It’s time to help me test something new!
Most of you know that Slope has had mobile apps on Android and Apple for years. They’re pretty good, and very well rated (4.8 stars on both platforms), but I’ve never been over-the-moon happy with them. I wanted to change that, so we’ve been working on something quite new, which is an app we are going to call SocialTrade.
The app isn’t ready to download yet on the Apple or Google Play platforms, because I want to put it through the paces first (plus we have some improvements to make). I would VERY much appreciate your help testing this, however, and I think you’d have fun trying something new.
Step One: you need to download an app called Expo Go on your Android or iOS device. Just search for that name in the App Store or Google Play.
Step Two: Start the Expo Go app and go to the Login screen. Enter the username slopeofhope and the password Socialtrade1
Step Three: Point your mobile device at this QR Code, and it should prompt you to load it in Expo Go. You can click on this image to make it bigger, if you want. This should load the new SocialTrade app onto your device.
Step Four: You should see the ‘socialtrade‘ name in your Recently Opened list (or it might just load for you). Tap it to start it up.
If you got this far, hurray! I know it’s a little tricky, but that’s how beta software is. Hopefully you will be at a login screen (not a very pretty one yet), and you can enter your regular Slope username and password there. At that point, everything should be very easy to understand. We have our home page (kindly note, there is PLENTY of polishing to be done; I am mainly asking you to test for errors and problems). One thing I’ll say right now is that the price change on the quotes is off by 100, so, yeah, fear not, we’ll fix it.
Tap the “Posts” button and you can access all the posts.
And “Charts” gets you to mobile SlopeCharts.
Quotes doesn’t do anything yet. We’ll get to that in about a week.
Most important of all, and the main reason I did this project, is that we’ve built SlopeTalk into the app, which means you can chat in real time with your friends on the site. This is the one element of the site I would like tested most of all!
I have successfully tested all this on my iPhone and iPad. My Android device is so outdated that it didn’t work, but it should (should!) work for you Android folks. Please drop me a line with any feedback, or just leave remarks in the comments section below.
