It looks like a slight face lift for the app too....at least on the Android side of the house. Mainly, I notice some yellow highlighting at the bottom for the screen selected and a change to the battery page so that you don't have to toggle tabs in order to see all the battery info....now you can just scroll and for my Nexus 6P that means I can see everything about the battery on one screen except for the number of charge cycles which I don't really pay attention to.
The iOS app updated with the same visual results; I'm very glad to see all the battery status in one screenful, although I'd be even happier to get a data log of some kind instead of having to take screenshots. Connecting feels a little faster but the process of connecting has bumps, requiring me to leave the app for the system settings, connect there, and then switch back. Hopefully that's just a one time setup cost after the update.
(old complaint) The iOS app has the same popup dialog that Android has, but Bluetooth doesn't work the same so it always feels wrong and the settings button doesn't do anything. As someone who's developed software user interfaces for a very long time on the web and mobile, I'd really recommend just never using a modal dialog at all, and instead offering an ignorable inline/overlay bar with the same effect.
What's really strange is that I can't activate the riding screen after experiencing a glitch as follows:
- The riding screen activated the first time automatically while I was still in portrait orientation (and I wish the riding screen would support both portrait and explicitly exiting within the app instead of using the motorcycle kill switch).
- I rotated to landscape orientation to see the screen.
- I left the riding screen to customize the instruments (since those preferences apparently reset during the upgrade).
- I then tried to return to the riding screen.
- Now the riding screen won't activate automatically or manually, or in demo mode.
I assume this is a minor bug to fix, and hopefully this is a reasonable report for someone with Zero.
I'm definitely glad to see end user firmware update support, even if neither of my bikes will benefit from it, apparently. (somewhat relatedly) During my only DSR service visit, I requested a firmware update, and was disappointed that they unexpectedly could not get the dealer software to recognize and connect to my bike, with no explicit error or message, so I haven't been able to update at all so far. The service team claimed that my bike is the first to get that result for them.
