Why Monzo think Android app is on par with iOS

From what I’ve seen, Android can select a number of weeks etc, iOS can’t, it’s just every day, every week, every month or every year. Not good if you need quarterly or fortnightly options

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Sneak peaks is a section of the app, not a link to the forum btw but with making Monzo it’s not really needed now, there’s more up to date info on that twitter

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Fair enough :slight_smile:

iOS have a whole toolbar UI with multiple filter options (category, people (?), amount greater than/less than, attachment, locations etc) whereas Android just has a plain text input.

As I remember, iOS had a menu which showed the sneak peeks, separate to the community links. It was promised that this was “coming soon” to Android. Here’s the blog post: https://monzo.com/blog/2018/05/09/sneak-peeks/

On iOS, I think there’s an information popup on the graph which shows the balance/spent at that particular point. This does not exist on Android. I don’t know if it’s just Android, but the graph annoyingly bounces/snaps when scrolling.

Also - there’s no widget for Android. I understand the iOS one is buggy, but at least one exists :slight_smile:

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It might have changed since I used the Android app, but the search function on Android was far, FAR less powerful than iOS.

Merely having a “Search” bar does not make it equal or “parity”.

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That’s a fair point - the iOS version does have it’s fair share of bugs however so these both may end up getting some love in future.

I believe this is on Android - it’s at the bottom of help :slight_smile:

It doesn’t need to - the same information is displayed :slight_smile: As you scroll back you’ll see the balance/spent today update.

I don’t know when/if we would do an Android widget - I think widgets in general have become a lot less popular.

These are the same options as on Android :+1:

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“may” :cry: I would say Android search needs some love, no matter how buggy the iOS one is.

Just the link to the community section, yes. But not the built-in functionality as described in the blog post.

OK! :+1:

That’a a shame :confused:

Just wanted to chime in with some answers here.

Search on iOS is fairly broken. It’s buggy, gets stuff wrong, and needs a complete re-write. There’s no point us recreating a broken feature on Android. When we re-do Search, we’ll do it on both platforms.

Sneak Peeks, as it exists right now on iOS, can’t be recreated on Android in exactly the same way. Something to do with the tool we used to build it - I don’t know the details but the plan is to rebuilt it in a platform agnostic way. @naji may have some more info on this.

We’ve discussed this before but if we are going by the strictest definition of the term “parity” then it was probably the wrong term for us to use. We’ve put in a huge amount of work with The Big List project to bring the main things that people requested to Android, but the apps aren’t (and probably never will be) exactly the same.

I personally like that we have NFC activation on Android as well as granular notifications. Yes, the lack of these is a platform limitation of iOS but at least for the former, we still had to build it in.

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I think that explanation is sufficient for me, and I would agree.

To me this is a case where you can say parity because it’s not something you have control over :slight_smile:

Tell me you’re not serious or you have not looked at iOS app :joy:

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Let’s try to avoid this conversation becoming circular, folks. There’s really not a huge amount to say that hasn’t been covered in the 89 posts above this one :grinning:

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What about notes for faster payment service payments? They’re possible on Android, but on iOS the notes field is shown as the ‘Reference’ field and is uneditable. This looks strange when you edit the notes on Android to add hashtags to the payment!

And then of course you’ve still got a few areas in the Android app that ask for the card PIN rather than using the fingerprint.

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Where are these? :eyes: This shouldn’t be the case I don’t think

Cancelling scheduled payments is the one I can recall off the top of my head, I think there’s another.

There are no widgets on Android.

I don’t know how we’re supposed to tell Monzo what features one platform has that the other doesn’t. I don’t have an iPhone to compare with.
Surely Monzo know what each app has? I shouldn’t need to find out by accident that iPhone has widgets then raise it.

A couple of things I can think of off the top of my head that iOS have and Android doesn’t:

  • Sneak peaks section of app (not community).
  • Advanced searching.
  • Bill splitting.
  • Changing pot pictures.
  • Full initials for Monzo contacts without a profile picture - Android only has the first letter of the first name, making it really difficult to tell Monzo contacts without profile pictures apart.
  • Transactions categorised as expenses have “Expenses” appear under the transaction in the main feed.

NB: I know some of these have been included above already.

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I still get asked for pin when transferring between JA and when paying via bank transfer.

Edit: reinstalled, ticked fingerprint Auth box, seems okay now.

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Sure :slight_smile: I think it’s more helpful to ask however. For instance, above I made the assumption that since iOS and Android both had search that was fine - I know how the iOS search works and use Android day to day and I personally have no issues. However, several other people have different opinions on that and think we should try to make the Android search a bit more granular. As @simonb has pointed out, we’re unlikely to rebuild the Android search to match the iOS version as there are a few issues with it. There would probably be a cross platform project to rebuild it on both platforms which will take a while to scope and set up :slight_smile:

That’s a good shout :+1: I’m not quite sure what happened to this actually.

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Generally yes, but I think not in this specific case. It was Monzo’s choice to implement this using a tool that only works on iOS. If it was something that was impossible on iOS, like NFC card activations, then I agree with your point.

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This one really annoys me. I’ve had to write a script on my computer to use the API so I can set notes on incoming payments. It’s a hassle though. @simonb, do you know if there’s a reason that setti g notes on incoming payments was removed from iOS?

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Did it used to be there?

Yes, sadly it did and was removed. :disappointed:

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