Version 1.1 Released!

Hello friends, I am pleased to announce that Version 1.1 is now available on Android and shortly to come on iOS. This update has ended up with more changes than originally planned and hence taken a bit longer, but hopefully worth the wait. Here is a summary of the changes / new features!

Friends / Community

There is so much potential for fun features in this space, and this is just the start, however you will now see a new icon in the bottom right of the screen. This will take you to a new screen where you can send and receive Friends Requests! Once mutually send and accepted, you will see a Leaderboard showing how many plants your friends have eaten. You can also click friends to see some limited information about your connection with them.

Navigation / UI

There is also a mini UI overhaul in this update. I needed a way to handle more than 2 actions for selected plants, so now instead of 2 buttons appearing bottom-right, a new centered button will appear on selection. Clicking this will reveal a fancy new menu with all available actions, including logging / favouriting plants.

Plant Varieties

One of the common requests here in our Discord channel has been for more specific varieties of things like Lentils or Onions. I felt strongly that adding everything in the main list would make it too annoying to browse, so I thought about a different solution. To address this, I have added a new system of grouping plants together where something like a Lentil will have a main entry in the list, as well as potentially many different types of Lentil. So now, when selecting something with other varieties, you will have the option to look at "More types of lentil" (for example).

Sorting / Filtering

Firstly, I have consolidated all the sorting / filtering options into a single Drawer. And then these options have been extended / improved quite a lot. Firstly, your choices will now be persisted correctly on closing / re-opening the app (this was bugging out before). And then I have also found it much easier to browse the list using the extended filtering / sorting options!