Sonos Android app - has it improved?

That question really depends upon your point of view. The app is nowhere near the degree of flux it was in back in May, 2024. However, as with any software/app there will always be things about it that to some are insignificant and to others a degree of concern and/or disdain. 

I’m primarily an iOS user but have an Android tablet for testing. IMO iOS has always been a bit more stable for Sonos; but that’s not to say that with Android it has a mirid of issues. I think that if you look throughout the community, you won’t find iOS nor Android outpacing the other with community member complaints. 

Bottom-line IMO the Android app is stable offering a pleasant user-experience. YMMV for as I said in the beginning “it depends upon your point of view”. 

I’ve posted elsewhere but might be useful here.

Up until a couple of days ago I was still using the old S2 app (pre May 2014 disaster).

I'm now on the latest version and for my current usage it works OK. The app is speedy and there’s no lag when changing values or stations on my speakers. I will say that I’m only listening to internet radio stations these days so this isn’t an extensive “review”.

I’m not over keen on the design and UI but time will tell. Having been a software developer for over 30 years I’m probably a lot more citical on design issues than others?

There seems to be an extra step when changing radio stations. On the old system I could click on a radio favourite and it would play on the room that I currently had selected but now I have to select the room after selecting the station - maybe I’ve not spotted an option somewhere to prevent this?

I do like the way it changes volume using the phone volume buttons. It now does it in 1 increments whereas the old app used to do it in 3 increments if memory serves me right.

The mute button also works a lot quicker than on the old app for my system.

The biggest thing holding me back (and I'm still genuinely astonished it's still lacking) is we still can't take the queue and save it as a Sonos Playlist. This was a huge issue for our NYE party (at a family member’s who has updated) where we needed to power down the speakers to move them and we had no way to (easily) save the queue that everyone had spent some hours contributing to, power down and then load it back in again.

I’ve just had an update on iPad app that says you can now save your queue as a playlist.

Could be great news if it's a new update and also (or imminently) on Android too.

EDIT:looks like it's a part of the new Android update, just announced.  It could be where it's phased too, even after installing the update.

I’ve just this minute had an update on my Android phone which gives the same release notes saying save queue to playlist

Have you also run the matching ‘player’ (which I call firmware) update on your speakers? Accessed from inside your controller?

Just doing it now. Thanks for the heads-up

No promises, mind you, I’ve no idea if this ‘feature’ is associated with a rollout by Sonos separate from the software/firmware rollout, but it is worth double checking ;)