The Small Fixes in Flaevo 1.1.0 That Add Up

Some updates are one big feature. This one has two of them, Daily 3 and learning straight from the syllabus, and also a long list of small things that were quietly getting in your way.

None of these is exciting on its own. Together they are the difference between an app that feels solid and one that keeps catching you out. Here they are.

Typed answers are marked on meaning

When a question asks you to type the answer, Flaevo used to compare letters. Type "boys" when the key said "boy" and you were wrong. That is not what a teacher would do.

Now an answer that means the same thing counts:

• "3" for "three", "21" for "twenty-one", "0.5" for "1/2"
• "boy" for "boys", and "the mitochondria" for "mitochondria"
• any one of the answers the key allows, when it says "X or Y"
• a small slip in a long word: a letter dropped, added or swapped

For a slip, you are marked right and the correct spelling is shown, so you still learn it.

What it will not do is let a different answer through. Alkane is not alkene. Mitosis is not meiosis. A changed letter that makes a different word is still wrong, and so is a different number or a different formula. Being generous about spelling is only fair if it is strict about meaning.

This applies everywhere you type an answer: quizzes, Smart Review, Semester Review, Daily 3 and quizzes with friends.

The back button does what you expect

On Android, pressing back with a pop-up open now closes the pop-up, the way it does in every other app. Before, some sheets ignored it, and some took you off the page underneath instead.

Pressing back on Home now puts Flaevo in the background, instead of doing nothing.

A slow connection is not an offline one

Many of you study on mobile data that is slow rather than missing. When a screen opened, its first few requests could all time out together, and Flaevo would announce you were offline while your data was working fine.

Now a slow request counts as slow. The offline notice only appears when nothing is getting through at all, for example when your bundle has run out.

Signing out clears the phone

If you share a phone with a sibling or a friend, signing out now clears your saved data from that phone and cancels your reminders. The next person who signs in does not see your courses, your questions or your notifications.

We also tightened a few things behind the scenes that keep your account and your study data private.

A cleaner launch

Opening Flaevo from a notification, a widget or a shortcut used to show a plain blue screen, with no logo. Now you see the same launch screen however you open the app.

The brief white flash between the launch screen and Home is gone too.

Long-pressing the Flaevo icon now gives you Ask Flae, Review, Study and Flashcards. Before, one of the shortcuts opened a blank screen and another opened the wrong page.

Smaller things in Flae's chat

• Deep Thinking stopped blaming your network. While Flae was thinking through a hard question, the app sometimes showed "Network slow" even though the message had arrived. Now you see that she is thinking, and the network warning only shows when sending really is slow.
• Equations sit in the middle. Every standalone equation is centred, the way a textbook prints it.
• The text is bigger, and sending a message is smoother.
• The camera on Home sends your photo to Flae, the same as the camera inside the chat. Before, it went somewhere else and often failed.

Settings save themselves

Change a setting and it is saved. There is no Save button to forget.

A clearer Help Centre, and a What's new

The Help Centre in Settings has been redesigned, with articles for everything new in this update. And after an update, a What's new screen now shows what changed, once. You can open it again any time from Settings or your profile.

Getting it

All of this is in Flaevo 1.1.0. Update from the Play Store, or download the latest APK from flaevoapp.com.

If something still catches you out, tell us at support@flaevoapp.com.