v0.0.7 — ASCII art that draws, a font picker, and a macOS build

Early pre-release for testing on Android.

Coming from v0.0.3 or earlier, or the very first v0.0.4 upload? Those were debug-signed
and Android will refuse to install over them — uninstall first. From signed v0.0.4 or
later this updates normally.

Try it in a browser first — same code,
built for web.

Which file

File	Size	For
textlog-0.0.7-arm64-v8a.apk	17 MB	Virtually every Android phone from the last decade — take this one
textlog-0.0.7-armeabi-v7a.apk	15 MB	Older 32-bit Android devices
textlog-0.0.7.apk	48 MB	Universal Android; runs on anything
textlog-0.0.7-macos.dmg	19 MB	macOS (Apple silicon)

macOS, first launch

The app is ad-hoc signed, not notarised — notarising needs a paid Apple developer account.
macOS will refuse it the first time. Allow it once under System Settings → Privacy &
Security → Open Anyway, or run
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/textlog.app.

ASCII art finally draws properly

The app shipped with Roboto Mono, which matches what the website resolves to on Android. It
turns out to contain no box-drawing or block characters whatsoever — not one of
┌ ─ ┐ ╔ ═ ╭ ┼ █. Every drawing was falling back to a different face mid-line, which is why
art on a site whose community posts a lot of it came apart.

The second half was line spacing. textlog tags art with #ascii or #ascii_art and drops
those posts to tighter lines; the app was rendering them at normal prose spacing, so
everything drawn on a character grid was pulled apart vertically. Both fixed.

Art is also no longer run through the markdown renderer, which was eating the _ and * out
of the middle of drawings when you had markdown switched on.

Pick your font

Three, under appearance:

• JetBrains Mono — the new default. Sober, ligatures off, full box-drawing coverage.
• Fira Code — ligatures on, which is the reason to choose it.
• System — whatever your phone calls monospace. Costs no download.

Both bundled faces are subset to just what textlog needs — Latin, punctuation, arrows, maths,
box drawing and blocks — so the download did not grow: arm64 is still 17 MB. Emoji are left to
the system, which already has a colour font for them.

Hotfix

The appearance sheet was clipped at the bottom, so the font and markdown settings could not
be reached on a phone. It scrolls now.

Unofficial client. textlog is by stagas.