After a brief summer break, let’s dive into the latest updates and features of Saropa Contacts — our app is now better than ever! 🌟
- 🚀 Free: All Saropa Contacts features are now 100% free for everyone. No more paid subscriptions or login requirements!
- 📞 Swipe Actions: Quick Call, Text, and Email buttons have been added to the swipe menu on the All Contacts tab for easier communication.
- 🧙♂️ Harry Potter & Star Wars: Added 60 new characters from the Wizarding World and 90 character cards from a galaxy far, far away.
- 🛠️ Maintenance & Fixes: Improved startup performance, better tablet support, various bug fixes, and improvements with Public Holidays.
Contact Matters — Saropa Contacts
The landing page for the Saropa mobile app.
Updates to Emergency Services
- Emergency Services screen — filter quick links by type, not organization, and service profile images are now shown:
- Showing emergency service YouTube videos in the media tab
- Quick Call, Text, and Email buttons were added to the swipe menu on the All Contacts tab:
Updates to Phone Calling
- The swipe archive option has been turned off by default, and will now confirm (yes/no) if turned on:
- Phone call settings are now grouped together:
- Extended Call Notices to show Cultural Notes when calling overseas (Phone, Text, Email, Telegram, or WhatsApp):
Updates to Icons and Characters
- Importing from a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…
- View detailed character and movie information:
- Added 60 new characters from the Wizarding World:
- Added a new panel for Wizards, including House details:
- Icons can now be filtered by country
- 50 US political Icons were added in preparation for the upcoming US elections:
- Added Muhammad Yunus and wishing Bangladesh a peaceful future:
Updates to the System and Usability
- All features are now 100% free for everyone — no more paid subscriptions or login requirements!
- The new user startup sequence now requires import permission:
3rd Party Licenses are expanded with more links to service providers:
- Main grid reorganized to show all Contact-related features on page 2 and other tools & utilities on page 3:
Updates to People and Organization Management
- Now detecting medical and health-related notes and showing them in a separate contact detail group:
- Added detection of some company logos — where contacts have company email or websites
Updates to the World & Travel Database
- Double-tapping the 5th navigation area icon changes the behavior to show the country list. Double-tapping switches back again:
- Double-tapping on a country quote will now show you a new random quote, and long-tapping will copy it to the clipboard:
Maintenance Chores (and Fixes)
- Improved startup performance
- Renamed “User Profile” to “Your Account”
- Fixed an issue with Public Holidays not appear in Call Notices
- Fixed a scrolling issue on the zodiac and Chinese zodiac screens
- Better tablet support by pre-checking SIM card availability and hiding call and text options if necessary
- Removed the in-app $ donations (coffee purchases)
- Fixed a bug where Wizards could be clicked to reopen the window
- Age was not displaying in contact details when zodiac was turned off
- Fixed an overflow on the YouTube copyright notice
- Fixed a left-alignment issue in the setting screen
- Added a missing left indent in the Top Contacts panel
- Migrated to wait buttons when calling internet APIs
- Upgraded the development framework from Java 11 and SDK 3.4.1
- Upgrade dependent package to the latest stable versions
- Release a new version of the community open sourced saropa_dart_utils package
- Fixed a certificate error with error reporting to Google Crashlytics
- Corrected some YouTube links for Emergency Services
- Fixed organization web searches to support special character encoding (e.g., the “&” symbol)
- Fixed a bug preventing the Icon Donald Trump from being added
Coming Soon
- Migration from medium to a self-hosted platform for SEO reasons
- Star Wars was fun, so following up with Pokémon or Marvel or Star Trek or more
- Full rebuild of the home page to structure by ‘intent’
What’s On Our Minds
- Finally accepted… “Putting cool stuff behind a paywall slows growth”
- Strategic APIs, is there such a thing?
- Balancing onboarding work with unacceptable bounce rate
- Still attempting to crack the gig economy
- Still no understanding of advertising in the Apple ecosystem
- Trying out the unofficial Medium spell checker
- Coding is still easier with Flowbender
A Final Word
When we learn of a mistake, we acknowledge it with a correction. If you spot an error, please let us know at newsletter@saropa.com.