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Trello Android App Available for Download

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I really hate it when iOS developers make Android apps.

Android has AccountManager. It automatically integrates with the accounts on your device. If you ever present you own UI for a login screen then you are doing it very very wrong.

What should have happened is that on start when I said I wanted to use a Google account it should have shown me the accounts from AccountManager, and then I would have picked and authorised one. No need for passwords etc.

Many many Android users are terrified of apps that ask for AccountManager-related permissions, especially the Manage Accounts permission if an app wants to use Android to store their own credentials. Developers don't want to scare away people who are unsure about certain permissions.

Yup. I just downloaded it and signed in with my Trello account name. I was actually thinking to myself that it seemed like a really pleasant sign-in experience (they provided a nice list explaining permissions). I actually came away happy. Imagine that.

The widely adopted solution is to explain permissions clearly (eg text in app description or link to a web page).

In this case I wasn't even talking about the Trello apps storing credentials in AccountManager - I meant it as a client of the AccountManager to let me use the existing credentials the device already knows.

"Your antivirus software may have flagged the exe in this zip as malware. Please go ahead and click continue to enjoy the great experience we have waiting for you."

This was not for lack of effort. You can only get OAuth creds from Google accounts on Android, and we use OpenID. If you have information otherwise, please tell us: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11347801/use-google-openi...

Updated.

My ulterior motive was to see if you had multi-account support. I have a work trello account and personal one, and needless to say the web experience is dreadful.

Seems OK for an initial version. I think what both the Android and iPhone apps are missing is pinch to zoom so you can expand to see multiple lists at once and drag and drop between them.

Trello dev here. The iOS version will let you pinch to zoom to view lists in a board.

The very first thing I did was try to pinch to zoom out to multiple lists. I've got a nice wide 10.1" screen. A single list stretched over that entire thing looks dumb.

Great to finally have the app, but really looking forward to some updates.

"Your device is incompatible with this software" :(

Guess I'll have to finally install some custom rom on my Desire. I wonder what features they use that would justify dropping the older API. Or maybe they just couldn't be bothered, can't blame them.

Ditto here - what could they possible be using that my Droid Incredible can't support...

I've got CM7 on my N1, gave it new life. Trello app is compatible too.

I'm going for that one too, backing up my sms messages as we speak :)

I worked on this app. We picked a minimum level that seemed to make sense after looking at usage data. We have gotten some feedback that people want support for older devices and we might do that, depending on the development and testing effort.

Please let the iPad version be next. Everyone at our company has embraced Trello and there are a lot of iPads floating around. You can view boards on the web fine, but lose the drag-and-drop niceties in the iPad browser.

The iPad version is on its way, but it's a bit off yet. There's a vastly improved iPhone version that's going to come out first, plus...something else...that the team has been working on.

I was wonderng, has anyone been using Trello for developing client projects - not in house products, but web applications services. I would really like to know about your experiences with Trello vs more traditional style trackers like Redmine/Trac etc.

Edit: Just to be clear, I am not talking about a feature comparison. I understand Redmine has features like Wiki etc which are not in Trello. I am talking only about the Trello vs issue tracking feature in Redmine/Trac/Others .

We abandoned Github issues for Trello and also use it for project management amongst other things.

The single most useful thing is having all items in one place, be they features, administration work, bugs etc. It is trivial to reprioritise and trivial to see what is going to be done and has been done. You can also assign more than one person to a card which is handy sometimes.

The problem with most trackers is that they are project based and you often end up with your backend, frontend, Android & iOS apps being different projects. But often issues and planning span the projects, so you end up with arbitrary information and issues all over the place.

For wikis we've mostly ended up using Google Docs. Having people learn yet another syntax hasn't been helpful, and again you end up with cross project issues and linking.

Sorry I might just be missing something but is there a way to create a new board from the app?

Or is it only to continue working on boards you've started already?

It's in the "Next up" section of the Trello for Android dev board [1]

[1]: https://trello.com/board/trello-for-android-development/4f7a...

We haven't added board creation yet, but it is very high up on our next up list.

Great, thank you. Excellent app otherwise.

The app looks pretty good, but it would be cool if there was a way to see an overview of your board - from what I can tell you can only see one list/column at a time (even if it was only w/horizontal viewing). It would make dragging things back and forth a little easier.

Both this and the iPhone app are nice for a 320px use case, but for tablet, the web app is much nicer. It would be great if the web app supported touch-based drag and drop (jQuery UI touch punch?). Or if the native apps (which do use draggable elements) were multi-col.

I'm not on the Trello team, but I've spoken to them about this, and the short version is that it's tough as nails to do this in a sane way that also works across a wide-enough cross-section of browsers to be worth the dev time at the moment. As far as I grok things, that's part of why they're focusing on native apps. I'll hope someone actually on the team, like hamidpalo, responds with more details.

Thanks, I still love the app, and I really don't use it outside of desktop (during development), but on a touch-enabled device I just instinctively want to start dragging my cards around. And the native app is nice as-is on a phone (draggable between screens).

For WP7 users out there, there is a FOSS app, Trellizzo, that works pretty great.

https://bitbucket.org/JakeGinnivan/taskboards

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/8d58efa1-1852-461c-80...

Anyone using Trello for GTD. What's your workflow?

I do, sort of. I'm just getting off the ground, but I have these cards: Inbox/Unsorted, Next Actions, Waiting On, Ideas, Reference, and Done.

I haven't yet, but I think a lot of people use labels extensively to further organize (e.g. is this to do at #home, #work, an #errand...? will this action take #5mins, #30mins, etc).

I like Zendone. It connects Google Calender and Evernote. But it is still in private beta.

Thanks, just signed up— although I'm wary of moving my GTD life off of Trello. Still, open to it... and I have to say, the Zendone website is beautiful.

Very nice and snappy interface. I hope the login screen will eventually get away from a web view (if possible), but overall loving it.

Really? Rearranging cards seems quick, but I find the list transition animation rather slow and choppy.

Running this on a Gal Nex with Jelly Bean.

I worked on this app and that is the same device and OS that I used, and I am in agreement with you. I think there still might be some performance wins here to make the scrolling smoother, so future releases should be better.

It seems the same as the mobile browser version, except you can move left/right between categories.

Is this a native app or web app?

Native and very nicely implemented too.

I took it apart using apktool to have a look.

It looks like a reasonably well structured Android app - comprehensive manifest, lots of activities, uses resources in preference to assets etc.

They use numerous 3rd party libraries:

* ACRA for crash reporting

* objectweb's asm for an unknown reason

* json-smart for json

* ActionBarSherlock as pretty much every app with an ActionBar does

* Google analytics

* Google cloud messaging (aka c2dm)

* Handmark's pull to refresh library

* https://github.com/iPaulPro/aFileChooser

* http://ormlite.com/ presumably to cache information to a local SQLite database

* http://loopj.com/android-async-http/ for http

* http://ocpsoft.org/prettytime/ for time formatting

* http://viewpagerindicator.com for tabbing interaction

When searching for webviews I only find them used for the login.

When looking at the localisations there are quite a few languages present, but it turns out they are from the library components above. For example if you use Czech the app will be include except the pull to refresh component which will use Czech.

And what does it do?

Just installed it. Compared the IOS version and Android version side by side. Some views look really nice on Android as compared to IOS. For example list view for each individual board- I felt that Android version does a better job of showing the relevant content. On IOS the same view has 40% of screen for content rest is covered with options, paddings and bottom bar button.

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