This app has been tested on Android and iPhone. The user interface has been to work on phones as small an iPhone 5/SE. On Android it works just fine on Firefox and Chrome. For Android, it works best (seemingly) if you have at least version 9 on your device. This offers the best feature set and supports a version of Chrome with better options. Although the app works in Opera, MS Edge, and Dolphin browsers, they do not offer the opportunity to ‘Install’ the app. On iPhone it has been tested in Safari and Chrome.
The app has been designed to run as a PWA (Progressive Web App). This is a cool bit of tech introduced to allow Web Apps, like this scoring app, to look and behave like a native app on your phone. Some cool tech bits have been assembled to enable this. If you look at the browser menu in both FF and Chrome, there should be an option to Install the app on the phone (Android – Install or Install app, iPhone – Share – Add to Home Screen).
This gives two benefits:-
- The application will install to the App Drawer (Chrome) and also on the home screen
- The application can be ‘pinned’ to the screen
Screen pinning is an important feature if you wish to leave your device on a table unsupervised. When the app is pinned to the screen it stays on the screen with no unlock necessary. However, no user can see anything but the app without entering your password, pattern or fingerprint. You can leave the device on a table with complete security. Here is a link on how to enable screen pinning on your device.
However, if you do not have Screen Pinning as an option, or if you have not ‘installed’ the app, you can still use the app and in this instance, perhaps you wish to run it in ‘Player Mode’ rather than leaving the device on one of the game tables. In Player Mode, the device stays with the player rather than with the table. If you wish to use ‘Player Mode’ it must be noted that pretty much every player or pair must have a device that is connected to the game.