Version 1.6 - Meals & Push Notifications

I'm very excited to announce version 1.6! This is a quite big update with a lot of work behind it, mostly behind the scenes, but here are the two main new features:

Meals

Users now have the ability to create their own custom collections of plants, called Meals. This is something that will expanded upon a lot in future, but for now its purely a quality-of-life feature designed to save time. Once a user has grouped some plants together, they will have quick access to this group via a new page. For each Meal they will (for now...) have 2 options:

• Select all plants in the meal - the user can then interact with that selection in the normal way.

• List all plants in the group - this is essentially a new filtering method and is the option I have used the most while testing the feature. For example, I have now grouped everything I commonly put into Muesli into one meal.

Push Notifications

I added Local Notifications in a recent update, however Push Notifications was always the goal. The main change here is simply the ability to send and receive these notifications, but there are 2 new situations where users will be optionally notified:

• When receiving friend requests

• When a friend accepts your request

This will obviously be expanded a lot and will be super important for driving engagement later. For now I will be focused on things between friends for example notifications when a friend hits 30 (next update).

Other Changes

As always there's a more behind the scenes. But here are some interesting highlights:

• New website including new blog and homepage design. I'm mostly happy about the new homepage design! But this change also included upgrading our NextJS version. I have also started the process of re-unifying the web app and mobile app code, so the same features are on both.

• Performance improvements, in particular when navigating between screens.