What's new screen

[przybylski]

@AndyScherzinger @tobiasKaminsky @jancborchardt
Do we want it? Should introduce that PR here ?

[AndyScherzinger]

😃 I would appreciate a screen like that, the question is do we want an "Introduction screen" or a "What's new"?

I would vote for a intro screen which only gets shown the very first time and never again, not even for updates. What's new would be nice too but would lead to extra work for every feature release since the core team developing new this right now is just the three of us I would argue that we should rather spend our time on features than maintaining the what's new screen for every release plus the feature images we would need for every release. So what'#s new will most likely slow down our dev speed 🚀

[przybylski]

Well, the code is ready and should work just fine it. Last time I tested it, it was working on first run and on update.
owncloud/android#1375
Now with other beta version scheme it will be easier to add this to beta release as well.

[AndyScherzinger]

Version theme?
We still have 2 themes one for the play store with proper versioning scheme and the f-droid beta which uses the release date. So it would work for the Play Store beta programm

[przybylski]

version number scheme: https://github.com/nextcloud/android/wiki/Development-Guide#version-name-and-number

[AndyScherzinger]

...for stabe and release candidate (as in play store beta), else for the Tobias' beta: https://github.com/nextcloud/android/wiki/Development-Guide#development-beta-release

[przybylski]

damn, sorry for confusion.

[AndyScherzinger]

No worries :)
Our Goal is to not need the hardcore beta anymore but to merge fast, test, feature freeze, release to Play beta programm for 2 week, release it as stable

[tobiasKaminsky]

I think it is a good idea to show the biggest changes (if any) on every new release.
Mostly it is just a short text and an image, so it is not that much time and hopefully the PR author supports us.

[tobiasKaminsky]

Otherwise e.g. multiselect is not immediately known to users

[jancborchardt]

»What’s new« is only necessary on really big changes as you already said. A generic »changelog« screen is annoying and people generally don’t care as long as everything works. ;)

Didn’t we have a nice intro slideshow at some point, or was that only iOS?

[AndyScherzinger]

@jancborchardt The what's new screen is actually implemented as a Intro slideshow 💃

[przybylski]

In that case on the weekend I will import that PR here