San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Enhancements:
Added spinner during login for slow internet users and to improve UX.
Improve user login addressing edge cases.
Removal of confusing logout modal.
New native E news view for logged in and subscribed users.

Maintenance

1). Our app uses the AppTrackingTransparency framework. We want users to be engaged with the app before we present the AppTrackingTransparency permission request to them.

To locate the App Tracking Transparency permission request. You can trigger the request by viewing 1 story and then clicking on an app tab. Please try this:

Go to "Top News" screen

Tap a story to open it, then return to "Top News" screen

Go to the "Sections" tab

A prompt should appear that tells the user about the AppTrackingTransparency permission

Press "Got it" to trigger the AppTrackingTransparency permission request

2). We are a news app with occasional videos. We have enabled the "Audio, Airplay, and Picture in Picture" background mode capability because we use Picture in Picture with our videos.

3). Made Apple required change to allow users to delete their account from Settings. Go to Settings and scroll down to the bottom, there is now an Account Deletion button there that makes it easier to delete one's account.QA plan for release

Welcome to a new app experience! We have optimized our app and given it a facelift! This faster native app now has the following new features:

Your News:
Provides personalized recommendations for content based on user preferences.
Users will be allowed to customize the content they want to engage with by selecting the topics they are truly interested in
By going to the “Your News” tab the user can bypass the noise of all that is published and home in on the content they want

Saved Articles:
Save feature that allows users to save articles or other content they are interested in for later reading or reference
Push notifications will remind users to read their saved articles or suggest related content

Custom Push Notifications:
Users can select what topics they want to be notified about which makes for a much less intrusive experience.

Top Navigation Bar:
A top navigation bar lets users switch between sections by swiping or tapping.

Enews in-app:
Want the newspaper experience? No need to open a separate app!
By simply going to Settings and selecting E-News the user can browse the Digital Replica of the day’s paper.

Offline Reading:
This feature allows users to enable offline reading from Settings.
Offline “Reading Preferences” can also be customized for Settings.

Swipe Left:
Instead of going back to the main section to find more articles, users have the option to simply swipe, immediately opening other articles in the Section.

Follow Topics:
Users will be shown articles on topics they are following.
To follow select "follow" icon at the article level and related articles will gain relevancy and be shown more frequently. And just as easily “Unfollow”

Games:
Users can enjoy a variety of games served in-app.
Games include: Sudoku, Solitaire, Jumble, Crossword, and Puzzles

Designed especially for mobile devices, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune news app offers amazing clarity and convenience with a variety of improved features, a bold new layout, dynamic visuals, faster content delivery and much more.

Release Notes:

* Updates and maintenance to the push notification system

* Fixed an issue that prevented access to articles after a deep link

* Login improvements

* Bug fixes

This release includes bug fixes, optimizations, technical improvements and added additional features, including:

• User Registration fixes
• Fixed an issue where push notifications would crash the app in some cases
• Fixed an issue where Youtube videos would not render correctly
• Fixed an issue where a longer article did not completely show, now shows fully
• Additional updates to Apple’s App Tracking Transparency
• User status notifications (logged in, logged out, subscribed)
• Additional bug fixes and updates

This release includes bug fixes, optimizations, technical improvements and added additional features, including:

* Addition of Apple’s App Tracking Transparency

* User status notifications (logged in, logged out, subscribed)

* Bug fixes and updates

• "Do Not Sell My Info" link
• Bug fixes and stability improvements

This release includes bug fixes, optimizations, technical improvements and added additional features, including:
• Implement native embeds for Instagram, and Twitter.

We want your feedback on the apps! You can now submit feedback directly from the app menu.

This release includes bug fixes, and feed loading optimizations to help prevent long loading screens.
We want your feedback on the apps! You can now submit feedback directly from the app menu.

This release includes bug fixes, optimizations, technical improvements and added additional features including:
• UI/UX changes.
• New navigation.

We want your feedback on the apps! You can now submit feedback directly from the app menu.

This release includes bug fixes, and optimizations.
• Fix for push notification opening a previous article.
• Adjusted push notification system to more often open pushes inside of the app.
• Updated Images to be completely displayed.

This release includes bug fixes and stability enhancements.

This release includes bug fixes, and optimizations.
• Resolved a bug that prevented Google Analytics from working as expected.
• Improved Push notification subscription tracking.
• Resolved an issue that prevented badges from updating and clearing correctly.

This release includes bug fixes, optimizations, technical improvements and added additional features.

We want your feedback on the apps! You can now submit feedback directly from the app menu.

This release includes bug fixes, optimizations, technical improvements and added additional features, including:
• Resolving a bug that caused duplicate navigation items.
• Expanded the clickable area on the AdChoices Disclosure icon.
• Enhanced Taxonomy integration with sections.

We want your feedback on the apps! You can now submit feedback directly from the app menu.

This release includes bug fixes, optimizations, technical improvements and added additional features, including:
• Embedded Scribble live posts will display in the app.

We want your feedback on the apps! You can now submit feedback directly from the app menu.

This app release includes bug fixes and additional features:
• Embedded Tweets will display in the app.
• Embedded Instagram posts will display in the app.
• Better support for photo only articles.

We want your feedback on the apps! You can now submit feedback directly from the app menu.

We've fixed various bugs in this release and added additional features, including:
• Swipe for more articles: Swipe left to view the next article
• Font Size: Adjust the font size for the app from the app settings menu
• Multiple video support: Stories can now handle multiple videos, if they are included.
• Landscape view for iPhone: Take advantage of landscape orientation by tilting your device
• Navigation, section, image loading and scale improvements. Various performance improvements.
• We want your feedback on the apps! You can now submit feedback and bug reports directly through the app through the menu.

• Optimized content loading.
• Improved layout to better accomodate larger screen sizes.
• Added a scroll bar to the navigation view to better indicate the current location in the menu.
• Content recommendations based on the current article now show up at the bottom of articles.

• Bug Fixes
• Performance Enhancements

• Added iPad Landscape view
• Performance Enhancements

We've rebuilt and redesigned our app from the ground up with two simple goals: to be blazingly fast and easy to use.

Our improved app also includes better notification technology to keep you informed of Breaking News and need-to-know community information fast.

You can expect many more improvements like these in the coming months as we renew our efforts to deliver the best mobile app experience in our area. Thanks for your download.

• Performance Enhancements

• Performance Enhancements
• iOS 9 Support

• Performance Enhancements

• Performance Enhancements

• Performance Enhancements

• Performance Enhancements
• Landscape Supported Video Playback

• Performance Enhancements

• Performance Enhancements

• Native Share Extension
• Bookmark Improvements
• Performance Enhancements

• Pull to Refresh
• User Tips
• Push Notification Control in Settings Menu

• Performance Enhancements
• Continued Improvement to Load Time and Stability

• Commenting
• Bookmarking (Online and Offline Capability)
• Swipe Navigation for Article and Section Views
• Continued Improvement to Article Linked Push Notification
• Continued Improvement to Load Time and Stability
• Support for iOS 8

• Sub-Section Navigation
• Text Size Control
• Continued Improvement to Load Time and Stability

We would love to hear from you. Feedback is always welcome. You can email us by clicking the settings icon, selecting "Contact Us" and choosing "Mobile Feedback" with any issues or suggestions.

• Resolved issues that resulted in frequent application crashes
• Resolved issues that resulted in long load times on app start
• Improved Push Notification delivery and reliability