Boidhre wrote:Go Game Life and Death I installed a few days ago. I disagree with you, the interface is terrible. The untranslated Chinese is grating in a paid app (free to download but 11 Euro to unlock the problems) but considering the translation mistakes that litter what they did translate it doesn't look like they gave a damn anyway. The problems are good and enjoyable but solving each one brings up a damn "pop up" asking if you want to talk about your successful solving on Sina or WeChat, two Chinese social media sites. Several of the buttons at the bottom do not work or crash the app when tapped, iPad 3 iOS 6.1.3 so really this should not be happening.
The problems are nice, the app is quite unpleasant to use. It's quite a poor port of a Chinese app. Little effort was made to localise the content. I wouldn't mind but the go community being what it is it would not be hard to find a native English speaker to proofread for serious errors and find testers for the apps free of charge. I really want to like this app, the problems as I say are of decent quality and worth paying for but the interface is really turning me off of it at the moment.
I use this app every day and have not seen any crash since day one. I use it on iphone4 (iOS 6.1.2 with JB) mostly. I checked how it works on ipad 1&4(iOS 5.1.1 & 6.1.2 with no JB) and had no problems.
Interface is not the best, true, but it's not such terrible to be a dealbreaker. It is just ugly
- like overstretched iphone version. I saw much worse apps in terms of funcionality (WeiqiDB for example - THIS is a real horror to use, and even Hye Yeon's Life and death has worse interface, so it is all relative). Chinese descriptions are not important, if something is unclear then it is a good thing to work it out on your own (especially in higher level tsumego where you are sometimes left with a position not played out). The problems are the essence of the app and the selection is good, which we both agree. Yes, popup is little annoying, I hated it at first but now just ignore, as you can tap anywhere to close it so not a big deal for me. But hey - there is over 7000 problems!
Boidhre wrote:I tried the Go Problems one there and uninstalled it after playing around with it for five minutes. I don't remember exactly why but for me to do that there must have been some serious issues with the app.
This app is a nice one till you open "problem sets" section and see $2-$3 for every next set. This is just ridiculous compared to some other apps with thousands of problems for free or 3-5 bucks. It is $40 for all sets which is a huge "No, Thank you" for me. I will try to give it a chance, though just to see how it works with a basic free set.
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