New changes in the SAC app (version 4.2)

It’s not been a quit spring for the SAC team so far! Beyond visiting multiple cities, helping dozens of artists claim their profiles, and launching the ‘Best of the Month’ awards on the SAC platform, our tech team also has been working to optimise the Street Art Cities mobile app.

Version 4.2 will be hitting the stores in the next few days, and bring these new features:

Moving links to the Hunter & Artist dashboards

Previously, there was a tab in the app for hunters to manage their artworks on their phones. We got quite a lot of reports that this wasn’t working properly - sometimes the page would throw away your edits without a warning, or sometimes it would just display a white screen. Sorry about that!

We want editing your artworks on the go to work well, so until we build a better version of this tab, we’ve replaced it with some links that open up the web version of the hunter and artists dashboards, accessible right from the app’s home screen, just above the world feed:

In the future, we’ll also add additional links in this bar, to get quick access to other tools and pages that might be helpful.

Viewing and editing your artist profile

Lots of artists are claiming their profiles on SAC these days! To make the app more useful for them as well, we’ve made it possible to see your artist profile in the app, and quickly go to the page in the artist dashboard where you can edit it, without leaving the app.

Clusters be clusterin’

This one has been a long time coming: we now have proper cluster support in the app, allowing you to easily see all the artworks in a location, even if they appear very close together. Thanks @Andrew_Haysom for proposing this change, and to @Noa_Heutz for implementing it, which wasn’t trivial!

Small bug fixes and improvements

  • Fixed scrolling of feed gallery entries on Android
  • Fixed editing profile bio on iPhone
  • Hide empty date fields in artwork attributes
  • Prioritise loading map images over other images in the app
  • Upgrade some under-the-hood systems (React Native) to newer versions
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Hi, I’ve noticed that since I updated the App when I open it it no longer shows any nearby art? Before I updated when I opened it I could see all the art in my current city, Thessaloniki, but now it’s just the map with no art displayed. Is anyone else having this issue?

Seems like we’ve indeed introduced a bug - apologies! We’re working on a new version now that hopefully will go live later today, where this is resolved.

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Thomas, I (and others reported to me), have been experiencing crashes in the app when we try to go to a city via the search screen.

No errors or anything, the app just disappears off screen.

Yes that’s part of the same bug Ibrahim reported - apologies about that! Apple is currently reviewing an updated version of the app for approval. Hopefully they’ll push it to the App Store soon.

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I’m on Android and have ran the revised update. I can confirm that it has fixed my issue.
Thank you for the quick resolution!

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Thanks Thomas for the very quick action, I love the new changes, especially the app map!