pages, and comments.
2) I’m on the S3 and there’s an option button built in. It seems that my natural reaction is to try to use that to open the sidebar, and I think that actually makes a lot of sense.
Hmm, are you running many plugins on geekreprieve.com?
Not too many. I’m using:
Akismet
Efficient Related Posts
Jetpack
Public Post Preview
Subscribe To Comments
Twitter Widget Pro
WP Google Analytics
I disabled all of them and tried again…same thing. If you want to hit me up on Skype chat (aarondcampbell) I’d be happy to give you whatever might help track it down.
Works well. I can’t seem to break it. Once the javascript thing was fixed my reader worked (which is mostly what I use the app for). Well done. Are there specific things we should try to test out / functionality to exercise?
Looks lovely, *but* the WordPress icon has disappeared. The icon for the Play store version disappeared from the launcher (Nova Prime) and I couldn’t find it in the drawer either. I was able to add it to the launcher again with a long press and picking the right option. It was in the launcher’s list of apps.
That’s weird, I wonder if the launcher you are using only works well with apps from Google Play?
@willnorris I may be doing this wrong, but I started looking at attaching a static menu drawer for x-large screen tablets when in landscape orientation. From what I could tell from the menu-drawer library, you have to reattach it in order to make it static or not.
So I ended up adding this code when the orientation changes:
@Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
if ((getResources().getConfiguration().screenLayout & Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_MASK) == 4) {
// on a x-large screen device
View content = mMenuDrawer.getContentContainer().getChildAt(0);
mMenuDrawer.getContentContainer().removeView(content);
if (newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE) {
mMenuDrawer = MenuDrawer.attach(this, MenuDrawer.MENU_DRAG_CONTENT, Position.LEFT, true);
} else {
mMenuDrawer = MenuDrawer.attach(this, MenuDrawer.MENU_DRAG_CONTENT);
}
mMenuDrawer.setContentView(content);
updateMenuDrawer();
}
super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
}
Any ideas for a cleaner solution?
how about add a check for screensize inside of createMenuDrawer(), and use that to determine if menu should be attached statically? Or is there something else I’m missing?
Yeah, I have similar code in createMenuDrawer() as well but it will keep the drawer state after rotating. What I was trying to do was to mimic how the YouTube app will permanently show the menu drawer when the tablet is in landscape, but then hide it again if the device is rotated back to portrait.
I went ahead and committed this in r1001.
While testing @kokejb‘s preview patch this week I came across an issue when parsing the blog options JSON that we are using in the app. After a bit of debugging, I think that the org.JSON library isn’t going to cut the mustard for our JSON needs. It doesn’t appear to be able to correctly parse objects within other objects. Using JSONObject.toString() for the map returned in the wp.getOptions call returns what should be an object as a string:
{"software_version":"{value=3.6-alpha-23334, readonly=true, desc=Software Version}","blog_public":"{value=1, readonly=true, desc=Privacy access}","post_thumbnail":"{value=true, readonly=true, desc=Post Thumbnail}"}
I discovered Gson this week which gives you the expected results:
{"software_version":{"value":"3.6-alpha-23334","readonly":true,"desc":"Software Version"},"post_thumbnail":{"value":true,"readonly":true,"desc":"Post Thumbnail"},"blog_public":{"value":"1","readonly":true,"desc":"Privacy access"}}
I think I will add the Gson library since it fixes the issue and will set us up for better JSON support in case we start using the Jetpack REST API in the app more in the future.
+1
While working on #411 I also took a crack at modernizing the post editor view. Changes:
I’m not convinced that the ‘Save’ disk icon is best there, but I’m not sure what else would convey ‘Publish’ in an icon format
Thoughts?
Oooh, very nice to see. Definitely fitting in better with the Android design patterns. Great work!
Looks very nice. Since you’re at it, make room for a “Preview” button somewhere
Trying the beta, You rock man!