Release 2.2

• Make it more clear what permissions DigiCal asks for and why.
• Update 'welcome' screens to reduce number of pages.
• Make sure the 'Help' button is fully clickable.
• Be smarter about picking an initial default calendar.
• Fix several app-not-responding issues.
• Changing the date of a recurring event no longer leaves the event on its original date.
• Updated time zone database to 2121a
• Added support for display of HTML in event description

Release 2.1

Update for Android 10 compatibility

• DigiCal is updated to target Android 10, with improved support for switching languag in app.
• Updated time zone database to 2020d
• Lots of internal code clean up

Release 2.0

New: Improved notifications. Alerts are now posted as separate notifications, and grouped if you device supports it. Alerts are also tinted by calendar color.

2.0.4

• Added option to disable permission warning banner. Enabling this may lead to undefined behavior and missing data.
• Fixed click handler on guests in event details page.
• Added workaround for Android bugs: application using wrong context, db open errors (Moto), "no alerts found".

2.0.2/2.0.3

• Fixed location editing, it saves the text entered if you did not pick a location via the map icon.
• Fixed start of week / days of first week setting.
• Fixed notifications enable toggle, disabling it works again.
• Fixed memory usage on Android 4.4
• Fixed event image glitch on event info screen.
• 2.0.3: Improved compatibility with older devices.

2.0.1

• 2.0.1: workarounds for Lenovo 4.4 / no calendar provider crashes.
• 2.0.1: faster app startup.

2.0.0 beta

• Improved weather location setup.
• Improved widget click handling compatibility with Android O/P/Q.
• Event location editing changed due to removal of Google Places API v1, API does not work anymore. Click the map icon to search for a location.
• Updated timezone database to 2019b.
• Set navigation bar to dark gray on dark theme.
• Beta 2: fixed calendar store sync and preview.
• Beta 3: speed up app start and some more compatibility fixes for Xiaomi.
• And many more bug fixes and improvements.

Release 1.8.3

• New place picker UI while editing events.
• Improved automatic location detection for displaying local weather.
• Added support for multi-window, resizing and 2:1+ aspect ratio.
• Sort events by title if time is the same.
• Fixed translation issues on Oreo+ for Chinese when mixing app and system text.
• Fixed text clipping issue in day grid and text month widget.
• Added more workarounds for ROM bugs and crashes.

Release 1.8.2

• Oreo compatibility: removed text shadow in event popup window
• Oreo compatibility: updated language switching code due to API change
• Fixed date formatting in day list widget
• Reply all on event: skip invalid email addresses
• Widget: catch errors thrown by Android WallpaperManager to avoid crashing
• 1.8.2a: Updated timezone database to 2017c
• 1.8.2a: Fixed rare crash in agenda view when switching between apps
• 1.8.2a: Speed up app start up to prevent ANRs
• 1.8.2b: Workaround Google Play licensing issue

Release 1.8.1

• Fixed numeric time picker option not working.
• Updated weather location search for Google Places API changes - this fixes search not working for certain cities.
• Updated timezone database to 2016h,
• Added workaround for crash on no browser available / installed.
• Workaround Letv / LeEco calendar provider crash on showing reminder.
• Fixed crash when an calendar account has no name.
• 1.8.1c: Workaround WebView not available causing crash after an update.
• 1.8.1c: Fixed display of events in "Browse Calendars", event time and location were not shown.

Release 1.8.0

NEW: AMOLED Black theme for DigiCal+ users!

NEW: Added Belarusian, Malay and Thai languages!

• Fix issues with saving recurring events on languages that do not use arabic numerals (0-9).
• Prevent rare crash when Google WebView application is being updated in the background.
• Prevent issues with notification / widget clicks just after application is updated.
• Do not crash on contact lookup when contacts database returns an invalid entry.
• Better error handling when event cannot be saved by the calendar database.
• Improve responsiveness of notification, widget & views update after events change.
• Fix display of recurrence rules that specify "on the Nth day of the month".
• Refresh search view when we receive any changes in calendar events.
• Fix misalignment of weekday names in month view when week numbers are hidden.
• Fix extremely long title taking up the entire event details screen.
• Update timezone database (to 2016f version).
• Show reminders set 6 hours before the event as "6 hours before".
• Always respect date/time picker settings, everywhere in the app.
• Restart app on timezone change to update display for new timezone.

Release 1.7.4

Bug fix release with improvements to the sync service, now uses Gcm / JobScheduler to save power.

• Removed account based sync adapter and rewritten to use the new Gcm / JobScheduler API, this also removes a bunch of permissions around account and sync.
• Schedule view: fixed crash around inconsistent placeholder state during animation.
• Event details: better support for long event titles and different font sizes, measure the text to detect if it overflows.
• Widget: don't crash on DeadObjectException, not much we can do about it, and handle crashes caused by TransactionTooLargeException silently.
• Optimized images handling for less RAM usage, moved images without intrinsic size to drawable-nodpi.
• Handle crashes caused by finalizer watchdog; this is a Dalvik/Art VM issue, just exit when it happens, usually after a long time of inactivity or heavy system load/swapping.
• Events: better access level handling, show event titles on public events on a private (free/busy only) calendar.
• Edit event: save color correctly on rotate
• [N preview] Workaround LinearLayout not spreading remaining pixels out correctly.
• Copy/paste: keep event time, do not round.
• Week view: fixed maxMinutesForTimedEvents, was 1 minute too short.
• Reminders: do not show notification for declined events when "hide declined events" is enabled.
• Reminders: dismiss reminder popup when notification is dismissed.
• Reminders: snooze: dismiss original reminder when rescheduling one for later, might fix repeated alerts issue.
• Navigation drawer: make weather item on top obviously clickable.
• 1.7.4 r2: fixed a bug @ permission handling.
• 1.7.4b: several small fixes and improvements.
• 1.7.4b: fixed Android-N date / time format.
• 1.7.4c: Fix rare crash related to invalid contacts.
• 1.7.4c: Fix snooze from notification.
• 1.7.4c: Do not allow editing reminders on read-only calendars.
• 1.7.4d: Added integrity checks to schedule / month calendar view, reset list if display order is wrong.
• 1.7.4f: Fixed Month / Schedule view day display order bug caused by incorrectly handling weather data update.
• 1.7.4g: Updated translations, added workaround for rom bug on certain MediaTek devices on the month view.

Looking for volunteers to translate DigiCal (updated)

As a thank you for your efforts, you will receive a license code to activate DigiCal + as well as a free lifetime subscription to both the premium weather forecast as well as the premium calendar subscription. Send an email to support@digibites.nl to sign up!

At the moment, we are looking for translators for: Afrikaans, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Estonian, Filipino, Galician, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Slovak, Slovenian, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese.

Release 1.7.3

Week view has been cleaned up to increase performance, look cleaner and to add new features! New things include:

• 1.7.3e - Fixed arm64 native crash due to compiler type confusion in generating native code (dex2oat?) on Android 5.0/5.1.
• 1.7.3c - Added fix for Samsung Marshmallow rom bug - Checkbox state is inconsistent, for example in widget calendar selection.
• 1.7.3c - Added dialog for setting the location if automatic detection is unavailable (Samsung, HTC, bug introduced in their Marshmallow rom)
• 1.7.3c - Workaround N-preview 1 and 2 issue causing infinite loop / high CPU usage (details), fix is merged in AOSP master, but not available yet (tagged FutureRelease).
• 1.7.3c - Added some help for common crashes caused by Android rom bugs (app ops @ 4.3/4.4, database corruption), and how to resolve it (reboot phone or reinstall).
• 1.7.3a - workaround HTC rom bug / action bar issue in preferences.
• Better all-day events pane - now shows up to 5 events at once.
• Option to customize the start and end of day (DigiCal+)
• Option to show events longer than x hours as all day events.
• Use a faster render path during pinch to improve frame rate.
• Show event time if there's enough room.
• Changed multi-day event handling: show as timed event on first and last day, and all day in between.
• Updated default zoom to center on working day +/- 0.5 hours.

Other changes

• Lenovo 5.x ROMs: ActionBar caused a crash in preference subscreen due to invalid default background. Set one explicitly as workaround.
• Sony 6.0 ROMs: Workaround MapView crash due to Context.getResources() returning null for unknown reason, force enable hardware acceleration on those views + updated Play Services to latest version. gmaps-api issue #9071.

Release 1.7.2

Highlights

Month view: you can now choose to show only events from the selected day in the lower pane in the settings screen.

Widgets: "Clicking on the widget starts..." setting is now per widget - you can change this in the widget configuration screen.

Create / edit event: added warning if start time is in the past.

Other changes

• Schedule / month view: tap today on current day scrolls the view to the current time.
• Grid / Text Month / Month Calendar widget - optimized rendering, faster and better compatibility with launchers.
• Event details screen: added dark shim behind guest status indicators and faster loading time.
• Grid widget: setting today text size was incorrectly linked to day of month text size.
• Event details screen: edit via FAB now respects the "edit via intent" setting.
• Search: improved search function can now find more events via calendar, account name and guests, but where it searches exactly depends on the device's Android version.
• Settings: settings with a slider like text size now have non silly default width again.

Release 1.7.1

• Faster startup.
• Translation updates.
• Several crash & stability fixes.
• Add action (title) bar in preferences' sub-screens.
• Notification no longer shows date/time in the past for repeating events.
• Disable chatty "location search unavailable" error in event details screen.
• Possible fix for missing weeks in month view (feedback appreciated).
• Fix unusable month view on tablet in landscape mode with advertisements enabled.
• Darken event text on list view when "darken past events" is enabled.
• Fade & darken event blips on month view according to settings.
• Cut event in month view now properly fades out event item in list.
• Show correct calendar color on new/paste buttons in list & month view.
• Properly apply event style (tab color vs background color) to new/paste buttons.
• Copy & paste event in month view no longer gets created on the wrong day.
• When pasting an event copied from a read-only calendar, use the default calendar instead of a random one.
• Update "today" indicator position in month view when the date changes while in the app.
• Update time indicator position in list & month view when the time changes while in the app.

Release 1.7.0

• New agenda, month and search view!
• Several minor stability fixes.
• Improved time display for multi-day events.

Older changes

Older changes

Thanks again for using DigiCal

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