Amtrak App for Android Updated Today

[TinCan782]

Other than appearance, any difference?

Haven't discovered any yet.

Still no display of tickets via AGR redemption unless you search via "Trip Lookup". Its easier for me to just bring up the PDF on my phone.

Actually, its usually easier to just pull a folded hard copy out of my pocket :giggle:

 

[PaulM]

I still don't see a way to save the eTicket code for use when you don't have an internet connection. If I go to "Upcoming Trips", "Trip details" for a selected trip and then "view eTicket", there is no way to save it.

If I back up to trip details, one of the menu items is "share", which I always thought was google-speak for "get a life". But one of the options is "ES Save to ...". Since ES refers to Android's file explorer, I selected it and chose where I wanted to save it, and hit "Select". But nothing happened.

I did discover that I can do a screenshot of the eTicket and it automatically goes to a folder called "screenshots". The eTicket page shows the code that the conductor scans, but only the first segment of a mult-segment reservation. If you do a screenshot of "trip details", you get all segments and the reservation number, but not the code.

I'm sure either will work, but why not do it right?

Rhetorical question: are droids (and i'Ers) that much smarter than us old fogey Windows PC and website users? It doesn't take all that much smarts to use windows as long as you you know what you want to do because most windows programs adhere to a standardized common user interface. On the other it seems like you have to belong to a secret society to use phones and tablets.

 

[Ryan]

Windows standardized interface? Loosely, at best. OS X and iOS are far more standardized.

 

[jis]

Actually, an iPhone was the first system where upon getting my first one with a completely new and unfamiliar interface, I never required a manual to learn any of it. It just flowed pretty naturally. Compared to that Windows is a nightmare even going from one release to another of late. Everything seems to move from one place to another just to confuse everyone. Even more true with the gyrations that they have been going through with MS Office of late.

 

[Acela150]

iPhone app updated as well.

 

[Devil's Advocate]

Rhetorical question: are droids (and i'Ers) that much smarter than us old fogey Windows PC and website users? It doesn't take all that much smarts to use windows as long as you you know what you want to do because most windows programs adhere to a standardized common user interface. On the other it seems like you have to belong to a secret society to use phones and tablets.

Even though you say this is a rhetorical question I'll bite anyway. In my view iOS is just about the most standardized ecosystem you can find. I have managed to learn both iOS and Android without trouble but switching between them still involves unlearning my current process and relearning the other way of doing things. Besides having to remember a few unfortunate key swaps I don't have much trouble switching between Windows and OSX for daily tasks. However if I need to pop the hood and work with the CLI my command of OSX is a bit too limited to be fully productive. Windows will probably always seem easiest to me, if for no other reason that Windows was what I learned first and worked with the longest, but I've seen first hand how difficult it can be for new users to fully master it.

 

[Chucktin]

Can't we please leave the OS wars?

 

[Ryan]

Feel free to read another thread.

On the command line, ease of use is all about what you're used to, I think. I do love the "go edit a text file" for scripting and changing of settings that OS X's unixey underpinnings brings to the table.

 

[ronkstevens]

I thought the "share" option will put your reservation in your calendar (phone, Google, or whatever one you use) and it stores an appointment in your calendar with your trip information and reservation number.

 

[Shanghai]

I like the new website.

 

[CHamilton]

Android Central selects the Amtrak app as a "pick of the week."