HUE25

Features

• Show notification on app startup with all tasks that are due on that day
• Show notification when a task that was created when the client was offline is uploaded to the server
  • Tapping on the note opens the task in the details view
• Notifications are grouped if possible
• Settings option for toggling the notifications

Internal Features

• Notification channels are used so that the user can (additionally to the settings option) turn off and change priorities for each type of notification

Improvements

• Various dependency updates

Bug Fixes

• Notes can now be created without a location set

HUE23

Features

• Location coordinates can be sent to the LocationIQ API for reverse geocoding
• Request GPS permission if geocoding button is tapped
• Location of a note is displayed in the note details view if such data is stored

Internal Features

• Additional data is now able to store more than just synchronization information in a backwards compatible way
• Added LocationIQ API key without obfuscation as it can always be obtained by intercepting the network requests

Improvements

• Add documentation of synchronization algorithm
• Dependency updates

HUE22

Features

• Synchronization using Timestamps:
  • During synchronization the timestamps are compared and the newer one is used
  • If the timestamp (from the server) is invalid it is assumed that the client is more up-to-date
  • If the entity doesn't exist on the server, it is created
• Login and Registration in App
• Multiple Todo Lists in the Navigation Drawer
  • New ones can be created using the overflow menu resulting in a Dialog
  • Todo List name is shown in the Activity Title
  • Last opened list is remembered
  • Drawer is disabled in Register and Login
• Animations using Material Motion
  • Login to Register
  • List change
  • Show details
  • Open Editor (from FAB)
• Drawer Header showing current username
• Logout Button in overflow menu
  • User data is removed on logout so that it doesn't mix with the next users data
• Swipe to Refresh on list view

Internal Features

• Android Jetpack Navigation Component is used
• API Calls via Retrofit 2
• Database or API operations are performed asynchronously using Kotlin Coroutines
• Modular Architecture
  • Event handlers are in their respective fragment/activity
• Extensive use of LiveData
• Usage of Room with SQLite as data storage as replacement for the old Serializers and Storages
• Continuous Integration using GitHub Actions
• ViewModels in Login/Register
• BindingAdapters so that Data Bindings can be used everywhere where it makes sense
• Error handling for Login
• Input validation in editor (using animated hiding of FAB)

Improvements

• Extract Activities into Fragments to achieve Single Activity Architecture
• Migration from JCenter to Maven Central
• data-lib is now a real Android Library instead of just a Kotlin Module
• Various dependency updates
• FAB moves out of the way if a Snackbar appears using CoordinatorLayout

Bug Fixes

• Task Checking in the Details View works now

HUE19

Dear Customers,

we are very proud to announce the release of version 19 of our app.

Changelog

• Add option to tick tasks
  • Add checkboxes
  • Update serializers
  • Change all UI occurrences of Note to Task
• Add app preferences with the following settings
  • Task storage location
  • Task serialization format
  • Task storage file name
• Implement external storage as a storage target
  • Add preference option
• Implement GSON serializer
  • Add GSON option to serializer preference
• Implement and extract our proprietary file format into it's own sub-project
  • Our binary based file format is the most storage-efficient file format possible for storing your tasks
  • Add gradle tasks for automatic creation of artifacts
    • Source code ZIP
    • Documentation ZIP
    • Compiled jar file
• Use Hilt/Dagger for dependency injection leading to better code modularity
  • Implement providers that provide the storage or serializer corresponding to the preference
• Minor improvements
  • Add FAB for creating new tasks to MainActivity
  • Change overdue icon
  • Change Date/Time picker color
  • Generally overhaul color scheme
  • Use Data Bindings exclusively
  • Switch from deprecated startActivityForResult to new type-safe API
  • Dependency updates
  • Add new feature ideas to list
• Bug fixes
  • Fix off-by-one error in date picker
  • Found new bugs