v2.0.0-alpha24.2

Release Notes

New Features

➕ Added the ability to sort the home screen by alphabetical and recently played.
➕ Added wallpaper and logo shortcut images.
➕ Added links to Wikipedia and YouTube in folder list view.

Improvements

✨ Folder design overhaul.
✨ RetroAchievements folders now get games in subfolders.
✨ Increased separation between app bg and foreground.
✨ Creating platforms manually also downloads the default icons.
✨ Improved image placeholders in the web image selector.
✨ Increased retro shortcut default image resolution.
✨ Added wallpaper to market.
✨ Shortcut spacing adjusts with screen size.

Fixes

🔧 Massive RetroAchievements loading speedup - you can now quickly load platform RetroAchievements list for thousands of games.
🔧 Redid retro game loading for large loading speed improvement.
🔧 More loading improvements.
🔧 Sort shortcuts alphabetically in folder add dialog.
🔧 Fixed opening retro game file location.
🔧 Fixed being unable to load with Wallpaper Engine.

Changes Since v24

➕ Added links to RetroAchievement user profile and messaging in friends list.
✨ Improved some letter padding scaling.
✨ Lessened background coloring.
✨ Improved RetroAchievements friends list status when online.
✨ RetroAchievements friends list now scales better.
✨ Made the app drawer keyboard semi-transparent.
✨ Improved the look of filtered letters when selected.
✨ Increased the immersive view top row size.
🔧 Prevent focus jumping around when selecting filtered letters.
🔧 Fixed posters showing highlight with shapes turned off.
🔧 Fixed shape button prompts not showing up.
🔧 Fixed shape button prompts being colored in the controller menu.
🔧 Fixed recently played games not sorting immediately.

v2.0.0-alpha24.1

Release Notes

New Features

➕ Added the ability to sort the home screen by alphabetical and recently played.
➕ Added wallpaper and logo shortcut images.
➕ Added links to Wikipedia and YouTube in folder list view.

Improvements

✨ Folder design overhaul.
✨ RetroAchievements folders now get games in subfolders.
✨ Increased separation between app bg and foreground.
✨ Creating platforms manually also downloads the default icons.
✨ Improved image placeholders in the web image selector.
✨ Increased retro shortcut default image resolution.
✨ Added wallpaper to market.
✨ Shortcut spacing adjusts with screen size.

Fixes

🔧 Massive RetroAchievements loading speedup - you can now quickly load platform RetroAchievements list for thousands of games.
🔧 Redid retro game loading for large loading speed improvement.
🔧 More loading improvements.
🔧 Sort shortcuts alphabetically in folder add dialog.
🔧 Fixed opening retro game file location.
🔧 Fixed being unable to load with Wallpaper Engine.

Changes Since v24

➕ Added links to RetroAchievement user profile and messaging in friends list.
✨ Improved some letter padding scaling.
✨ Lessened background coloring.
✨ Improved RetroAchievements friends list status when online.
✨ RetroAchievements friends list now scales better.
✨ Made the app drawer keyboard semi-transparent.
✨ Improved the look of filtered letters when selected.
✨ Increased the immersive view top row size.
🔧 Prevent focus jumping around when selecting filtered letters.
🔧 Fixed posters showing highlight with shapes turned off.

v2.0.0-alpha24

Release Notes

New Features

➕ Added the ability to sort the home screen by alphabetical and recently played.
➕ Added wallpaper and logo shortcut images.
➕ Added links to Wikipedia and YouTube in folder list view.

Improvements

✨ Folder design overhaul.
✨ RetroAchievements folders now get games in subfolders.
✨ Increased separation between app bg and foreground.
✨ Creating platforms manually also downloads the default icons.
✨ Improved image placeholders in the web image selector.
✨ Increased retro shortcut default image resolution.
✨ Added wallpaper to market.
✨ Shortcut spacing adjusts with screen size.

Fixes

🔧 Massive RetroAchievements loading speedup - you can now quickly load platform RetroAchievements list for thousands of games.
🔧 Redid retro game loading for large loading speed improvement.
🔧 More loading improvements.
🔧 Sort shortcuts alphabetically in folder add dialog.
🔧 Fixed opening retro game file location.
🔧 Fixed being unable to load with Wallpaper Engine.

Changes Since v24

v2.0.0-alpha23.1

Release Notes

New Features

➕ Added an onboarding screen for the initial app launch.
➕ The market now hides installed apps by default.
➕ Added game metadata to folder row views.
➕ Added a RetroAchievements tutorial.
➕ Enabled viewing RetroAchievements in folders.

Improvements

✨ Fixed close button looking a bit weird.
✨ Added a message when uninstalling the Console Market.
✨ Dismiss dialog text field when clicking "done" on the keyboard.
✨ Scale shadows based on screen size.
✨ Redid the web image dialog to be better.
✨ Completed and mastered RA games now stand out.
✨ Prevent opening Achievements for games that don't have them in the folder view.
✨ Sort RetroAchievements by completion status.
✨ Improved image loading performance.

Fixes

🔧 Prevent scraping from tanking performance.
🔧 Fixed games not loading from the SD card during cold boot.
🔧 Game RetroAchievements do not reload when switching tabs.
🔧 Fixed crash when opening web link without a browser installed.
🔧 Fixed a crash when loading the market.

Changes Since v23

✨ Added audio to tab changes.
✨ Show both softcore and hardcore achievement progress.

v2.0.0-alpha23

Release Notes

New Features

➕ Added an onboarding screen for the initial app launch.
➕ The market now hides installed apps by default.
➕ Added game metadata to folder row views.
➕ Added a RetroAchievements tutorial.
➕ Enabled viewing RetroAchievements in folders.

Improvements

✨ Fixed close button looking a bit weird.
✨ Added a message when uninstalling the Console Market.
✨ Dismiss dialog text field when clicking "done" on the keyboard.
✨ Scale shadows based on screen size.
✨ Redid the web image dialog to be better.
✨ Completed and mastered RA games now stand out.
✨ Prevent opening Achievements for games that don't have them in the folder view.[p-=0
✨ Sort RetroAchievements by completion status.
✨ Improved image loading performance.

Fixes

🔧 Prevent scraping from tanking performance.
🔧 Fixed games not loading from the SD card during cold boot.
🔧 Game RetroAchievements do not reload when switching tabs.
🔧 Fixed crash when opening web link without a browser installed.
🔧 Fixed a crash when loading the market.

Changes Since v23

v2.0.0-alpha22.3

Release Notes

New Features

➕ Added a basic market shortcut (add with the + on the main menu).
➕ Updated frontend tutorial to pull from GitHub.
➕ Combined the platform config in settings and the individual settings.
➕ Added the ability to manually set if an Android app is a game or not.
➕ Added Canvas ES-DE Logos.

Improvements

✨ Moved the theme pack selector to the frontend menu.
✨ Performance improvement when loading Platform RetroAchievements.
✨ Text size improvements.

Fixes

🔧 Fixed crash when starting Discord service.
🔧 Fixed crash when adding file paths.
🔧 Fixed crash when searching for a player online.
🔧 Fixed minor crash.
🔧 Fixed crash when moving shortcuts on the home screen.
🔧 Fixed a settings menu crash.
🔧 Fixed notifications overlapping.
🔧 Fixed the issue with restarting when the screen is turned off.
🔧 Fixed folder row not adjusting with folder icon size.
🔧 Fixed a job running when the app was closed.
🔧 Fixed startup boot loop.
🔧 Fixed dock icon flicker.

Changes Since v22

✨ Moved most Android toasts to use in-app notifications.
✨ Increased notification text size.
✨ Improved custom theme colors.
✨ Switched to WEB from NKJV.
✨ Improved gamepad input mapping UI.
✨ Improved controller view.
✨ Improved text sizing.
🔧 Fixed incorrect alignment in the settings menu nav bar.
🔧 Simplified loading screen code to fix freeze.
✨ Fixed settings navbar UI issue.
✨ Many UI sizing fixes.
🔧 Fixed unable to load main screen issue.
✨ Improved settings nav bar size selection.

v2.0.0-alpha22.2

Release Notes

New Features

➕ Added a basic market shortcut (add with the + on the main menu).
➕ Updated frontend tutorial to pull from GitHub.
➕ Combined the platform config in settings and the individual settings.
➕ Added the ability to manually set if an Android app is a game or not.
➕ Added Canvas ES-DE Logos.

Improvements

✨ Moved the theme pack selector to the frontend menu.
✨ Performance improvement when loading Platform RetroAchievements.
✨ Text size improvements.

Fixes

🔧 Fixed crash when starting Discord service.
🔧 Fixed crash when adding file paths.
🔧 Fixed crash when searching for a player online.
🔧 Fixed minor crash.
🔧 Fixed crash when moving shortcuts on the home screen.
🔧 Fixed a settings menu crash.
🔧 Fixed notifications overlapping.
🔧 Fixed the issue with restarting when the screen is turned off.
🔧 Fixed folder row not adjusting with folder icon size.
🔧 Fixed a job running when the app was closed.
🔧 Fixed startup boot loop.
🔧 Fixed dock icon flicker.

Changes Since v22

✨ Moved most Android toasts to use in-app notifications.
✨ Increased notification text size.
✨ Improved custom theme colors.
✨ Switched to WEB from NKJV.
✨ Improved gamepad input mapping UI.
✨ Improved controller view.
✨ Improved text sizing.
🔧 Fixed incorrect alignment in the settings menu nav bar.
🔧 Simplified loading screen code to fix freeze.

v2.0.0-alpha22.1

Release Notes

New Features

➕ Added a basic market shortcut (add with the + on the main menu).
➕ Updated frontend tutorial to pull from GitHub.
➕ Combined the platform config in settings and the individual settings.
➕ Added the ability to manually set if an Android app is a game or not.
➕ Added Canvas ES-DE Logos.

Improvements

✨ Moved the theme pack selector to the frontend menu.
✨ Performance improvement when loading Platform RetroAchievements.
✨ Text size improvements.

Fixes

🔧 Fixed crash when starting Discord service.
🔧 Fixed crash when adding file paths.
🔧 Fixed crash when searching for a player online.
🔧 Fixed minor crash.
🔧 Fixed crash when moving shortcuts on the home screen.
🔧 Fixed a settings menu crash.
🔧 Fixed notifications overlapping.
🔧 Fixed the issue with restarting when the screen is turned off.
🔧 Fixed folder row not adjusting with folder icon size.
🔧 Fixed a job running when the app was closed.
🔧 Fixed startup boot loop.
🔧 Fixed dock icon flicker.

Changes Since v22

✨ Moved most Android toasts to use in-app notifications.
✨ Increased notification text size.
✨ Improved custom theme colors.
✨ Switched to WEB from NKJV.

v2.0.0-alpha22

Release Notes

New Features

➕ Added a basic market shortcut (add with the + on the main menu).
➕ Updated frontend tutorial to pull from GitHub.
➕ Combined the platform config in settings and the individual settings.
➕ Added the ability to manually set if an Android app is a game or not.
➕ Added Canvas ES-DE Logos.

Improvements

✨ Moved the theme pack selector to the frontend menu.
✨ Performance improvement when loading Platform RetroAchievements.
✨ Text size improvements.

Fixes

🔧 Fixed crash when starting Discord service.
🔧 Fixed crash when adding file paths.
🔧 Fixed crash when searching for a player online.
🔧 Fixed minor crash.
🔧 Fixed crash when moving shortcuts on the home screen.
🔧 Fixed a settings menu crash.
🔧 Fixed notifications overlapping.
🔧 Fixed the issue with restarting when the screen is turned off.
🔧 Fixed folder row not adjusting with folder icon size.
🔧 Fixed a job running when the app was closed.
🔧 Fixed startup boot loop.
🔧 Fixed dock icon flicker.

Changes Since v22

v2.0.0-alpha21.1

Release Notes

New Features

➕ Added dynamic Samsung Dex feature and removed dedicated Dex build.
➕ Added device info section to the About Tab.
➕ Added retro game details viewer to the shortcut menu.
➕ Added RA popup option for Platforms.
➕ Added navigating to game achievements from the platform.

Improvements

✨ Added logos on the startup screen for special devices.
✨ Replaced the "set default launcher" section with a button.
✨ Added a nice error when failing to load RA in the friend's list.
✨ Added Material You support to the OLED theme.
✨ Made many settings options scalable to different UI.
✨ Made the settings UI more consistent.
✨ Improved look of RA game previews.
✨ Made setting sliders more controller-friendly.
✨ Improved the look of achievements.
✨ Made the settings menu adjust better for small screens.
✨ Prevent dock selectors from disappearing on small screens.
✨ Updated copyright notice.
✨ Moved the about menu to a new settings look.
✨ Added "friends online" notification on startup.
✨ Improved app drawer screen scaling on small devices.

Fixes

🔧 Fixed frontend box art names.
🔧 Prevented in-app notifications from sending many times.
🔧 Fixed switch still working in the free version.

Changes Since v21

✨ Shrunk letter grid size in folder screen.
🔧 Prevented the close button from extending the settings tabs.