Beta
Field Watch is a release candidate. It works on emulators. What it needs now is time on real phones, in real conditions.
Getting started
- Install it from the Download page and check the certificate first.
- If you used the Preview, move your records over with the backup and restore steps there.
- Try the tools with made-up notes before you rely on them.
Sending feedback
Feedback goes through the private Signal beta group. If you’re not in it yet, ask the person who shared Field Watch with you for an invite.
Useful to include:
- Phone model and Android version
- Which Field Watch version you installed
- What you did, what you expected, and what happened instead
Leave out real names, addresses, client details and anything from your own notes. Describe the problem instead.
Screenshots of Field Watch come out blank. That’s on purpose, so describe the screen in words.
Most useful to test
These haven’t been checked on a real phone yet:
- Watch with the screen off for an hour or more, and how much battery it uses
- Watch reading Not confirmed until it has actually heard something, and saying why when it can’t listen
- Away mode on a phone left alone: which events it records with the screen off
- Lock when I leave the app: coming back from Recents and the launcher, and locking when the screen turns off
- Importing resources from a large PDF: speed, and the preview screen
- Readability in sunlight and at the largest system font size, in light and dark
- Back from every screen, with gestures and with three-button navigation