New study screen [Official thread]

AnkiDroid (Android) Help
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The 2.23 version of AnkiDroid (currently in alpha) features a new and improved study screen. This thread is intended to serve as the official location for feedback about it.

Bugs should be reported on GitHub.

If you like it and want to further contribute with its development, you can donate to help us maintain the work :heart:.

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New features and improvements

  • Performance
    • It’s faster, lighter and more reliable
  • Compatibility
    • It uses the same shared style and rendering mechanism of Anki and AnkiMobile
    • Now cards should work the same way among the platforms, which fixes persistence between front & back, and a lot of broken note types.
    • There are minor style changes that are a consequence of that, like margin changes and the coloring of play buttons in dark mode.
  • Gestures
    • Compatible with buttons, controls, and other interactable elements in cards!
    • New multi-finger gestures
  • Immersive mode
    • Better support for modern phones and newer Android versions
    • Added option to hide the system’s status bar, navigation bar or both
    • Added option to ignore the Display cutout
  • Answer feedback
    • Replaced the dot-based answer feedback with new icons
    • Wrong answers are on the left, and the correct answers are on the right. That way, there is feedback about the answer without even looking at the indicator.
    • It also helps indirectly explaining to the user that ‘Hard’ is a correct answer, which is a broad confusion point in the community.
    • There’s also an option to disable it if you don’t want it.
  • New Whiteboard
    • Custom brushes: you can save brushes with an specific color and size to easily re-use them in multiple cards
    • Set custom toolbar position
    • Ink and Stroke eraser modes
    • Better stylus support
  • Reformulated visuals
    • It’s possible to restore the previous frame style, by changing it to the ˋBoxˋ option.
  • Tablet/Foldable/Desktop dedicated design
  • Toolbar
    • More intuitive action selection
    • Toolbar actions can be reordered
    • Toolbar actions scroll if they don’t fit the screen.
    • Added option to put it at the bottom of the screen
  • Auto-advance
    • Fixed behavior of not following the deck configuration when going to a different deck in the study screen.
  • Type-in answer
    • Improved support for the ˋHTMLˋ type-in input setting
  • New ‘Browse’ and ‘Statistics’ commands
    • quickly open other screens while studying
  • Hide ‘Hard’ and ‘Easy’ buttons setting

Changed/Missing features

  • The card counts and timer are now in the toolbar
  • Flag and mark icons are in the screen top corners, just like Anki and AnkiMobile
  • As an accessibility setting, the answer button size can only be made bigger, not smaller.

Can be add-ons

Won’t be back as native features, but can be implemented as JavaScript add-ons by the community

  • Show deck title
    • Also replaceable by adding ˋ{{Deck}}ˋ in the card template
  • Show ETA
  • Image Zoom
  • Show large answer buttons
  • Center align

Won’t be back

  • Press back twice to go back/exit
    • A setting like that is made to mitigate navigation problems within the app, but it shouldn’t be necessary. If that’s your case, please report your issue so we can take a look
  • Answer buttons position > Top
    • It is not ergonomic, and it is replaceable by gestures.
  • (old) Text to Speech (TTS)
    • It was replaced a long time ago with the Anki Ecossystem TTS system, and marked with a deprecation warning. It’s time to go. We will provide a guide on how to migrate.

What will happen with the old study screen?

It won’t get any new features, and only critical issues will be fixed.

Our current intention is to only remove the old study screen when most of its deprecated features and behaviors are implemented as add-ons in the new study screen by the community, so it doesn’t interfere with the users’ workflow.

But that may happen sooner if maintaining it becomes unsustainable,

Please remember that AnkiDroid is a free and open-source app, made by volunteers in their scarce free time. Keeping two screens with the same functionality isn’t sustainable in the long term, so the old study screen will eventually be gone.

Loved it? Any donation will help us improve even more the new study screen :heart_eyes:.

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Don’t forget the new JS API methods:

  • Changing the background color of the reviewer.
  • Getting the revlog of any card given its ID.
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I don’t see an option for the “reset card progress” button, is it coming back?

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That’s not an option in the old study screen either. You can still open the browser and reset there.

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It is. It’s under the Schedule menu option.

Forgot about that. I’ll implement it.

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Can I know how to enable the “Center align” option in the new study screen?

I tried doing it with CSS, but it did not work properly.

Does anyone know how to fix this? :thinking:

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Regarding the new “Deck options” button:

I thought what it opened was the deck options for the card I just reviewed, so I made changes, then I finally realized after some time that was actually the options for the parent deck I clicked on for the study session.

Because the deck options screen doesn’t show which deck you’re modifying, it can be misleading.

Either the deck name needs to be shown, or the new study screen settings needs to be more descriptive of what this button does, or make it so that this button does change the options for the deck the card belongs to (I want this, it makes this button more useful.)

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that has been the behavior of the old and new study screens since their beginnings, so there’s nothing new here. The desktop does the same thing. Also, actually all the actions apply to the current card (besides the obvious “Previous card info” command), which is the expected behavior, and that hasn’t been a source of complaints until now.

If you feel like that, some of the options are already described:

  1. Use {{Deck}} on your templates
  2. Keep using the old study screen until add-ons aren’t implemented.
  3. Get used to the fact that the command applies to the current card and either use Undo or Browse if you want to go to the previous card
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Whenever the “current” deck and the card’s subdeck are different, desktop Anki gives you a choice of which Options preset you want to open –

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– and it also shows you the deck name at the top of the Options window, which I don’t believe AnkiDroid does. That presents challenges for deck-specific settings.

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This is not my problem. My complaint was the deck options command does not apply to the current card (belonging to a subdeck of a different preset), but rather the parent deck.
I was not aware it existed in the old study screen too. I didn’t know the old screen had this option.