My team's released an android application into the Play Store, that's getting pretty terrible reviews. Many of the reviews are fair, however, a frustrating one is the DatePicker issue I'm having on Android.
Part of the core user journey in the app, is to provide the user's DOB, which fires up the native DatePicker control available in Android, like so:
I've got nearly a hundred 1 * reviews, because users state that they "don't want to page through hundreds of months to get back to my year of birth". It's easy to laugh it off and think the user's a bit of a 'tard, but I think they have a good point in that the year component is not very obvious.
So, I've requested that we release a new version of the app, which leverages the "barrel selector" very similar to the iOS Date picker equivalent. It's still native Android control, just a different mode. I am however still getting the same feedback from numerous users that they still have the old calendar style DatePicker, even though they've updated the app.
To resolve, I think we'll just have to build a customer DatePicker control, that does not leverage native android controls. I would still however like to understand, why some users - even though they've deleted and installed the new version - sees the old calendar style picker?
Is there a specific Android setting any of you know of, which could cause this - maybe a preference override of some sort? I doubt these users I'm referring to, are ones that have installed custom ROMs or launchers.
Part of the core user journey in the app, is to provide the user's DOB, which fires up the native DatePicker control available in Android, like so:
I've got nearly a hundred 1 * reviews, because users state that they "don't want to page through hundreds of months to get back to my year of birth". It's easy to laugh it off and think the user's a bit of a 'tard, but I think they have a good point in that the year component is not very obvious.
So, I've requested that we release a new version of the app, which leverages the "barrel selector" very similar to the iOS Date picker equivalent. It's still native Android control, just a different mode. I am however still getting the same feedback from numerous users that they still have the old calendar style DatePicker, even though they've updated the app.
To resolve, I think we'll just have to build a customer DatePicker control, that does not leverage native android controls. I would still however like to understand, why some users - even though they've deleted and installed the new version - sees the old calendar style picker?
Is there a specific Android setting any of you know of, which could cause this - maybe a preference override of some sort? I doubt these users I'm referring to, are ones that have installed custom ROMs or launchers.
