Suggest or vote on ideas for new features or changes you'd like to see in the AC Central app.
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Downloading sermons
When I try to download a sermon, I find it hard to click the icon so it starts the download. Typically I need to try lots of times until it begins. As a suggestion, you could add that option to the "Cancel / Play Audio" pop up
In version 4 of AC Central, downloading is done by tapping the three dots button on each listing to access additional features from a popup menu. Hopefully that works better for you.
Speed Control button on Android is clumsy
The speed control button on Android is very clumsy. First of all, the area that needs to be tapped is very small, and easily missed by your finger. Second, if I want to slow it down by 0.25 (i.e. from 1.5x to 1.25x), I have to cycle through all the speeds to get back to 1.25x. A simple slider with a larger area to grab with your finger would suffice.
Thanks for adding a speed control in the first place, it is very helpful when the speaker is very slow!
The 4.0.6 update changed the speed control to be a popup menu so user can quickly select a speed.
Night's Stay
Hello,
Speaking with a Brother when we visited a different one of our churches, about our hospitable church history and way to better facilitate our practice.
It would be culturally impactful and clean communication wise to have a 'travel' icon in AC Central.
Folks traveling can go on the app and select which church they are going by/to and how many in their party/ages.
Folks from each church who have a home & interest in hosting travelers can sign up to receive notifications of a traveler coming to their church. The first one from that church who 'accepts' the request would close the ticket and see the visitor's contact info for planning.
New updated app doesn’t load sermons correctly
This problem only began with the new app…only the first 10 sermons of every congregation load instantly. If you want see anything beyond the first 10 sermons…you have to refresh and refresh and get out of the app and reopen it. Sometimes it never will load more than 10. If it won’t load more than 10, it also will not search more than the 10 sermons that show up in that particular congregations. It also will not show any downloaded items until all the archives have loaded. Just wondering why this would only be a problem that started with the new update? Running iOS 14.6
Version 4 of the app uses a different method of fetching data which should have resolved this issue. If not, please post a new issue. This is one is being closed since it refers to a prior app version.
As a workaround until this potentially gets added to the apps, you can access the web version of AC Central and print the PDF attachments there https://accentral.apostolicchristian.org, whether on mobile or desktop.
All downloaded files on same page
It would be helpful to have a page where all downloaded audio files could be accessed at the same time. It is a little clunky to navigate to the proper section first.
Agreed. We are planning a rethinking of the entire user interface in 2022 and this will be changed then.
Why do downloaded sermons disappear after a time?
Just wondering why downloaded sermons disappear after a while? It’s not just when the app has a little maintenance update to run…randomly everything downloaded will be gone even if an update was not started.
Queue for sermons
Would it be possible to create a queue feature where you could select sermons or podcasts to listen to later so that you don’t always have to go back and find them again? Similar to queue for Pandora or Spotify where the next one starts playing when you’re finished with the first. Or I suppose it could be a star or like option that would create a list of sermons that you want to listen to. Sometimes I listen to a portion of a sermon and have to finish later. I always have to remember where I found it so that I can get back to it later. Or I’ve had people suggest a sermon or podcast to me and I don’t have time to listen right then. I would like to create a list or star that particular sermon so that I can find it easily later.
Version 4 of AC Central includes a Playlist feature and also a Favorites section.
The ability to submit a prayer request for the daily prayer
I think it would be good for us to have the option to submit an idea for the daily prayer alert. I.e if we have a local or global prayer need, to submit it as a recommendation for the daily prayer.
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