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@Riot Mobile Device Support

CaptainWednesday·5/1/2014, 2:32:55 PM·7 votes·553 views

Hello there Community and Rioter that may be reading this! I'm not sure if this has been raised on the Community Beta Forums yet, so I'd like to kick it off. Let me explain.

I was in the dining hall of my university yesterday and I wanted to see if I got any replies to my post on the 'Sexuality and League' topic (which is really interesting topic to read over if you've got some downtime). My laptop was back in my office at work, so I tried to pull up the site on my iPhone 4 (it's ancient I know). To start, the loading of the site was so slow. Typically sites load within seconds on my phone, but this one took around ~30 seconds for everything to load. After loading, I tried to login. This is where things became really buggy. The login window/element was floating all around the page. For the life of me, I could not get it centered to type my info in. After a few minutes of fidgeting and zooming in and out, I finally logged in. Another thirty seconds passed for the site to load. After making my way to the updates, I clicked on the reply comment. It took awhile to load the comments and even longer for my reply to be posted because I constantly had to move the zoom camera around to see what I was typing.

Point being, the site was difficult to use in a mobile setting. If you guys have had any issues using the Community Beta site on a mobile device, post it here because I want to see if I'm just crazy or not.

Moreover, do you good folks at Riot have any plans to improve the CB for mobile use? Some websites have a desktop and a mobile alternative, do you guys have this in mind? On a relative note, does Riot have any plans to release an Official League of Legends mobile application? Just some things I'd like to know about because I really like discussing things on the CB, but I am not always near a CPU to do so.

5 Comments

Sir ArmaMalum5/1/2014, 2:48:54 PM4 votes

This has been asked about and for before, but as someone who uses their phone to visit the CB quite often I am very much a supporter of this.

It's honestly the log-process that gets me, everything else is somewhat bearable, but as you said the log-in window never works well and always manages to get itself buried by the keypad, making the long captcha code a absolute nightmare to enter.

A separate Android and Apple store App for phones would be probably the easiest thing to do as the Beta team has access to the entire platform, the browser on the phones from what I understand is very hard to work with sometimes. Getting an alert anytime you get an update, custom virtual keyborad with the toolbar integrated in......could be so nice. (Possible Thunderdome project???)

Rhyto5/2/2014, 2:07:59 PM1 votes

There's a job for Mobile app developers listed as "Android Developer" not sure if this helps but for those looking for a job in the Mobile department, that's the only job there at this time.