Right, what the proverbial is up with the menu bar spacing on the latest Android beta?!
Now then, now thenâŚ
I also thought it looked âoffâ. So time for a photoshop analysis. Which reveals⌠
Itâs spot on.
Basically, the image (provided) is 880 pixels wide. The centre therefore is 420 pixels and 420 pixels slices right through the middle of the âPremiumâ Icon. Then working things back & forward between the icons and you have exactly 168 pixels in-between the centre of the 5 icons. Pixel perfection!
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Is there any indication on what the macro stuff all those developers at Monzo are working on at the moment? As theyâre not really communicating that much anymore I donât really have a macro âfeelâ. I remember that theyâre porting Summary to Trends, and I am sure thereâs various minor changes to Flex going on as itâs a money maker. But beyond that⌠whatâs the big picture at the moment?
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I donât think there is one.
The few interviews that the new CEO has done arenât illuminating and at a product level the emphasis seems to be on short term interventions to make money (so Plus, Flex etc).
That aside, I canât really see a bigger picture.
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Do we have a community wish list for things that are lacking? The same things often come up, and there are thread with votes, but no aggregate of those. You do an extensive poll once in a while I guess, which is probably the closes thing to it? Still feels hard to see an overview of âstuff the community keeps asking forâ though, heh.
But besides that, it would be nice to have some sort of idea whatâs coming. Perhaps because Starling plays so nasty theyâre just unwilling to reveal product directions anymore as itâs commercially sensitive and Starling will, inevitably, try to grab the limelight by getting in first, regardless of their lack of innovation.
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â Try this link â Itâs a link to a 
community page, honest, itâs not a rickrollâŚ
which should show the sorted feature requests in order of highest-to-lowest votes.
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Thanks for that, somehow missed it when it was posted.
Itâs interesting to consider which of these are possible vs impossible at the moment. Plus/Premium for Joint Accounts really isnât possiblel any other way, whereas the other most voted for items are more like bugs where thereâs a workaround.
So @davidwalton 's amazing teardowns are back up again.
Aside from Neon cards, an interesting reference to CrowdCube. Given theyâve just binned their app, I wonder if itâs an integration to see investments in the Monzo app? (I might be projecting desire more than reality there though!)
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Where do we get those again? I signed up for an email prompt I think but nothing came through afaikâŚ
The neon cards? If you commented before midnight last night on the other thread, @AlanDoe should have been in touch; or you can reach out to him too
Otherwise itâs refer 2 people
You mean this brilliant public service from @davidwalton ?
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A beginnerâs guide to decompiling APKs
I made a brash statement late last night that stoked the interest of a few members, that decompiling APKs is easy (and you can do it from your phone, iphone too, without needing to install any special software), and if more folks knew that, more would have done it because they lack patience.
Just to be clear, Iâm not going to be teaching you what @davidwalton does, so I hope this doesnât step on his toes too much; decompiling an APK is but a single step of the process to what David does.
What it will do is show you how you can take a look at the Monzo appâs resources and have a peek at some of the various components, including the card graphics from todays announcement.
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You need the Monzo APK. On an iPhone I got mine from here.
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Download the APK and save it to your device. On an iPhone mine goes to the downloads folder of the files app.
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In the browser of your choice, go to www.decompiler.com
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Tap on choose file and upload the APK you downloaded in step 2.
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Wait patiently for the APK to be uploaded and decompiled. Itâll take a minute or so.
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Once itâs decompiled, youâll find yourself at the root of the file tree. Your attention is drawn to the big blue download zip button just above the file list. Tap it.
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Give it a moment to zip and proceed to download it. On my iphone, mine again goes to the downloads folder of the files app by default.
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Locate the zip file in your files manager app (Files on iPhone) and uncompress it. On iPhone, long tap on the zip file and swipe to the uncompress option.
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Once itâs been uncompressed youâll have a folder you can open. Open it and browse to your heartâs content. You might find something cool.
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This is interesting, thank you!
I didnât realise you could do this on the iPhone - weâve only every seen teardowns from Android (first from @nexusmaniac then from @davidwalton) so I kinda assumed that it wasnât possible on Apple!
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I mean itâs still just an android APK youâre decompiling, only my tool of choice here is an iPhone!
Itâd be the same process on an android device, youâd just likely be using Chrome instead of Safari, and whatever androidâs equivalent of the files app is.
Itâs nothing terribly fancy, but if your only goal is to take a peek inside and have a nosey, it gets the job done.
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Ah ha. Sorry, I read it too fast, I assumed you were using the iOS version - but that makes more sense!
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Thanks for this. I never knew this was even possible until now!
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Fantastic instructions! 
Love the fact that the iOS device is simply a âcomputerâ to deal with the decompiled Android .apk file (aka: nothing-to-do-with-iOS)!
Brilliant.
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On the subject of teardowns:
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Found something