Monzo for Android - Teardowns & Deep Dives 👨‍💻

[Chris_Bigg]

@nexusmaniac

(for the v3 UI… , it’s wild!!)

Hopefully not too far away

[awjdean]

@adinus

I wonder if charity pots include giftaid

Someone asked this when Charity Pots first came out and a Monzo staff member said they wouldn’t in the first iteration.

[Rat_au_van (Em)]

[Rika (Scarlet)]

To be fair, many of these are critically important points to resolve before you close any bank account.

[nexusmaniac (Marcus, Backend Engineer 🛠️)]

Version: 2.44.0

Changes:

<string name="app_icon_name_plus">Plus</string>

There’s going to be a Monzo Plus app icon!! It will be based on the colour you choose More on this in the assets post!

<string name="close_account_close_joint_button">Close joint account</string>
<string name="close_account_close_personal_button">Close personal account</string>
<string name="close_account_complete_body">If you need a bank statement in the future, just drop us a message at help@monzo.com. Thanks for being a Monzo customer!</string>
<string name="close_account_complete_title">We’ve closed your account</string>
<string name="close_account_confirm_body">We’re sorry to see you go, but if you’re really sure then tapping the button below will close your account.</string>
<string name="close_account_confirm_title">Last chance…</string>
<string name="close_account_feedback_continue">Continue</string>
<string name="close_account_feedback_hint">What do you think of Monzo?</string>
<string name="close_account_feedback_send_and_continue">Send Feedback and Continue</string>
<string name="close_account_feedback_subtitle">Is there anything we could have done better? Are there any features we’re missing? We’d really appreciate your feedback so we can improve the Monzo experience for everyone.</string>
<string name="close_account_feedback_title">We’d love your feedback</string>
<string name="close_account_keep_button">I want to keep my account</string>

<string name="close_account_title">Close Account</string>

Last week it was regular account closure, now it’s Joint Account closure Nice to have options

<string name="monzo_plus_extra_information">Monthly payment</string>
<string name="monzo_plus_manage_action">Manage Monzo Plus</string>
<string name="monzo_plus_title">Monzo Plus</string>

More info ‘somewhere’ within the app for those with Monzo Plus

<string name="permission_ghost_login_label">Ghost Login</string>
<string name="permission_ghost_login_name">co.uk.getmondo.GHOST_LOGIN</string>

<string name="send_money_ghost_unavailable">Stop right now</string>
<string name="send_money_ghost_unavailable_description">Hey you, sending money is disabled. Gotta slow down baby, in the ghost app.</string>

Removed.
Monzo have contacted the Ghostbusters and ensured that there will be no more spirits logging into your lovely Monzo account

<string name="pot_charity_donation_toggle_desc">Donate this Pot to charity every month</string>

<string name="pot_donate_to_charity_description">"We’ll donate your Pot balance to your chosen charity overnight on the last day of every month.

We’ll remind you before each payment and you can toggle off donations at any time before midnight on the last day of the month. 

%s"</string>

New Charity Pot description

<string name="target_remaining_percent">%1$d%% left of %2$s budget</string>
<string name="target_remaining_to_spend">%s left to spend</string>

Some new timings on budgets, perhaps? I’m not sure yet

<string name="your_monzo_subtitle">Discover your next steps to becoming a Monzo pro. Complete tasks to unlock new ones and earn badges.</string>

Monzo Pro Badges to unlock

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Deep Links:

<string name="deep_link_custom_icons">custom_app_icon</string>
<string name="deep_link_pots">pots</string>

monzo://custom_app_icon
monzo://pots

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Assets:

New!
(Separate post )

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Feature Flags:

After a long hiatus… They’re back! The, only mildly, painful task of wiping my phone & setting everything back up has been worthwhile I can now do many things I couldn’t before (I’m rooted again)

<boolean name="business_account_cass" value="false" />

Business CASS

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There’s another post to follow… Stay tuned

[nexusmaniac (Marcus, Backend Engineer 🛠️)]

Unfortunately this will be done in dribs & drabs! But I’m pretty busy at work

Here’s your first look at the AWESOME stuff to come

[SouthseaOne (Michael)]

The Monzo logo lives on (for now)!

They look great

[nickh]

They look great to be fair…

Which is even more annoying, because I don’t think all of these little things will add up to me buying Monzo plus, so I end up just resenting the fact some cool little “freebies” are behind a paywall…

[JustJordds (Jordan)]

Next it’ll be new Forum Flairs depending on if you are a Monzo Plus member or not.

That “fan-boy” package is looking cool now

[gmclean]

Badges to unlock? Hmmmm… but why??

[Haitch]

My guess is that it’s a way of gamifying discovering & using all of Monzo’s features. Not sure why that would be part of Monzo Plus though

[awjdean]

@Haitch

Not sure why that would be part of Monzo Plus though

Looks like it’s related to Your Monzo not Monzo Plus.

[Haitch]

In which case I think I’m correct

[anddh (Andy Hughes)]

Just change them in a third party launcher?

Edit: Spot the icon

[nickh]

iOS

[anddh (Andy Hughes)]

Shame!

[nexusmaniac (Marcus, Backend Engineer 🛠️)]

Ok, carrying on from the 2.44.0 teardown

Assets:

A cog for managing ‘things’ (Replaces manage_loan - It’s just a rename so prepare to see it in more places

New app launcher background for Monzo Plus icons

We’ve got
ic_app_plus_hot_coral.webp
ic_app_plus_lagoon_blue.webp
ic_app_plus_midnight_sky.webp
(in that order)

Depending on which card you choose, you’ll get a different app icon (would be my guess!)

Featuring a very sad Hot Chip

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[Rat_au_van (Em)]

I don’t like seeing Hot Chip sad

[Jackcrwhitney (Jack)]

I hope sad hot chip only appears if you choose to close your account

[nexusmaniac (Marcus, Backend Engineer 🛠️)]

You’re on the money!

sget v1, Lcom/monzo/closeaccount/na;->ic_hot_chip_sad:I

Closing an account will invoke sad Hot Chip