Over the past few weeks we've seen people start to have problems with the Course of Study (CoS) views within PocketWGU. The short version is that some of the CoS pages from WGU were getting so complex (tons of JavaScript, CSS, and embedded iFrames) that the stock web browser on some Android version simply couldn't keep up. The result was that many of the links and buttons within these pages simply stopped working. This wasn't limited to PocketWGU, many of these pages wouldn't work from the normal web browser on some devices running Android 4.0. Someting had to give...
To fix this, the DevTeam completely rewrote the subsystem that handles CoS. PocketWGU's new CoS viewer strips away most of the page complexity to only show the actual CoS content, and its table of contents. The latter is now hidden behind a link at the top of each CoS page, and can be expanded/collapsed by tapping this link. The new system seems to restore the function of links in the CoS, and in our opinion, provides a view of the CoS that is far easier to read on mobile devices. When the main CoS view loads, it is fully zoomed into the CoS content and everything else is "out of the way". It also seems to load a bit faster as we don't retrieve all the CSS and JavaScript of the native site.
We hope you like, and be sure to keep the bug reports (and the nice reviews :-) coming.
PocketWGU DevTeam
Oh, and look for a new build for the BlackBerry PlayBook and for the Kindle Fire in the coming week.
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