
Version 2.3.0 (543)
Friday, November 4th, 2022
⭐ New
- Wildlife and ice profiles are now displayed in Indigenous dialects
- Eeyou Istchee Cree and Greenland Indigenous Place Names added to the map
👍 Other Improvements
- Feed items show types of photos
- New Map Layers button design
- Privacy settings icon previews
- Syllabics support for Indigenous places names on the map
- Updated Ice & Snow Post design
- Bug fixes & performance improvements
Version 2.2.3 (517)
Monday, August 29th, 2022
⭐ New
- Added multiple image support to all photo fields
👍 Improved
- Improved permission checking
- Post Bottom sheet design updates
- Fixed an issue that prevented some survey posts from uploading uploading
- Bug fixes
Version 2.2.2 (496)
Thursday, July 7, 2022
👍 Improved
- Updated Facebook Login SDK to the latest version
- Bug fixes and optimizations
Version 2.2.1(492)
Friday, July 1st, 2022
👍 Improved
- Show Eider Survey post sheet, tracks and nests on the map when opened from the saved tab
- Bug fixes and optimizations
Version 2.2.0 (487)
Friday, June 24, 2022
⭐️ New
- Added a button to change the species or type of post after you have made it and before it is uploaded to SIKU
- Redesigned the wildlife post details on the map
👍 Improved
- Videos added from the gallery are now compressed for faster and more reliable uploading
- Increased the size of all post icons and updated them with a fresh design
- Updated the Eider Survey post type to the new design
- Bug fixes and optimizations
Version 2.1.0 (468)
Friday, May 6, 2022
⭐ New
- Media shortcut buttons in post creation allow for quickly adding photos and videos to your post
- Simplified post creation to prioritize recommended text fields for each species
👍 Improvements
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
Version 2.0.1 (447)
Wednesday, March 17th, 2022
⭐ New
- Full Access to Maps and Satellite Imagery
- SIKU Base Map combines topography and ocean charts made specifically for Indigenous communities
- SIKU Ice Map combines ice charts, radar data and ice posts to provide a holistic view of the ice for Indigenous communities
- High-resolution visual satellite imagery including Sentinel 2-3, Landsat 8-9 and MODIS
- Sentinel 1 Radar Imagery
- Ice Watch posts are viewable on all maps
- Easily access most-recent and historical imagery for all supported maps
- Download Maps for Offline Use On The Land
- Automatically download the SIKU Base Map of your community’s surrounding area or chose a custom region
- New Post Creation experience
- Streamlined icon-based visual design
- Easily filter wildlife by taxonomic group
- New Trip Creation Experience
- New trip drawer displays time, speed and distance directly on the map
- Edit details while trip is ongoing
- View trip posts on the map
- Automatically record location using GPS or mark location on the map
- New Post Privacy options
- Increased Wildlife Measurement fields
- Insect Trap Tool
- Document insect collections
- New App Icon
👍 Improvements
- Other bug fixes and improvements across the entire app
Version 1.2.16 (399)
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
⭐ New
- Document ships in nearby waters with the new Ship Observation tool
👍 Improvements
- Blocked users now sync between devices
- Finishing trips is more reliable
- Wildlife names with dashes are no longer cut off in feed items
- Removing community tags from social posts is fixed
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
Version 1.2.15 (388)
Friday, July 9th, 2021
👍 Improvements
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
- Browser Nav bar design updated
- Disable Finish trip button when trip not running
- Social post map drawer icon fix
- Disabled Mapbox tilting
- Other bug fixes and Improvements
Version 1.2.14 (384)
Thursday, June 24th, 2021
⭐ New
- Eider Nest Survey Tool
- In-app support messaging
- Support for account deletion
👍 Improvements
- Trips are more reliable
- Push notifications are more reliable
- General bug fixes and stability improvements
Version 1.2.13 (367)
Monday, April 19th, 2021
⭐ New
- Push notifications – get notified when your posts are liked or commented on
- Display and contribute to ice types and wildlife species in multiple Inuktut dialects
- Support for the SIKU + SmartICE 2021 Ice Watch – added Ice Watch stewardship, profile, feed and map
👍 Improved
- Standardized the date/time format across the app
- Fixed multiple issues when posting comments
- Displays more communities using Inuktut name
- Addressed sort order of profiles
- Updated Goose Watch profile
- Added support for video playback in the map drawer
- Increased responsiveness of liking and commenting on posts
- Addressed an issue when connected to a cellular network with no internet
- Improved password reset experience
- Enforced name validation during account creation
- Refactored how the about tab of profiles is shown
- Adjusted headline spacing to make it easier to tap profile links
- Improved snack-bar messaging when features require online access
- Other bug fixes and improvements
Version 1.2.12 (349)
Friday, March 12th, 2021
👍 Improvements
- Ice measurements fixes
- Other bug fixes
Version 1.2.11 (344)
Thursday, January 6th, 2021
⭐ New
- View your project and organization membership status while offline in “Edit Profile”
- Created a new stewardship confirmation menu after saving a post to confirm project stewardship
- Support for viewing SmartQAMUTIK posts in feed with screenshots of the track
- Full support for SmartBUOY post creation, feed items and tool profile
- Posts can now be reported to SIKU administrators in feed items and map drawers
- Added setting to blocks specific user’s posts from appearing in your feed
👍 Improvements
- Addressed an issue where dangerous Ice posts appeared as ice observations
- Fixed a bug where opening a profile wouldn’t correctly load the feed
- Improve design of favourites menu
- Fixed issues with trip post-editing
- Other bug fixes
Version 1.2.10 (331)
Saturday, October 31st, 2020
👍 Improvements
• Fixed a bug where the app would sometimes crash when the device goes offline
• Improved performance for users with lots of posts in their saved tab.
• Implemented check to ensure proper email address is entered during account creation.
• Updated the alert which appears if the app crashes while recording a trip.
Version 1.2.9 (327)
Friday, October 16th, 2020
⭐ New
- Added the data source for traditional place names to the map
👍 Improvements
- Addressed an issue where some wildlife profile photos were displaying incorrectly
- Added a link to the SIKU support site in the Explore Tab
- Added new field to the Den wildlife post creation flow
- Addressed an issue where Tool Posts Unit system wasn’t being respected
- Improved support for time-lapse and water sample tools in the map drawer
- All photo can now be tapped to enter fullscreen
- Added the ability to change/remove videos added to social posts after they have been captured
Version 1.2.8 (1000322)
Friday, September 11th, 2020
⭐ New
- Added Nunavik Traditional Place Names to the map
- Added support for 3 featured photos
- Video support for social posts
- Image uploads now support captions
👍 Improvements
- Added like and locate buttons to map drawer
- Updated post uploading to be more reliable
- Added post-editing save button
- Fixed an issue where some profiles were not downloading properly
- Added missing fields during post-editing
- Added missing panels in the map drawer
- Stability and performance improvements
Version 1.2.7 (1000313)
Friday, July 31st, 2020
👍 Improvements
- Image processing and management enhancements
- Storage optimization
- Video Player UI update
- Update SQ Icon
- Compression of all images before uploading
- Bug fixes and improvements
Version 1.2.6 (1000308)
Tuesday, July 7th, 2020
👍 Improvements
- Bug Fixes
Version 1.2.5 (215)
Friday, July 3rd, 2020
👍 Improvements
- Refactored user settings sync
- Support for choosing images from the gallery in Android 10
- Bug fixes and improvements
Version 1.2.4 (213)
Thursday, May 28th, 2020
⭐ New
- Goose Watch Map
- Map nows shows users position with compass arrow indicating directions
👍 Improvements
- Other bug fixes
Version 1.2.3 (212)
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
⭐ New
- Added Goose Watch Competition Video, Information and Feed
👍 Improvements
- New passwords now require 6 characters
- Updated Terms of Use wording
- Added alerts for location services and battery saver mode
- Optimized database reduce storage space required
- Fixed an issue while editing posts where deleting a single character would cause a crash
- Other bug fixes
Version 1.2.2 (Build 211)
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
👍 Improvements
- Social Post Map drawer now uses the correct user icon
- Error messages are now more understandable
- Passwords now require a minimum of 6 characters
- Fix for Android 10 photo permissions bug
- Fix for Android 10 location permission bug
- Other bug fixes & performance enhancements
Version 1.2.1 (210)
Friday, April 24th, 2020
⭐ New
- Create Social Posts on the app
- Share posts to Facebook and Twitter
👍 Improvements
- Limited support for SmartQAMUTIK posts in feeds
- Added the about tab to most profiles
- Added checks for Airplane mode, location services, storage permissions
- Other bug fixes & performance enhancements