QuickBeer for Android updates/feedback thread

I thought it may be useful to publish QuickBeer updates somewhere more permanent than just the store listing page, so here’s a thread for it

Just published a new version, 3.2.474. This brings an improved country details page with country specific beer culture snippets. The data was found on Wikipedia, and while there was a surprisingly good coverage of countries (76), a lot of interesting countries are also missing. Got beer-banning Iran and Malaysia though so there’s that.

Also removed a warning label from the login page since the login seems to be quite stable now.

Google Play page for the app

As usual, feedback is welcome!

Looks good and works fast. Still hoping for ability to rate, though.

Originally posted by MiP
Looks good and works fast. Still hoping for ability to rate, though.

3.2.475 is a small bugfix release, the country label on brewer details screen didn’t open the country view properly. While I was at it, the city label in brewer screen now launches Wikipedia and tapping the address label will try to open the address in maps.

Login has still an issue where the session expires rather quickly. New version 3.2.480 works around this by automatically doing a re-login in case an operation which requires an active session fails (ticking a beer, or fetching the list of ticks.)

This looks promising, is there a reason though why it thinks I’ve only rated 34 beers, instead of 4.8k?

And why does the search ignore the brewery? For example, last week I rated Barre Alt, but it’s impossible to find this in QuickBeer - there’s too many beers called Barrel something with "alt" in there too somewhere.

And anyway, why does it only list all the names containing "Barrel", and not "Barre"?

Adding part of the brewer name doesn’t make any difference - I can’t even find the brewery with an exact name search!

Thanks for the comments!

Originally posted by BeerViking
This looks promising, is there a reason though why it thinks I’ve only rated 34 beers, instead of 4.8k?

Originally posted by BeerViking
And why does the search ignore the brewery?

Originally posted by apoi
Thanks for the comments!

As of now, the app only supports ticking, not writing the full reviews. The same goes for listing your current ratings -- for now, only the ticks are shown.

You’re right, the search is only for beers and not breweries, which makes some beers a bit hard to find.

I’m not sure what would be the best way to include the breweries in search -- should one search show both beer and brewery results, and show them in similar tabs as the home page has?

Originally posted by BeerViking
Hm, that still doesn’t explain why a search for "barre" turns up a load of names containing "barrel" and precisely none containing the word Barre - most odd!

Update 3.2.512 is just out! What's new:

- Pull-to-refresh to all views that fetch RateBeer data
- Various small bugfixes and cosmetic improvements
- Increased compatibility with old devices: now supporting Android versions starting from 4.2

Originally posted by apoi

Originally posted by BeerViking
Hm, that still doesn’t explain why a search for "barre" turns up a load of names containing "barrel" and precisely none containing the word Barre - most odd!

That’s just how the Ratebeer search works as there is no Google-level relevance logic. I assume it’s finding all beers containing "barre" and taking 50 first ones, sorted by the beer id. Could be something else, but along those lines I think.