| First Bus app December 2024 Posted by Mark A at 15:02, 18th December 2024 |     |
It's been seeing updates recently. The corpsy scrolling has gone, and it's just received a new logo. It feels more responsive, hopefully something has happened behind the scenes or on the server to improve its data fetching.
Still missing: a timer to indicate how long until a bus position screen updates.
Not yet checked: what it does when it's working over a flaky data connection.
Mark
| Re: First Bus app December 2024 Posted by Ralph Ayres at 17:38, 18th December 2024 | |
I've just updated mine. Apart from the new logo I can't spot any difference but will see how it performs. An update timer would indeed be handy and reassuring, but apart from that my only real complaint is the annoying extra tap needed to see the actual departure board when I select a bus stop. Bus Checker more sensibly assumes that's what you want and shows it straight away, but sadly live times aren't fully supported for non-TfL routes where I live just inside the Greater London boundary so only the operator's own app can access them.
