Freegle Mobile app

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The Freegle Mobile phone app provides access to Freegle Direct (FD) groups on Android and iOS phone and tablet devices. The app is currently in development. Supported devices:

  • Android 4.0+
  • IOS 6+ ie iPhone 3GS onwards

The Android development build can be installed by anyone with the link; installation of apps from unknown sources must be enabled

The iOS development build can only be installed on devices which are known to the developer ie where the UDID has been provided. Use iTunes to find your UDID: http://whatsmyudid.com/ or this technique http://get.udid.io/

Current issues...

  • Facebook sign in works. If you register for first time using Facebook then you have to log out and sign in again before you can join a group.
  • Google and Yahoo sign in or register not implemented yet
  • If you use Google or Yahoo to sign in to Freegle Direct you can create a password at https://direct.ilovefreegle.org/ using the forgot password functionality.
  • The app has no settings or lost password functionality so it sends you to the web version.

Functionality

Note: The 4th and 5th found groups are currently forced to be the Freegle Playground and a Mobile app test FD group.

  • First time user: find nearest FD groups, preview items, register using Facebook or email/password and join group
  • Existing user: Sign in using Facebook or email/password. Google and Yahoo sign in not supported yet.
  • View current posts, inc search (for one word) and All/Wanted/Offers. New message count shown; Load more messages. Shows photos on post (tap to expand). Shows map (tap to open Google maps in browser). Reply (if not your post).
  • Send OFFER or REQUEST to one of your groups with optional photo. If offline, then post is queued for delivery when online.
  • My posts shows the correspondence about the posts you started (with unread messages highlighted)
  • View current settings
  • Leave a group, join another group
  • Send contact message to group owner. If offline, then message is queued for delivery when online.
  • Send Chris App Feedback - includes the internal log.
  • Sign out and Unsubscribe
  • "About Freegle" page
  • "Disclaimer" page
  • "How to Freegle" page
  • "Thanks" page
  • FD status report available
  • App configurable at runtime
  • Logs anonymous app use with platform info at startup

Confirmed OK devices

  • Fairphone Android 4.2.2
  • Nexus 7, Android 4.4.4 and Android 5.0.2
  • iPad 2, iOS 8.1
  • iPhone 3GS, iOS 6.1.6
  • HTC One, Android 4.4.3
  • Axius Q8, 4.1.1
  • Versus Touchpad 7, Android 4.0.4

Not working devices

Screenshots

Start up screen Finding a group Viewing posts and asking for a bed Posting an OFFER Replying to respondents Signing in Registering