Releases: theothernt/AerialViews
Releases · theothernt/AerialViews
v1.7.7
This is a bug fix release...
Fixes and improvements
- Fixed a crash introduced in v1.7.6 while parsing community video data, appears to affect RU/UK languages
- More fixes to Samba/WebDAV image loading
This version is likely to appear on the Google Play and Amazon Appstore in the next couple of days.
v1.7.6
This is a smaller release with a lot of fixes
New Features
- Import/Export settings feature. Requires File Manager app to import settings.
- Change loading/video/photo background colour.
- Translations updated thanks to @gentslava, @dikodahan, TexetBoo, and José Manuel Lugones
Fixes and improvements
- Fixes to possible crash with photos + Samba share.
- Fixes to video playback when using CalDAV server
- Fix to segmented playback not working properly
- Fixes to Samba/WebDAV image loading
- Fixes to "Start screensaver on launch" setting
- Auto refresh rate changes
This version is likely to appear on the Google Play and Amazon Appstore in the next week or so.
Contributors
gentslava and dikodahan
Assets 3
v1.7.5
This is a bigger release with many new features and a few fixes...
New Features
- New frame rate matching mode
- Added ability to skip next/previous music track
- Launch into screensaver when started from home screen
- Added option to loop video until manually skipped
- Added seek forward/backward within a video
- Translations updated thanks to @gentslava, @dikodahan, @peat80, @marcopar, TexetBoo, and José Manuel Lugones
Fixes and improvements
- Improved the look of gradients
- Media description folder depth option
- Added more info to Capabilities screen
- Bug fixes and performance improvements to startup
- Fixed bugs when changing speed in a video
- Now Playing overlay takes up no visible space when empty
This version is likely to appear on the Google Play and Amazon Appstore in the next week or so.
Contributors
marcopar, gentslava, and 2 other contributors
Assets 3
v1.7.4
This is a bigger release with many new features and a few fixes...
New Features
- Immich media server support added by @bugfest and @RyanShahidi
- Added ability to set screen brightness/dimness while active
- Added ability to override system 'animator duration scale'
- Added Progress Bar option in Settings > Appearance
- Menu position is saved when navigating from screen to screen (finally!)
- Added menu navigation animations
- Added ability to start a video from a random point
- Added feature to exit on screen tap for phones, tablets
- Translations updated thanks to @gentslava, @dikodahan, @peat80, @marcopar, TexetBoo, and José Manuel Lugones
Fixes and improvements
- Moved Videos/Photos scaling options to Settings > Appearance
- Using older version of SMBJ to improve Guest/Anonymous account compatibility
- Major changes to how Now Playing updates, fixes issues with some radio apps and casting
- Fixes to how crop and scale are implemented by the video player
- Crop/scale should persist when rotating the screen on phones, tablets
- Fixed a bug where the 'Test screensaver' feature gets stuck if app is suspended
- Fixed a bug where local images were incorrectly identified as videos, which prevents playback
This version is likely to appear on the Google Play and Amazon Appstore in next the couple of weeks.
Contributors
marcopar, gentslava, and 4 other contributors
Assets 3
v1.7.3
New Features
- Added ability to change the audio volume of videos
- Added crop/scale options for videos
- Improvements to enabling Now Playing and how it handles blank artist/songs by @gentslava
- Added ability to black out screen - hides video and overlays, wake with a button press
- Translations updated thanks to @gentslava, @dikodahan, @peat80, @marcopar, TexetBoo, and José Manuel Lugones
Fixes and improvements
- Added some additional durations to Slideshow time and Max. video length
- Fixed a bug in Samba/WebDAV connection test not being cancelled properly
- Fixed a bug in D-pad/Button handling
- Fixed a bug in how Now Playing updates
- Fixed a bug in duplicate matching of videos/photos
This version is likely to appear on the Google Play and Amazon Appstore in the next week or so.
Contributors
marcopar, gentslava, and 2 other contributors
Assets 3
v1.7.2
This is a bigger release with many new features and a few fixes...
New Features
- Added a (music) Now Playing overlay - thanks to @spocky for his help with this feature
- Added support for WebDAV servers
- Short videos can be looped within a time limit
- Animated GIF support
- A random part of a long video can be played if a time limit is set
- Ability to adjust times or disable fade in/out animations
- Overlays can auto-hide after timeout, revealed with button press
- D-pad buttons/directions can be fully customised for press or long press
- New Japanese translation for Community videos by Asako
- New Hebrew translation by @dikodahan
- Translations updated thanks to @peat80, @marcopar, TexetBoo, and José Manuel Lugones
Fixes and improvements
- Location/description matching for Apple/Community videos ignores filename extensions
- Fixed a crash in a permission helper
- Fixed a bug in photo/video selection in some media providers
- Moved Overlays screen out of Appearance and into the main Settings screen
As always - thank you to the community for being patient with feature requests, helping with testing, and finding bugs!
This version is likely to appear on the Google Play and Amazon Appstore in the next week or two.
Contributors
spocky, marcopar, and 2 other contributors
Assets 3
v1.7.1
New Features
- You can now add a gradient to the top and/or bottom of the screen to make text easier to see
- Added more options when using a photo or video filename as the description, removed 'formatted' option
- Initial "Loading..." message can be turned off
- New Italian translation by @marcopar
- Translations updated thanks to @peat80, TexetBoo, and José Manuel Lugones
Fixes and improvements
- Playback speed notification bug fix by @dog77k
- Bug fix in Samba provider by @Andres78
- Updated SMBJ which may improve SMB compatibility
- Fixed issue with SMB username/password if spaces were used
- Added option to allow software decoders and verbose playback logging
- Improved file access permissions for Android 13/14+
- Fixed a bug with 12/24hr time format not working properly
This version is likely to appear on the Google Play and Amazon Appstore in the next week or two.
Contributors
marcopar, Andres78, and 2 other contributors
Assets 3
v1.7
This is a bigger release with new features and changes...
New Features
- Photo support has finally been added to Aerial Views. It is available for local & USB storage, and Samba shares. Expect more photo related features in future releases.
Fixes and improvements
- Fixed an issue with 'mute' not working if connected to an AV receiver
- Reverted Samba buffer size change as it caused video playback on some devices to stop working
- Translations updated thanks to @peat80, TexetBoo, @juneix, and José Manuel Lugones
- French translation updated using DeepL and Google translate. If you spot any mistakes, please get in contact.
- Added ability to randomise language of screensaver overlays every run. Useful for testing translations.
- Tweaks to fade in/out timings
This version is likely to appear on the Google Play and Amazon Appstore in the next week or so.
Contributors
peat80 and juneix
Assets 3
v1.6.3
New Features
- Added ability to change font weight of each overlay individually
- Added option to disable passthrough of media buttons
- Added Spanish translation by José Manuel Lugones
- Added Simplified Chinese translation by @juneix
Fixes
- Fixed an issue with the Date overlay not updating when the day/date changes
- Small fix to UK translation by @dtsypkin
There is no GitHub release for v1.6.2 as it only contained a critical fix for Google Play and Amazon Appstore versions.
This version is likely to appear on the Google Play and Amazon Appstore in the next week or so.
Contributors
dtsypkin and juneix
Assets 3
v1.6.1
This is a bug fix release...
Fixes
- Fixed a crash bug which occurs when the app is updated with Location set to 'off'
- Fixed a bug which caused the Upper and Lower slots to be in the wrong order
- Fixed a video size/aspect issue on the phone after a screen rotation
- Fixed an issue with translations not being used on some preference screens
- Tweaks to UK/RU/DE translations by TexetBoo and @peat80
This version will appear on the Google Play and Amazon Appstore in a week or so.
Contributors
peat80