v3.3.0: Hotfix For Uh... The App Opening

Hey uh, what's with the new name?

TL;DR, Apple kinda screwed me over with RNGTool. You can read all about what happened on my blog here.

What's new

Not a whole lot because things got weird with this release. The primary purpose of me releasing v3.3.0 here is to fix the issue with code signing on macOS, where all previous versions of RNGTool that were properly notarized will no longer launch. There's at least one new thing though!

iOS/macOS

• Added a new card dealer mode! This mode allows you to deal a set number of cards to multiple hands, and then add more cards from there. You can play blackjack with it if you really want!
• The app can actually be opened on macOS again. Hooray!

Build Numbers
macOS: 208
iOS: 90
watchOS: 90

Important Note

The recommended way to install the iOS version of RNGTool is now the App Store, rather than by sideloading the IPA. For macOS, you can choose between the App Store and the releases here as you please, since they're functionally identical.

As of 2/17, only RNGadget for iOS and watchOS is available on the App Store. You must use the macOS release provided here for the time being until this situation is sorted out.

v3.2.0: Suit Support

What's new

Card suits are finally here! Just don't ask how long I spent making the cards.

iOS/macOS/watchOS

• Card mode now simulates a standard 52-card deck for each hand drawn, meaning you'll get a realistic hand of cards, including suits! No more impossible 7 Ace hands with boring suit-less cards. These new cards also just look a bit better overall, likely because I spent a total of about 8 hours editing them and redesigning them all by hand multiple times. These were awful to make. But I love them!
  • With the addition of card suits, card mode now saves the suit of each cards drawn to your history in addition to its value. (For example, "A♠️")
• The per-mode options, such as the number of dice in dice mode or the maximum and minimum numbers in number mode, are now the same width as the generate and reset buttons below them, which makes everything feel a little more consistent.
• Lots of other behind-the-scenes changes have been made to make maintaining RNGTool's interface a little easier on me.
  • A lot of the formatting for the buttons was still located in the files using the buttons, rather than in the button's style. Most of this has been fixed, so a lot less code needs to be duplicated.
  • Buttons now can have effects, like reacting to being clicked or tapped on iOS and macOS, or appearing greyed out when disabled on macOS.
  • The buttons are now compatible with tvOS and support focus animations. This is definitely not foreshadowing a tvOS port of RNGTool or anything.

iOS

• History has been redesigned to look more like the table used in the macOS version of RNGTool, with rounded alternating-color rows and left-aligned text. This also means that multi-line results will display in your history properly, which may have previously been an issue on some smaller devices, or devices set to use a larger font size. I can't believe I had to do this manually, but tables on iOS will not display their headings or more than the first column, so they're basically useless.
• Added a fancy new dark icon, so that RNGTool will no longer stick out when using the dark icon style on iOS 18+. This also means that tinting will look more natural, as the dark icon will be tinted instead of the light one.

watchOS

• Fixed a bug where in number mode where setting the minimum number to a value higher than the maximum number would crash the app.
• Dice mode now supports rolling 3 dice rather than 2. I'm not really sure why it was capped at 2, because marble mode has always allowed 3 marbles. Justice has finally been restored.

Build Numbers
macOS: 207
iOS: 4
watchOS: 4

Important Note

The recommended way to install the iOS version of RNGTool is now the App Store, rather than by sideloading the IPA. For macOS, you can choose between the App Store and the releases here as you please, since they're functionally identical.

v3.1.0: Bugfixes and Consistency Improvements

What's new

Now that RNGTool is on the App Store, I've been able to get a lot more feedback. That also means more bugs have been found!

macOS/iOS/watchOS

• Huge consistency improvements! The placement of the controls at the bottom of each mode is a lot more consistent between modes now.
  • To keep it simple, the controls now reserve a fixed amount of space and the content above them is set to occupy as much of the remaining screen space as possible. This means that the controls will always be spaced the same and sit the same distance from the bottom of the screen/window.
• You can no longer spam the generate button in any mode. This was the cause of a whole bunch of issues, and could eventually cause the app to crash if you spammed it too much.
  • The real fix is applied internally, but this change is also shown to the user by visually disabling the generate button and any options while the generator is running.
• Pressing the reset button while a generator is running will now properly kill it and reset, even if an animation is currently playing.
• All modes now have an "i" button in the top right that will display some basic information about what the mode is and how to use it. On iOS, this includes a note about shaking your device in supported modes.
• The history screen now has a trash button in the top right that allows you to clear your history without needing to restart the app.
• The generate buttons are no longer slightly shorter than the reset buttons.

iOS

• A "Done" button has been added to the keyboard in number mode and in settings so that the keyboard can always be dismissed.
• The controls will now slide up and force the number to shrink when the keyboard is open in number mode.
  • This allows you to still access everything with the keyboard open, and makes it possible to actually use number mode with custom values on smaller phones such as the iPhone 8 or SE.
• The reset buttons will no longer clip with the bottom of the screen in some modes under certain conditions.

Build Numbers
macOS: 203 (reverted back to old build number system due to App Store Connect issue)
iOS: 5
watchOS: 3

Important Note

The recommended way to install the iOS version of RNGTool is now the App Store, rather than by sideloading the IPA. For macOS, you can choose between the App Store and the releases here as you please, since they're functionally identical.

v3.0.1: Sign-on Bonus

What's new

Thanks to the generosity of @nythepegasus, RNGTool is now notarized and published on the App Store by SideStore, LLC! That means no more sideloading is required on iOS/Apple Watch, and Gatekeeper won't get quite as worked up when you run the app on macOS. It's good news for everyone!

This release is light on actual changes, and only makes some minor adjustments to the about screen to prepare for the initial App Store release. You can expect more feature updates in the near future, however!

iOS/iPadOS/watchOS

The about screen now primarily references and links to myself (NinjaCheetah) rather than NCX Programming, as the project is really more my thing and I'm the sole developer anyway. Sorry to the other NCX Programming members, none of which do Apple dev.

Build Numbers
macOS: 8
iOS: 19
watchOS: 6

Important Note

The recommended way to install the iOS version of RNGTool is now the App Store, rather than by sideloading the IPA. For macOS, you can choose between the App Store and the releases here as you please, since they're functionally identical.

v3.0.0: The Big Redesign

What's new

A lot. Apologies in advance for anything I forget, because this is going to be one hell of a changelog 😅

macOS

General

• The update checking code has been improved, meaning that the build number no longer needs to be part of the GitHub release tag. This was a necessary change because the build number shouldn't be infinitely incremented; the number is meant to be reset to 1 each time that a new version enters development (also they never lined up with the iOS/watchOS build numbers anyway, so they were confusing).
• Replaced "Internet Settings" with "General" in the settings window.
• Toggles for generator animations have been removed from each mode's settings and are instead unified into one "Play animations in supported modes" toggle under General.
  • As a result, dice and marble modes no longer have dedicated settings pages, as their only option was to enable animations.
• Number and coin modes now support SceneStorage, meaning that their values will be retained while the app is launched, even if you switch to a different mode.
• The sidebar has been redesigned to look less bad and also to incorporate an SF symbol representing each mode.
• The separate history window has been removed, and your generator history can instead be access using the sidebar.
• The history view now takes advantage of a real life macOS table instead of two lists glued together (thanks, macOS Monterey!).
• All modes have been entirely redesigned to have clearer controls and to occupy more of the window's space, so your numbers won't feel quite as lonely anymore.
• The generate and reset buttons have been enlarged across all modes and are no longer exclusively suitable for ants.
• All modes now have a dedicated generate button, because sometimes you don't want to have to touch the dice directly.

Number Mode

• The maximum and minimum text fields are now always exposed, because hiding them away seemed a bit silly when there was so much open space.

New Mode: Coin Mode

• You can finally flip a coin from the convenience of your RNGTool!
• Supports up to 100 coin flips in one go.

Dice Mode

• You can now roll up to 18 dice, because you need something for your fancy M4 Max to do.

Card Mode

• You can now roll up to 12 cards. I don't know if any card game has you draw specifically 12 cards, but I felt like this made better use of the screen space.

Marble Mode

• You can now roll up to 18 marbles, because they're the same size as dice so if my dice can do it then why can't my marbles.
• The entire space of the marble is now clickable. Previously you needed to hit either the outer circle or the letter, because the visual empty space inside of the marble wasn't actually part of the marble.

iOS (iPadOS too!)

General

• The title on the main menu now proudly proclaims "RNGTool" instead of "Home".
• The "Interface" settings category has been renamed to "General" and has been moved to the top of the settings screen.
• Toggles for generator animations have been removed from each mode's settings and are instead unified into one "Play animations in supported modes" toggle under General.
  • As a result, dice and marble modes no longer have dedicated settings sections, as their only option was to enable animations.
• The "Credits" section of the About RNGTool page has been removed, as it was mostly unnecessary and contained credits not relevant to RNGTool.
• The copyright year now extends to the current year instead of just specifying 2022.
• I added a credit for myself at the bottom and there's nothing you can do about it.
• Advanced settings is now a proper settings page rather than a sheet, which resolves an issue on iPad where it would be dismissed at inopportune times.
• All modes have been entirely redesigned to have clearer controls and to occupy more of the screen space, so you can finally justify the cost of your M4 iPad Pro.
• Modes no longer inappropriately use scroll views, so you can't scroll through a page of nothingness anymore.
• The generate and reset buttons have been enlarged across all modes and no longer look like they're trying to hide from RNGTool's terrifying former design.
• All modes now have a dedicated generate button, because sometimes you don't want to have to handle the marbles if someone else has had their hands all over them. That's gross.

Number Mode

• The maximum and minimum text fields are now always exposed, because hiding them away seemed a bit silly when there was so much open space.
• There's now a super fancy animation that plays when you generate a number, though it's only supported on iOS 16+. Sorry iOS 15 users. iOS 17+ users get a slightly cooler animation that changes based on whether the new number was greater than or less than the previous one.

New Mode: Coin Mode

• You can finally flip a coin from the convenience of your RNGTool!
• Supports up to 50 coin flips in one go, with a charming haptic tap for each one.

Dice Mode

• The dice now wrap quite nicely, so you now only get 3 per row.
• As a result, I could fit 3 extra dice in! Wow! That's a total of 9!
• You can now shake your device to roll! This feature is sure to amaze your friends. (This feature can be disabled using the "Shake your device to generate in supported models" toggle in general settings.)

Card Mode

• The cards are now above the controls, because I felt like it was really weird that it was the only mode where the content was below the controls.

Marble Mode

• By using the same dark magic as dice mode, I've enabled wrapping and increased the maximum to 9 for marbles as well.
• The entire space of the marble is now tappable. Previously you needed to hit either the outer circle or the letter, because the visual empty space inside of the marble wasn't actually part of the marble. This might not have been a huge deal on iPhone, but on iPad you could manage to miss the actual marble.
• Also using the same dark magic as dice mode, device shaking! You can now shake your device to roll marbles. (This feature can also be disabled using the "Shake your device to generate in supported models" toggle in general settings.)

watchOS

General

• All input fields now use my new and improved custom keyboard, which allows for much easier input than trying to use the system keyboard to type numbers.
• Most settings-related changes from iOS apply here.
• Switched to the update method of showing alerts, which has an X in the corner and one button instead of two buttons you have to scroll through.
• Poor watchOS couldn't get quite the same redesign, but I still love it.

New Mode: Coin Mode

• Flip a coin, right from your wrist! It even uses fancy SF symbols to show heads/tails.

Dice Mode

• The picker used to select the number of dice looks better now and is no longer paired with off-centered text.
• The entire mode is no longer slightly offset to the left on larger Apple Watch displays.

Card Mode

• Same picker improvements as dice mode apply.

Marble Mode

• Same picker improvements as dice and card mode apply.
• The entire mode is also no longer slightly offset to the left on larger Apple Watch displays.

Build Numbers

macOS: 7
iOS: 18
watchOS: 6

Note: Installing the iOS app on your iPhone should theoretically (and hopefully) offer you the option to install the watchOS app onto your paired Apple Watch.

v2.0.0: State restoration!

What's new

macOS

• Interface settings are now separate from advanced settings.
  • These settings include "Ask to confirm resets" and "Show tap hints".
• Dice settings now uses proper SF Symbol in the tab.

iOS

• Interface settings are now separate from advanced settings and are shown in the main settings screen.
  • These settings include "Ask to confirm resets" and "Show tap hints".
• Number Mode now saves your result, max number and min number while the app is running.
  • A toggle has been added to advanced settings to disable this.
• Number settings now saves your default numbers as you type.
• Default numbers now reset correctly.
• The text on the marbles in Marble Mode now scales with the display size.

watchOS

• Interface settings are now separate from advanced settings and are shown in the main settings screen.
  • These settings include "Ask to confirm resets" and "Show tap hints".
• Number Mode now saves your result, max number and min number while the app is running.
  • A toggle has been added to advanced settings to disable this.
• Default numbers now reset correctly.
• Number settings now uses the custom keyboard.
• Marble settings now appear. Not sure why they were set not to before.

File	Type	Checksum
RNGTool-macOS.dmg	MD5	2af8af1a38b5f8e5f746851c38542a2a
RNGTool-macOS.dmg	SHA256	5b8c93ff1df47445cf0a42e42056db4a167d9b27961bb0ed6b4c6de50c5a0d27
RNGTool-iOS.ipa	MD5	6a8ae74c80fb18859b578175d2e0e7da
RNGTool-iOS.ipa	SHA256	4aa125b74dbbe07440771579cbaf183f0999be6978f68717b02f69a7b35a3549

macOS: Build 184
iOS: Build 62

Note: Installing the iOS app should give you the option to install the watchOS app through the Watch app on your phone.

Full Changelog: v1.9.3-181...v2.0.0-184

v1.9.3: Number Mode improvements on all platforms

What's new

macOS

• Number Mode has been tweaked to be more intuitive and now has larger text.

iOS

• Number Mode has been redesigned based on the improvements made to Number Mode on macOS.

watchOS

• A custom keyboard has been added for changing the range in Number Mode.
• Number Mode has been redesigned to make use of this new keyboard. The entire view now fits on the screen at once.

File	Type	Checksum
RNGTool-macOS.dmg	MD5	b2aed1d4f3a77c5628e7519262c37884
RNGTool-macOS.dmg	SHA256	97a968707dca596f3c019c39b896ffe63f6715d8e7c112b7dca4abb61fe8726a
RNGTool-iOS.ipa	MD5	140fe25d65172760e604575299d57bd3
RNGTool-iOS.ipa	SHA256	7c58c60138cdb0e5ed3103b6d91c9dac7981052b2a75d385375c571418b98eda

macOS: Build 181
iOS: Build 58

Note: Installing the iOS app should give you the option to install the watchOS app through the Watch app on your phone.

Full Changelog: v1.9.2-178...v1.9.3-180

v1.9.2: Added haptic feedback to the generators!

What's new

macOS

• Codebase improvements only.

iOS

• Codebase improvements.
• Added haptic feedback to all of the generators and some of the settings menus.

watchOS

• Codebase improvements.
• Redesigned marble mode to allow for changing the minimum and maximum numbers.
• Made marble mode match the other modes; added roll hint, added rolling animations, decreased marble max to 3 and made them larger to make them more visible
• Added haptic feedback to all of the generators and some of the settings menus.

File	Type	Checksum
RNGTool-macOS.dmg	MD5	d2fab429e7b48dd794528c7e62473413
RNGTool-macOS.dmg	SHA256	a2b2869b3d4c9fe4501d118d5f5cb8781a21ec557bb246ac0440aeb574b22e3f
RNGTool-iOS.ipa	MD5	3491812b645f746f92ac6ab69865cdf1
RNGTool-iOS.ipa	SHA256	d0c340d82c82d7de9042ef1185d60ae9c9d88a6d57deb3217ec0d2240f0f3579

macOS: Build 178
iOS: Build 54

Note: Installing the iOS app should give you the option to install the watchOS app through the Watch app on your phone.

Full Changelog: v1.9.1-177...v1.9.2-178

v1.9.1: Marble Mode Redesign and Update Checking!

What's new

macOS

• Redesigned Marble Mode to match the style of the new Dice Mode and Card Mode
• Added update checking! (In the menu bar, RNGTool -> Check for Updates...) Update checking on startup will be coming soon.
• Fixed a bug where dice mode would add to the table before it finished rolling if animations are enabled

iOS

• Redesigned Marble Mode to match the style of the new Dice Mode and Card Mode
• Fixed a bug where dice and marble modes would add to the table before they finished rolling if animations are enabled

File	Type	Checksum
RNGTool-macOS.dmg	MD5	4a7ec692b381db3a5bc127f97098c898
RNGTool-macOS.dmg	SHA256	501e5e12444f322ab85c8bfc9fe4f96370952bb1701dddac503efdacbb9a8567
RNGTool-iOS.ipa	MD5	009dfbd922cb829f06e3b52ee568c328
RNGTool-iOS.ipa	SHA256	cc0f5d1967891991af8e27837e57fd924cd7a9a29b1f244e3443bfe9ee0b432b

macOS: Build 177
iOS: Build 51

Note: Installing the iOS app should give you the option to install the watchOS app through the Watch app on your phone.

Full Changelog: v1.9-176...v1.9.1-177

v1.9: Major Overhauls! (and watchOS support!)

What's new

macOS

• Added roll/draw animations to dice mode and card mode
• Deprecated some settings that were likely to never be used (ex. all number cards with no faces, disabling dice images)
• Added settings to disable some animations
• Now respects "Reduce Motion" system setting and will not play any animations if it's enabled
• Added a window to view your number history for the current session (View -> Show History or Shift-Cmd-H)
• Removed copy buttons in card and dice modes, you can now right click the cards or dice to copy your numbers

iOS

• Added History screen to view your number history for the current session, accessible from the home screen
• Added role/draw animations to dice mode and card mode
• Deprecated some settings that were likely to never be used (ex. all number cards with no faces, disabling dice images)
• Added settings to disable some animations
• Now respects "Reduce Motion" system setting and will not play any animations if it's enabled
• You can now press and hold on the dice and cards to copy your numbers
• Added custom about screen
• Moved settings button to the opposite side of the screen
• Added a launch screen
• Updated icon

watchOS

• All modes are available
• Number mode currently only supports the default range of 0 to 100, unless you edit the defaults (which is currently inconvenient on Apple Watch)
• Supports rolling up to 2 dice and drawing up to 3 cards

Overall, the UI is much easier to interact with on iOS now, which was heavily influenced by the cut back watchOS UI. All in all, I think these new features were worth the 2+ month development time.

File	Type	Checksum
RNGTool-macOS.dmg	MD5	076eefe2b7f9ac27445db7af466eaa8b
RNGTool-macOS.dmg	SHA256	3c8dd4aa6c719ed51829d84462ecb1a120548f0dd6ae3d6cf56a21b885d1a785
RNGTool-iOS.ipa	MD5	d242690f66758e85a6618809bbf63959
RNGTool-iOS.ipa	SHA256	e513362a760757b573975cd8152db156d3b8f53fc13370e40afffe03b1a38d5e

macOS: Build 176
iOS: Build 49

Note: Installing the iOS app should give you the option to install the watchOS app through the Watch app on your phone.