Ride

Ride by @KaneCheshire; the ultimate eSK8 companion app. Available for FREE on Android and iOS. Feeling generous? Tip in the app!

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You might have heard about Boosted’s latest message to the community about letting staff go & will be under new ownership.

I wanted to get in early and let everyone know that Ride isn’t going anywhere, & Ride for Droid is still going ahead.

More info: https://t.co/gwHmDNXNmn

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@Akasuna Booooo that’s a shame.

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@Akasuna Ahh okay. Do you know if that board can connect to an app and the remote at the same time? If so I might be able to add support to Ride some day

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@Akasuna Ohhhhh sorry! Not at the moment but that’s a really good point. I’m currently in the process of redeveloping the iOS and watchOS apps so I can try and factor this in. What board do you have btw?

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Ride for iOS users in the same period have stacked up a total of 31000km (19262miles), but obvs Ride for iOS has been out for a few years now so it’s not a fair comparison yet (still no harm in some friendly competition though ;))

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Collectively, Ride for Android users have already stacked up a total 268km (166miles) using the app :) the beta only opened up a few days ago so this is really cool.

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Was just checking out a review (by @DKwan) of the Flexway Wave (👀) and Ride was in it 😍

The board looks pretty sick tbh. I’ve barely touched my longboards since getting the Mini X so probs best for me to stick with shorter boards like the Wave https://t.co/mDnRgNXjmr

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Happy to announce the Ride for Android beta is now open to anyone who wants to try it! You can join the beta here: https://t.co/z0XvmfVGgH

You can leave the beta at any time by visiting the same link. In a few days, after keeping an eye on crashes etc, I'll release v1 fully.

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@fronk @exwayboard6 I try my best! Thanks!

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@realAliHN Sorry, hopefully soon. I'm hoping to open it up to a public beta this week/weekend, and then shortly after release properly the first version :)

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I’ve decided that although Ride for Android doesn’t look very Ride branded, I’m going to open it up to an open beta very soon and release v1 shortly after.

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Tip: you can make the persistent Ride notification (required for reconnecting) less annoying by tweaking the settings so the notification gets added to the silent section and collapsed by default :)

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@Stuart_Talbot I don’t think it does live chats on Reddit right? That’s where most stuff is but I don’t think there’s an API for it for 3rd party apps yet. Not sure if that works with Discord either 🤔

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I’m generally really bad at replying to DMs or posts on Twitter and Reddit and I want to improve that. It’s tricky because I end up just using all my free time for coding rather than replying, but I know that replying to you all is important too :)

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Before I can release v1 I have a few minor things to do:
- improved GPS filtering + a fix few ride tracking bugs (already in progress)
- anonymous analytics so I can keep track of stats like how far everyone has travelled combined
- a few other bits like new version notifications

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Two reasons for this:
- people deserve a working app for their Boosted products, more than a perfectly designed app
- by opening it up and releasing it asap, I’m going to get more usage feedback from more people, which will help make the app better

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(Because now I spend about 50% of my time using an Android phone to make Ride).

I hope I can get better at this for you all✌️

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So my plan is to set up my iPad (which tbh I don’t really use that much) so that all the channels of conversation I have with you awesome people (Twitter, Reddit, Discord) are the only notifications my iPad shows me, rather than randomly with other notifications on my phone(s)

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Oh wow the whole time it was a feature in the Boosted app I missed lol you have to long-press on the light icon to get the options. I had no idea. Assume it’s the same for Beams with more options?

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Turns out you can control the brightness of the Rev’s light 👀👀👀 also didn’t realise that Beams use the same Bluetooth characteristics as the Rev’s lights which means Ride for Android already supports Beams if I’m not mistaken :)