Stride v1.0.2 — Retro Mode
🕹️ Retro Mode
Stride now has a full 8-bit skin. Not a recolour — an actual pixel redesign:
- Pixel typeface throughout (Press Start 2P)
- Stair-stepped corners on every panel, chip and button — real pixel corners, not small radii
- Chunky outlines and hard offset shadows, the way pixel-art UIs fake depth
- Block progress ring with a continuous radar sweep
- Blinking terminal caret, CRT scanlines, blocky switches
- Retro map — the walk map is duotoned into the arcade palette with a pixel frame
Toggle it in Settings → Appearance → Retro mode. The original Material design is
completely untouched behind the switch, and nothing about how the app works changes.
🎨 Arcade palette
A new colour palette inspired by 8-bit tracker consoles: a bright sky-cyan field, deep
indigo panels, and coral / mint / amber accents. Light and dark variants. Free for
everyone — Retro mode pairs with it automatically.
✨ Also new
- Free home-screen widget — the steps + goal widget is no longer premium
- Background-reliability hint — if your phone is battery-restricting Stride while
background counting is on, the app offers a one-tap fix. This is the single most
common cause of "my steps stopped counting" - Gentle rating prompt — at most once a fortnight, only after a goal, never again
once you've rated - Crash reporting so problems get fixed faster
🐛 Fixed
- The goal coach no longer nags. Dismissing it now sticks for the rest of the day
instead of reappearing every time you returned to the dashboard - Clean midnight rollover — today's count resets correctly even if the app was never
opened around midnight - Onboarding permissions are requested in sequence, so prompts are no longer
silently skipped - Accessibility — the progress ring now reads as one clear label in TalkBack
Both share the same package and signing key, so a Gumroad install updates cleanly to the
Play build later.
📄 Font licence
Retro mode uses Press Start 2P by CodeMan38, under the
SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Full changelog: v1.0.1...v1.0.2