The SMH App for Tablet

The app only gives 20 of the 25 questions in the good weekend quiz. I presume it was coded back when the quiz was 20 questions and just needs to be updated. I use the app from Qld so I can't get the paper copy to check. Please update the app, then happy to edit this. Additionally, why is there no android phone app when you have an iPhone app? Edit - the email address for giving feedback bounced. You're not giving the impression you care about paying subscribers. Edit 2 - why on earth does the iPad version have the crossword and this doesn't? Does Apple have a controlling share in Fairfax now?

Can someone please explain where the crossword is? You have had literally years to fix this. It has been on the ipad for years. Why not your android version? Now everyday it is trumpeted about your new iPad app. How about actually fixing real problems and shortcomings in the Android app like no crossword and the date on the front page regularly being wrong.

In comparison to the IOS equivalent, this app is very poor. No live news, crosswords, buggy, doesn't fit on the screen correctly, and the list goes on. Appears that there's been no update in 2.5 years or so. Makes me think Fairfax doesn't care for android users. In an age where print media is dying, you would think they would get their digital media spot on.

Once the comments on an article have been opened, read and closed, those comments become fixed, i.e. they will reopen unchanged for each subsequent article that has comments. The only workaround for this is to close and reopen the app to get the relevant comments for each newly read article. Very annoying, especially for an avid comments reader. Just as annoying.... Still no Crosswords!!

The SMH std web site (normal browser) has been improved. It actually works with minimal delays and you can mark stories to download for offline reading. As well as the option of the daily paper on Android. Much better than this app. Maybe this app will be fixed one day :-) Maybe too much work in Android.

SMH is a terrible news app. Can't see the pictures, can't enlarge the pictures. Comments don't work. The menu planner in good food crashes every time. The tech section is not updated every day. The news is often old and out of date. No alerts or breaking news. Try Guardian Australia or Daily Mail Australia for better apps and they are free.

I continue to be disappointed in the bugginess of this app. I have been paying for access for 3 years and it still lacks many features of the apple version. Even worse ,they keep telling me how great the apple version is and the updates they plan. No sign of updates of the Android version.

The only decent things were sudoku and the target word, and now the target word has gone. Possibly the worst professional app I've used.

I'm unable to use the embedded links in the app to subscribe to SMH on a new Huawei Mediapad M3 tablet. I attempted to use the feedback link in the app to report the problem but it's tied to an address that's unknown to the SMH mail servers. Very sloppy. The app is ok for the small amount of free SMH content. Unclear whether the app provides the SMH crosswords or not.

SMH is a terrible news app. Can't see the pictures, can't enlarge the pictures. Comments don't work. The menu planner in good food crashes every time. The tech section is not updated every day. The news is often old and out of date. No alerts or breaking news. Try Guardian Australia or Daily Mail Australia for better apps and they are free.

Since I reloaded my Samsung tablet I can't log in to this app. I called SMH and they told me to log in to it via a browser. I don't want to do it this way, Why does this app no longer work? I pay for it but I cant use it. I'm not happy.............

Android app is NOT comparable with iOS version. Four complaints: 1. Image height exceeds Android height, needs to be contantly scrolled. 2. Only downloads incomplete file, after readind several pages, following pages are blank white. Deleting and re-downloading shows a few more pages before problem recurs. 3. My wife's iPad version shows Breaking News, not on Android. 4. The Feedback option is to androidtablet@smh.com.au which is no longer existent. Phone call to SMH Customer Service responded: " Use our website to download a pdf version, app is no longer recommended/supported." But the pdf is a shocker, hopeless on a mini-tablet. Can Google "ask" SMH to fix the app that bears their name, the ratings do them no credit, shameful for a quality newspaper. Alan Richards

Over the past several months my whole smh experience has been going downhill. The android version is incomplete; the online version takes forever to load, and now I keep getting told that I have exceeded the maximum number of logins and have to endure a torrid process of logging back in. I use a desktop at home, a laptop at work, a tablet on the train and a phone when out and about. Surely Fairfax can come up with a way to recognise that these devices are all mine! Right now the Guardian's a better bet.

The app only gives 20 of the 25 questions in the good weekend quiz. I presume it was coded back when the quiz was 20 questions and just needs to be updated. I use the app from Qld so I can't get the paper copy to check. Please update the app, then happy to edit this. Additionally, why is there no android phone app when you have an iPhone app?

I don't think I will continue with it as am unable to access several important SMH features The ipad app is superior so surely this could be updated/improved

I can't believe Fairfax still haven't got crosswords on their Android app. Seriously, wtf? They've been "working on it" for three years!

Poor quality app. Content often fails to display, requiring restart. Annoying.

I like the content, however the app continually freezes. Tried restarting and reinstalling. No help.

Asks for sub number. When entered doesn't work. Time to uninstall this rubbish forever.

The iPad app has the Newspaper Replica Edition but the Android App does not. I will be unsubscribing unless this feature is added.

Needs updating to ipad functionality

I can't get crosswords or TV programs. My husband's Ipad can, so why can't this app?

1) 1/5 of the screen on my tablet is wasted because it does not resize. 2) Regularly freezes and the only option is to exit and start again. 3) The formatting is all wonky, part of the heading text cuts off (not a big deal). 4) 1-3 times a reading session the page does not resolve correctly and just looks like a flow of text and pictures - like the style sheet is stuck. Did anyone at the SMH actually user test this on various devices? Does not look like it. I cancelled my subscription because it was so poor. Perhaps most of their subscribers are IOS, but this is likely to be self selecting as the Andriod users opt out.

I love the idea of being able to read the paper on my tablet but this app consistently lets me down. It frequently loses the content; to become just a blank screen; its unresponsive when i want to read a story; and i hate the way i have to manually refresh the content. Please, Fairfax, spend some time and money on your customers who use Android.

I've been waiting for this for months. How happy i was when i discovered it finally existed. so... i download it, install it and log in with my pre-existing subscription. You can imagine my anger to realise that a paid subscription does not work with this app. i now need to buy an app based subscription to conveniently view content i have already paid for. Thank you fairfax for attempting to make me pay for the same content twice. There are other newspapers out there.

Where's the crosswords? I've just changed from ipad to Android and no crosswords. Many reader's review ask the same question but no reply from Fairfax. I will be cancelling subscription and looking elsewhere

The SMH is too iOS centric. Android - too hard? Get an email from them to check out the new features. Fine if you are running iOS.

Fairfax Media why is this app so stogie and clunky? As long term subscribers we have paid increasing monthly fees for digital access and weekend papers delivered. The Guardian puts you to shame in terms of presentation, content and price. Do you no longer care or perhaps you just want us to walk away? Please let us know when you plan to meet modern standards.

Get crosswords on the android platform for starters

Needs a digital edition like the Oz. And theapp is so glitchy

Needs updating to ipad functionality

... doesn't the SMH Android app include crosswords? I do miss my daily fix.

Better than the mobile site

The latest version has mostly fixed the layout issues, but it's still abundantly clear that whoever is writing the app doesn't read the SMH with it! There is still no crossword, and the scrolling/swiping behaviour is trigger-happy, I suspect the app development has been outsourced offshore, it's certainly not a 1st world product at present. Oct 2015: No updates to this app for over a year and the bugs are still there. I got so fed up with this I wrote my own app to read the content - it's called Fairfox and it's in the Play Store. It works on phones too!

What's the matter with you SMH. I am able to access the real version of your newspaper on my ipad instead of this app. The app is terrible , it does not provide the real newspaper experience. I won't be back.

I use this app every day on my Nexus 9 and it works great - having just received the Pixel C, I'm disappointed to see that it doesn't scale correctly. I understand its a new resolution/aspect ratio, but this device would be perfect for viewing SMH. Please fix and I'll update this back to 5*

This app on android was fine with only one annoying flaw where it would randomly forget which order I had set it to view content. Now it's logging me out randomly and doesn't let me log back in again without restarting the app. I don't know if this was just me or due to an update, but it's made it extremely frustating to use.

One really annoying thing is the inability to copy text e.g addresses mentioned in articles. No crosswords yet.

What would be a decent application is ruined by a frustrating bug that sometimes blanks all content upon returning from a story, requiring the app to be restarted. This happens several times a day! I've tried reinstalling, but no help. I'm frankly sick of using it, and will be cancelling my subscription shortly. A facsimile edition should also be available. SMH, of you expect to earn loyalty and survive as a company you need to do better. I have a nexus 10 with the latest Android.... I have persisted with the app, but 4 months later and still vanishing content. And now I am also being for edu to log in every time as well. Very disappointing. Deleting app and cancelling subscription. Bye

I won't use this app anymore. There are now ads hovering on pages which obscure the article. When I click the X to close the ad, I am deceptively taken to the product advertised. This is not a mis-tap; the X highlights when I tap it, and this same behaviour happens every time. Returning to the SMH app with the back button, the ad still remains. I can't dismiss it, and I can't read the article. I've stuck it out since the first version of this app, but no more. I've had it. It's one thing after another. Uninstalled. Samsung Galaxy Tab 4.