Throughout the year, Saropa Contacts evolves with you, bringing updates that resonate with every season.
- 🌍 Global Celebrations & Emergency Services: Integrated global religious holidays and expanded emergency services details, including significant updates for Ghanaian services.
- 🎨 User Experience Enhancements: Improved search with icon keywords, added new relationship types, and updated design elements like background color and font for better readability and navigation.
- ⚡ Performance and Bug Fixes: Enhanced app performance with infrastructure updates and deferred loading, and resolved issues such as celebrity identity mix-ups and category misplacements.
Dive into the details and see what’s new by reading on!
All features below are free to use, except for features marked with a ✨ that require a trial or paid plan. Learn more at https://app.saropa.com
Contact Matters — Saropa Contacts
The landing page for the Saropa mobile app.
New Features and Improvmenents
- From Vesak to Yom Ha’atzmaut, we added global religious celebrations to user settings — Bahá’Ă, Buddhist, Christian, Hindo, Jain, Jewish, and Muslim
- Added a signifiant number of Ghanian emergency services and country details
- Added United States federal holidays and other interesting dates
- ✨ Bloody Brilliant!
- ✨ Add keywords to Icons to make it easier to search — for example, both “football” and “soccer” will return the expected results
- ✨ Added a gaggle of comedy Icons
- More relationship types — including Guardians, Wards, In-laws, and Ex’s
- Softened background color from white to light grey
- Enabled landscape mode by default — useful for tablets, not yet for phones
- ✨ Added a D.O.S.E hapiness coach to master the feel-good hormones and how they affect your mind, mood, and body
- Contact Details now hide empty sections by default
- Multiple deferred loading changes (including shimmers) improve screen loading times — especially the Country and Emergency Dashboard screens
- Upgrading to modern build.gradle brought (minor) performance and comaptibility improvements
- ✨ Redesigned the Icons screen to improve usability (UX) and search speed
- Switch the main font from Roboto to Noto Sans for better unicode character support
- Updated all the play store images to better reflect the current screen designs
Bug Fixes
- ✨ After a fixed ID misassignment, Kevin Hart is not longer imported as Mark Strong!
Mark Strong
British actor
Kevin Hart
American comedian and actor
- Fixed an issue where imported Emergency Services info was duplicated
- ✨ Etimoni Timuani is no longer a Movie star!
- Fixed an issue when the space character was removed from some text fields
- ✨ Fixed a bug where a medical Coaches and Icons were appearing as Emergency Contacts
Unsolved Issues We are Wathcing
- A reported slowdown on the upgrade (subscription purchase) screen
In Other News…
- We reaches a new milestone of 8000 users — welcome to everyone!
- We received a new coding companion, with Flowbender dropping a new album: https://open.spotify.com/album/4z67tr21zBAD9qA679AZxe
A Final Word
