NewsFeed Launcher changelog

Changelog

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ver 28.0.1

• Improved light wallpaper compatibility
• Monochrome icon related bug fixes

ver 28.0.0

• Android 15 support
• Private profile support on Android 15
• Uses the more efficient RenderEffect for blur on Android13+
• Link to the new user documentation
• Improved startup performance
• Option to show the dock on the NewsFeed's page
• Ability to set column count for the app drawer separately
• Ability to set vertical padding for desktop
• Preview in icon pack picker
• Ability to create gradient monochrome icon backgrounds
• Bug fixes for color theme editor
• Ability to disable the NewsFeed
• The app list folder's icon limit removed
• Diacritic insensitive search in the NewsFeed
• Smaller bug fixes

ver 28.0.0-beta03

• Ability to disable the NewsFeed
• Bug fixes

ver 28.0.0-beta02

• Private profile support on Android 15
• Improved startup performance
• Option to show the dock on the NewsFeed's page
• Ability to set column count for the app drawer separately
• Ability to set vertical padding for desktop
• Preview in icon pack picker
• Ability to create gradient monochrome icon backgrounds
• Bug fixes for color theme editor

ver 28.0.0-beta01

• Android 15 support
• Uses the more efficient RenderEffect for blur on Android13+
• Link to the new user documentation

ver 27.1.0

• Ability to add multiple icons at once to existing folders
• Fixed NewsFeed colors when using the flat feed style
• JSONFeed support
• Swedish translation

ver 27.0.0

• New app & icon theme editors, themes can be shared
• Reworked in-app widget settings
• Added bookmark buttons to custom tabs
• Added a new calendar widget
• Fixed a bug that prevented some widgets to be created
• Bug fixes & improvements

ver 27.0.0-beta02

• Added a new calendar widget
• Fixed a bug that prevented some widgets from being created

ver 27.0.0-beta01

• New app & icon theme editors, themes can be shared
• Reworked in-app widget settings
• Added bookmark button to custom tabs
• Bug fixes & improvements

ver 26.1.0

• Recently installed & frequently used apps now appear in the app list search results, when the input is empty
• Added option to choose where the wallpaper wanted to be applied
• Added air quality to weather widgets
• AVIF image support
• Bug fixes

ver 26.0.0

• New categories app list mode
• More streamlined UI
• Improved Reddit RSS/json feed support, ability to add sub or user feeds with sharing links
• Notes are auto saved
• One handed mode can be disabled
• Now correctly handles night mode dependent app icons
• Bug fixes

ver 26.0.0-beta03

• Now correctly handles night mode dependent app icons
• Bug fixes

ver 26.0.0-beta02

• Hibajavítások

ver 26.0.0-beta01

• New categories app list mode
• Streamlined UI
• Improved Reddit RSS/json feed support, ability to add sub or user feeds with sharing links
• Notes are auto saved
• One handed mode can be disabled

ver 25.0.2

• Fixed: App colors not applied correctly in some conditions on app start
• Fixed: Weather details on tablets
• Fixed: Launching applications after their update failed
• Updated translations

ver 25.0.1

• Preferences are now hidden if the main switch if off under Dock/Calendar/Weather
• Smaller bug fixes & improvements

ver 25.0.0

• Initial Android 14 support
• Fixed: Auto placing multiple app icons when adding newly installed apps to desktops
• Added option to choose wallpaper based dynamic app colors on newer Android versions
• Some wallpaper related features now requires to use the in-app wallpaper picker
• Simplified Chinese translation
• Monochrome Google Calendar icon support
• The weather forecast and the calendar events now have card look similar to the news
• Smaller bug fixes and improvements

ver 24.1.0

• Ability to set night mode specific colors for in-app widgets
• New NewsFeed appearance preferences screen with preview
• Fast scrolling in hidden app list
• Smaller bug fixes & improvements

ver 24.0.0

• Podcast RSS feed support
• Fixed: crash when selecting large folders for wallpaper profiles
• Fixed: incorrect app icon text colors in app list when using the white theme
• Fixed: a crash when using monochrome icon packs on some Huawei phones with older Android versions
• Fixed: the data usage widget was blank when the required permission was missing
• Supports Android 8 or newer
• Twitter support removed, due to Twitter API v1 shutdown
• Added ability to use the app color as the reader background
• Ability to add some Podcast RSS feeds by using Apple Podcast and SoundCloud sharing urls
• Bug fix for widget/app icon colors, when the night mode is active
• Fixed: Enabling Bluetooth devices in battery widget
• Updated French translations

ver 23.0.1

• Fixed: NewsFeed and app drawer background colors were not updated in some conditions
• Fixed: Crash when displaying toasts on Android 6 and 7

ver 23.0.0

• New app/reader font selector
• Monochrome icon pack support below Android 13
• Easier widget drag & drop
• Rewritten settings backup/restore
• New: Default wrapped icon inset preferences
• Smaller bug fixes & improvements

ver 22.0.4

• Fixed opening tweets from the NewsFeed
• Monochrome icon related bug fixes and improvements

ver 22.0.3

• Fixes a bug which caused the app to hang when other apps are getting updated
• Fixes monochrome calendar icon colors
• Brotli compression support

ver 22.0.2

• Smaller bug fix

ver 22.0.1

• Smaller bug fixes

ver 22.0.0

• Work profile support
• Wallpaper profiles
• Dutch translation
• Folders now can have custom icons
• GUI performance improvements
• Fixed: Wallpaper dependent widget colors were sometimes not updated
• Fixed: Widget resizing were allowed while the layout was locked
• Bug fixes and improvements

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ver 21.0.0

• Monochrome icon support on Android 13
• Wallpaper dependent monochrome icons & folder icons
• The dock now supports multiple rows and widgets
• Ability to share/delete multiple wallpapers at once
• Monochrome favicon support (Settings/NewsFeed/Prefer monochrome icons)
• Monochrome clock icon
• Optimized wallpaper picker, now more fluid on lower-end devices
• The app drawer & widget list now remains open on tablets when rotating the device
• Dock horizontal margin preference
• Fixed: Sometimes the app not returned to the main screen after applied a new wallpaper on Android 12+
• Fixed: The weather setup flow
• A bunch of minor bug fixes and improvements

ver 20.0.4

• Fixed notification dismissal from icon context menus
• Smaller bug fixes and improvements

ver 20.0.3

• Updated Greek translations
• Added fallback to web based Twitter login, if the app based fails.
• Smaller bug fixes and improvements

ver 20.0.2

• Smaller bug fixes and improvements

ver 20.0.1

• Fixed error reporting, which was broken in the previous version
• Fixed clear button in icon editor – not always worked as expected
• Smaller bug fixes and improvements

ver 20.0.0

• Wallpaper dependent widget colors on Android 12+
• Wallpaper dependent in-app-widget colors on Android 6+
• App icons now show when the application is installing/updating
• Fast paging between desktops with the page indicator
• Icon previews in icon settings
• Condensed icon labels preference
• Improved icon pack support
  • Icon packs can now request to be the default, more about this: here
  • Fixed: Earlier launcher versions didn’t show all icons in the icon picker (ex. icons with alternative colors)
  • New icon recommendations
  • Fixed icon preview issues in the icon picker on Android 7.1 or older
• Better icon scaling
• Fixes an issue that caused a crash when setting up your Twitter account
• Fixes an issue that caused a crash with some wallpapers
• Smaller bug fixes and improvements

ver 19.1.0

• Added option to change the location of the notification dot on the icons
• Fixed an issue, when app folders are not saved correctly
• Smaller bug fixes and improvements

ver 19.0.1

• Bug fixes

ver 19.0.0

• New optional auto color theme selection based on the wallpaper
• Removed folder icon limit
• Updated Greek translation
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

ver 18.0.635

• New home screen layout lock preference
• Newly installed app icons now can be automatically added to the home screen (Android 8+)
• New dock background/background transparency preferences
• New app drawer display mode: page
• The app drawer now has a new search menu bar layout option
• Now you can list your most frequently used apps in the top of the app drawer
• New folder icon background color/background transparency preferences
• Optional “jump to top” button in the NewsFeed
• Bug fixes and improvements

ver 17.1.626

• Ability to hide the dock
• Bug fixes and improvements

ver 17.0.623

• New swipe up and hold gesture to search in the app list
• Italian translation
• The app can automatically discover the RSS feed urls from domain names, so it’s easier to add a new RSS feed to the NewsFeed
• Redesigned widget picker
• Improved widget compatibility
• Added some new icon drop animation
• Added bug tracker link
• Bug fixes and improvements

ver 16.0.617

• New gold color option
• Ability to hide the status bar
• Ability to hide the page indicator
• Bug fixes and improvements

ver 15.0.608

• Android 12 support
• Air quality information in weather details

ver 14.0.602

• New battery, network data usage widgets
• Pull down to close gesture in the wallpaper picker
• Relative url support in the offline reader
• New grid (3×3) folder icon style
• Weather alerts on the weather details screen
• Initial right-to-left layout support
• Link support in notes
• Many minor bug fixes and improvements

ver 13.0.593

• Bugfixes and improvements

ver 12.2.584

• Smaller bugfixes

ver 12.1.582

• New battery widgets
• The screen time widget now tapable
• Bug fixes & improvements

ver 12.0.577

• Ability to search in the app list
• New manual app list sort option with folder support
• French, Turkish, Kurdish translation

ver 11.1.569

• Bug fix: NewsFeed jumped to top after an automatic update
• Bug fixes and improvements

ver 11.0.564

• Ability to search in the NewsFeed by pulling down the feed with two finger
• Smaller redesign in settings
• Bug fixes and improvements

ver 10.3.559

• Russian translation
• Bug fixes & improvements

ver 10.2.552

• Bug fixes

ver 10.1.549

• Supports double tap gesture to turn off the screen on Android 9+
• Supports shortcut pinning from other apps on Android 8+
• Bug fixes

ver 10.0.542

• New widgets
• New icon shape
• Bug fixes

ver 9.1.538

• New icon scaling option
• New icon font scaling option
• Bug fixes

ver 9.0.530

• Supports Android 11
• Greek translation
• New blur theme option
• New opml importer
• New icon shapes
• Ability to rename RSS feeds
• Bug fixes & improvements

ver 8.0.518

• Uses scoped storage on Android 10+
• Supports apps on SD cards
• Calendar: Recurring events now appear in the Newsfeed
• Weather: New detailed view with daily & hourly forecasts
• New notes module
• Improved drag&drop
• New theme color option
• Fixed white theme

ver 7.2.504

• Added ability to hide the scroll bar in the app list
• Optimized app list scroll performance
• Fixed split view related bugs
• Smaller bugfixes & improvements

ver 7.1.492

• Bugfixes & improvements

ver 7.0.486

• Calendar support
• Rounded drawer
• Fixed synchronization with youtube accounts with more than 50 channel subscriptions
• Added ability to choose (dynamic) icons from icon packs for the clock and the calendar apps

ver 6.4.479

• Bugfixes & improvements

ver 6.3.468

• Bugfixes & improvements

ver 6.2.463

• Bugfixes & improvements
• More detailed privacy policy

ver 6.1.455

• Bugfixes & improvements
• Ability to hide icon labels on desktops

ver 6.0.445

• New: Supports per app/shortcut icon customization (title/icon)
• New: Supports Adaptive icon packs
• Bugfix: In some conditions the feed jumped up after a refresh
• Bugfixes & improvements

ver 5.5.437

• New hidden app list in app drawer (optionally can be protected), can be open by swiping right
• The app now correctly follows system icon shape changes
• Bugfixes

ver 5.4.430

• Android 10 support
• Supports Android 10 gesture navigation (if can be enabled on the device)
• Rewritten desktop grid, now you can choose the grid size in the settings
• Supports Dual Messenger (Samsung) and Parallel Apps (Oneplus)
• Bugfix: Sometimes the choosen city not saved for the weather forecast
• Bugfixes & improvements

ver 5.3.416

• Supports icon shape changing on Android 10
• Supports adaptive icons on pre-Oreo devices
• Added option to choose the default desktop
• Fixed: Blurry icons in “adjust wrap” settings
• Fixed: The newsfeed became laggy after a lot of dismissed news
• Fixed: Sometimes not all feed appeared in the drawer list
• Fixed: App shortcuts sometimes not updated correctly after an app update
• Smaller bugfixes & improvements

ver 5.2.410

• Supports auto backup
• Rewritten app list & fastscroll
• Improved syncing with Youtube
• More consistent status&navigation bar colors
• New color
• New: Adjust icon wrap menu option
• Bugfix: In some conditions the dock covered by the hidden app list
• Bugfix: The weather did not show up with the staggered layout
• Smaller bugfixes & improvements

ver 5.1.394

• New: Ability to merge folders
• New animations, transparent status/navigationbar in settings
• New: Linear/Staggered layout setting
• New: Small/Large card corner radius setting
• New: Initial RSS1 support
• Memory optimizations
• Optimized startup performance
• Fixed drag&drop issues
• Smaller bugfixes & improvements

ver 5.0.373

• Fixed: Folder renaming

ver 5.0.372

• Entirely rewritten in kotlin
• New: Prefer small column setting for newsfeed
• Wallpapers: Next images now preloads in previewer
• Wallpapers: Image lists now refreshes when a file system change occur, improved folder previews
• Fixed: parallax wallpaper with only one desktop
• Fixed: app context menu related crashes
• Reduced memory footprint by downscaling large app icons
• Updated licences
• Minor bugfixes and improvements

ver 4.5.361

• Improvement: Freer icon grid
• New: Animation when you drag an icon onto an another one

ver 4.4.358

• New: You can save news for read later, so it won’t be deleted from the app
• New: Now you can remove news from your newsfeed with long press & swipe to right
• Bugfix: Fixed the non responsive preferences in settings on Lollipop

ver 4.3.350

• New: The RSS sync now supports compressed responses
• New: Vertical seekbar to set the transparency
• Rewritten backup destination chooser & restore file browsing
• Smaller improvements

ver 4.2.343

• Smaller bugfixes & improvements

ver 4.1.335

• Bugfixes
• New black color option
• Transparent navigationbar

ver 4.0.326

• Bugfixes

ver 4.0.323

• Bugfixes

ver 4.0.316

• New: Can scroll between wallpaper pics
• New: Can set an offset to wallpapers with two finger drag
• New: Delete/share wallpaper image in viewer
• New: Pull down gesture in reader
• Restructured & redesigned settings
• Optimized icons for better berformance
• New sync scheduler implementation
• Rewriten database access
• Smaller improvements
• Fixed backup on older systems

ver 3.2.291

• Context menu for widgets
• Sharper vector icons in settings
• Smaller bugfixes

ver 3.2.285

• Redesigned widget list
• More frequent weather update
• New: Simple clock widget

ver 3.2.280

• Fixed icon y offsets
• New: Small statistic in about
• New: OnePlus Weather icon displays the current weather
• Smaller bugfixes & improvements

ver 3.2.274

• Smaller bugfix for weather api key setup

ver 3.2.273

• New: Weather provider (OpenWeatherMap)
• New colors
• Bugfix: Perspecive wallpaper setting not saved correctly
• Bugfix: App icon not appear/disappear when enabling/disabling an app
• Bugfix: Optimized newsfeed syncronization memory usage to prevent OutOfMemory crashes

ver 3.1.262

• Improved image detection (with enabled Readibility)

ver 3.1.257

• New: Landscape orientation on tablets
• New: Added ability to change column count
• New: Now wraps non adaptive shortcut icons too
• More responsive perspective wallpaper
• Bugfix for non created indexes for faster database
• Bugfix: Widget configuration option incorrecly appeared for non-configurable widgets
• Bugfix: Widget creation failed at first time
• Bugfix: Not all news listed on pre-oreo devices
• Smaller visual bugfixes

ver 3.0.247

• New: Option to change icon shape on Oreo or up – Make a backup before change
• New: Option to wrap non adaptive icons to adaptive – Non icon pack only
• New: Animated Clock and Google Calendar icons
• New: Perspective wallpaper based on acceleration sensors
• New: Opt-in crash reports
• Faster wallpaper apply
• Bugfix: Fixed app uninstalling from the context menu on Pie
• Bugfix: Fixed twitter sync ANRs with large number of tweets
• Smaller visual bugfixes
• Updated privacy policy

ver 2.0.226

• Rewritten newsfeed data loading
• Bugfixes
• Removed Facebook setup option – The required API permission provided for companies only

ver 2.0.221

• Bugfix for app hide function

ver 2.0.216

• Bugfix for feed images

ver 2.0.212

• Fixed and improved app drawer fling animation
• Smaller bugfixes

ver 2.0.206

• Bugfix: Fixed a bug in youtube setup

ver 2.0.205

• Bugfix: Fix a leak what causing out of memory errors
• Bugfix: Fix crash when disabling notifications
• Smaller bugfixes

ver 2.0.201

• New: Added ripple effect on feed list
• New: NewsFeed transparency can be changed by a seekbar
• Bugfix: Fixed context menu width in app list
• Bugfix: Better handling syncronization indicator in newsfeed
• Bugfix: Better handling touch animations on icons & news cards
• Bugfix: Fixed freeze on login/logout to Twitter/Youtube caused by large amount of data
• Bugfix: Fixed statusbar colors in newsreeder
• Bugfix: Optimized async image loading in newsfeed

ver 2.0.197

• New: Dock hides on newsfeed’s page
• Bugfix: Fixed newsreeder opening blink issue on Android Pie
• Bugfix: Fixed newsreeder background on Android Lollipop
• Bugfix: Widget resizing on Android Pie
• Bugfix: Startup crash when READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE is not granted
• Bugfix: Quick scrolling in all apps list

ver 2.0.194

• New: status bar color based on wallpaper
• Bugfix: Icon pack switch
• Smaller optimizations & bugfixes

ver 2.0.193

• New: App list background transparency
• New: New font New: Bagde colors based on app icons
• New: Android App Bundle format
• New: App title caching for faster startup
• Fixed: Few icon/widget positioning problem
• Fixed: Context menu size
• Fixed: App crash caused by invalid adaptive icons
• Fixed: Few html table caused crash in the news reader

ver 1.5.182

• New: You can send feed urls to the developer what you cannot add to the newsfeed
• New: You can change the transparency of the feed background
• Bugfix: Fixed compatibility with some widgets (ex. Overdrop)

ver 1.5.181

• Bugfix: fixed button colors in news reader
• Bugfix: fixed browser button offset with onscreen buttons in news reader

ver 1.5.177

• New: Draggable app list
• Bugfixes

ver 1.4.166

• Context menu redesign
• Webview replaced in news reader with Textview for quicker load
• Basic wallpaper picker
• Bugfixes

ver 1.3.157

• Twitter setup bugfix

ver 1.3.154

• Animations
• Database optimization

ver 1.2.148

• Settings redesign
• Global Roboto font
• Iconpack bugfix

ver 1.2.141

• Bugfixes for improved stability