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FishCoin for Android — 0.3.1 (build 15)

What's new since build 13

Build 14 was never released. It exists, and it went straight into this one, so everything it changed is listed here.

Superseded. This build only ever went to Play's internal testing track, which is what the rest of these notes were written against. The current build is 0.5.1 (build 19), on open testing — install it from FishCoin's page on Google Play.

You can now delete your account from inside the app

Settings → Delete my account. It asks you to type DELETE, then asks once more, and then it happens — there is no waiting period and no undo.

Read the screen before you use it, because deletion here does not mean everything disappears, and we would rather you knew that up front than found out afterwards:

• Your account, name, photo, email address, phone number and your profile on the standings are removed.
• Your catches are NOT removed. The measurement, the coin, the video and the position stay with us, with the link to you severed — they stop being yours and stay in the dataset of fish and places.
• Casual catches drop off the leaderboards. Entries in a real tournament or challenge stay on the board as an anonymous entry, because a settled contest has to keep saying whose entry was whose.
• Catches stored on your phone are deleted from it.

There is also a form on fishcoin.ai if you would rather not do it in the app.

Why we ask for your location, before we ask for it

The capture screen used to open and immediately fire two permission prompts with no explanation of either. It now explains the location one first.

It matters more than the usual version of this: FishCoin will not accept a catch fixed to worse than 75 metres, so turning location down is not a reduced mode — it is the app not working. Anyone who declined without being told that was set up to fail.

The explanation also now says what actually happens to the coordinates, which the earlier draft of it got wrong: your exact spot is never made public, and catches shown on the standings carry a position blurred to about a mile.

The name under the icon

It said "FishCoinApp". It says "FishCoin". That was the project name leaking onto your home screen.

From build 14, which never shipped on its own

• The app no longer backs itself up to Google's cloud. Build 13 did, and what it was backing up included the pending-upload database — which holds your email, phone and the coordinates of catches that have not sent yet, unencrypted. That is fixed and it is the reason build 14's version number moved.
• Crash reporting and analytics are now present and declared. The advertising identifier is switched off and the permission for it is removed from the app, so nothing here follows you between apps.

Under the hood

Nothing in this section changes anything you can see.

• A permission to read video files was declared and never used by anything. It is gone.
• Deleting your account clears the right files off the phone. An earlier version of that code named a settings file that does not exist, which would have left your email address and phone number on the device while reporting success.

What would help most

Unchanged, and still first: tape-measure a fish and enter the number — with the tail pinched to a point, as the prompt asks. It is the only real reference we have for whether our measurement is right, and every one of them helps.