- Map/ shows a map of all upcoming Forró events.
- Events/ allows you to browse upcoming Forró events by country and city.
- Hosts/ gives a listing of hosts organizing Forró events.
Motivation for a lite version
We built this lite version, because the following principles where hard to achieve within the regular app:- Sustainability: The regular app's underlying frameworks and libraries became more and more resource hungry with each release. Furthermore they regularily drop support for older android/ios versions. We don't want to exclude people who can't (e.g. for financial reasons) or refuse to (e.g. for environmental reasons) replace their phone every x years just to display a simple list of events.
- Accessibility: The flutter framework and its web canvas renderer does not lend itself to screen readers, visual modifications (such as high-contrast modes) or viewing on special devices. These features are vital for visually impaired people.
- ical support: We always wanted to provide a way to publish the events as ical. This allows users to subscribe to the events using their favourite calendar application without being forced to use the app. Unfortunately, ical publishing turned out to be difficult to implement with the location+radius approach of the regular app.
- Filter by country: A community member wished to be able to filter events by country. The regular app only supports filtering by position/location + radius.
Comparison of lite and regular version
| feature | lite | regular |
|---|---|---|
| Browse events by country/city | yes | no |
| Browse events by location + radius | no | yes |
| Browse hosts | yes | yes |
| Create/edit events | no | yes |
| Fav events | no | yes |
| Read community feed | no | yes |
| Works on old devices | yes | no |
| Screenreader friendly | yes | no |
| Subscribe to events using ical | yes | no |
| Display events on a map | yes | not yet |