I agree that the improvements and fixes to BARD Mobile are excellent. One thing that was not fixed and is fairly minor unless you use the Apple earpods for most of your listening as I do, concerns the app not retaining focus when interrupted. By this I mean if you're listening to a book and then get a phone call which you answer with your earpods remote button, after the call ends, pressing the remote button to begin playback again will cause whatever had focus before BARD Mobile to start playing, In my case, it's usually the music app. BARD Mobile is the only app I use which behaves this way. When I'm interrupted using Voice Dream or Audible and other such apps, pressing the remote to begin playback when the interruption is completed always returns to those apps.
I realize this isn't a big deal as the workaround is to go back to BARD Mobile on your iDevice which I do with the App Switcher, press the remote button to start playback, and when the other app starts playing, to double tap the BARD Mobile play button. This will return focus to it. Since things such as phone calls, using the remote to call Siri, and a clock timer going off will cause BARD Mobile to lose focus, it is annoying enough that I wish they had fixed it with this release. Another feature I wish the app had was a share button when perusing the more info of items in one's wish list. I often want to share info with others about something I'm intending to read and this would be a huge convenience. Alan Lemly -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wayne Merritt Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 8:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: BARD Mobile Finally Recieves an Update Another thing that they added was an add/delete to/from wish list button in the more info page for a book. So if you are looking at recent books or magazines, then in addition to downloading the book on the more info screen you can now add it to your wish list. If however you are looking at the more info page for a book that is already in your wish list then that button becomes a delete from wish list button. These are awesome additions IMO, since I don't have to navigate to the BARD website from within the app or on my computer in order to manage my wish list. Also, they fixed the phone/device from locking when a download is in progress. There were other things added or fixed aside from the sleep timer, so those interested be sure to read the release notes in the App Store. I would love to see the ability for BARD to keep track of what you have downloaded or marked on your wish list from iCloud, but that is probably on the road map for future development. If that were enabled then people would not have to keep downloading books between devices that they have already gotten. Wayne On 10/17/15, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm glad to see that the sleep timer was finally added to the recently > updated BARD NLS app. > > Mark > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Follow me on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/wcmerritt My website: www.wayneism.com My book list: www.wayneism.com/books.php -- The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
