Pixel Notes Beta 1.4.2

What's New in 1.4.2-beta
• The "Magic Brush" Overhaul: A professional-grade Swipe-to-Select system. Swipe diagonally on tablets or vertically on phones to paint your selection across any grid configuration with 100% accuracy.

• Bidirectional Haptics: You can now feel your selection. Items "tick" as you paint them and "tick" as you erase them with a reverse swipe.
• 60fps Autoscroll Motor: Replaced choppy scrolling with a continuous, butter-smooth glide. It's paced to protect your device from overheating while allowing you to select hundreds of notes in one motion.

• Persistent Selection: Crushed the "Ghost Tap" bug. Once a note is selected via long-press, it stays selected until you intentionally change it.
• Stability & UI Fixes:

◦ Empty Trash: Restored the confirmation dialog for permanent deletions.
◦ PDF Import Bridge: Fixed the main-screen PDF import failure.
◦ Profile Center: Restored your avatar/profile picture to its home in the top-right corner.
◦ Smart Back-Navigation: The back gesture now prioritizes clearing your folders before closing the app

Pixel Notes Beta 1.4.0

What's New in 1.4.0-beta
• Proprietary .pxnote Format: Pixel Notes now has its own official file extension! Export and share individual notes with friends. Unlike PDFs, .pxnote files are fully interactive—all strokes, text, and media remain editable after import.

• Intelligent Handshake Merge: Fixed the "Bully Bug" during sign-in. Your local notes now merge safely with your cloud library record-by-record, ensuring no data is ever overwritten during account transitions.

• Robust Local Backups: Non-cloud users can now create and restore full ZIP backups directly to their device storage with the same high-integrity VACUUM INTO technology used for cloud sync.

• Adaptive Phone UI: The Drawing Screen is now fully optimized for phones. Toolbars and pen options are now horizontally scrollable, and the note title adjusts its width dynamically to fit narrow screens.

• One-Tap System Integration: Pixel Notes is now the official handler for .pxnote files. Tap any note in your File Manager or "Share" one from WhatsApp to instantly import and auto-open it in the editor.

• Enhanced Asset Portability: Improved URI remapping ensures that all images and audio clips are correctly localized and linked whenever you import a shared note or restore a backup.

Pixel Notes Beta 1.3.0

What's New in 1.3.0-beta
• Google Drive Cloud Sync: Securely backup and restore your notes, PDFs, and audio recordings using your Google account.
• Modern Auth: Smooth sign-in experience using the latest Android Credential Manager.
• Material 3 Expressive UI: A complete visual overhaul. Every icon and button now morphs and responds with fluid, spring-based geometric animations.
• Premium Loading: A sophisticated 7-stage morphing progress indicator replaces old toast messages.
• New FAB: The "Add Note" button now features a unique Square-to-Rhomboid transformation.
• Audio Notes: Record high-quality voice notes directly onto your canvas with draggable playback icons.
• Refined Navigation: Improved top bar, side menu, and a new Keep-style profile management dialog.

Pixel Notes Beta 1.2.0

• Audio Notes Integration: minimalist floating recorder and player in the drawing screen.
• Canvas Audio Interaction: Interactable audio icons placed directly on the note page for context-aware recordings.
• Google Drive Cloud Sync: Secure backup and restore system using the hidden App Data folder on Google Drive.
• Credential Security: Implemented Secrets Gradle Plugin to secure API keys and Client IDs from public exposure.
• Session Persistence: Improved login flow with automatic session restoration across app restarts.
• Modern Authentication: Integrated Android Credential Manager for a seamless Google Sign-In experience.

Pixel Notes Beta 1.1.1

Implement infinite canvas mode with sub-pixel rendering.

Improve PDF export accuracy for vector-based layouts.

Fix note duplication issue during save operations.

Enhance pinch-to-zoom performance for standard note layouts.

Pixel Notes Beta 1.0.0

Welcome to the first official Beta of Pixel Notes! We are leaving the Alpha phase behind by rewriting the core engines to deliver a professional-grade experience.

✨ What's New

• 🚀 "Just-in-Time" PDF Engine: Instant import of massive documents (even those with thousands of pages) thanks to the new real-time rendering. Zero impact on device memory.
• 📸 Floating Images: New native integration with the camera and gallery. Insert photos directly onto the canvas, resize them, and draw over them.
• 🪄 Advanced Smart Lasso: The selection tool now features 4 dynamic corner handles that allow you to scale and move strokes, text, and images simultaneously.
• 🎨 Material Expressive Redesign: All top menus (Add, Export, Paper, Canvas) have been fully redesigned with rounded corners, bold typography, and descriptive iconography for a Premium feel.
• 🧹 Storage Manager & Garbage Collection: New panic button in the Settings screen to free up space, plus an automatic background system that destroys orphaned physical PDF files when a note is deleted.

🛠️ Under the Hood

• Structural migration to database v10.
• Implemented Chunked Bulk Inserts to prevent memory bottlenecks in SQLite.
• Replaced the heavy JPEG extraction engine with on-demand asynchronous rendering using PdfRenderer.

Pixel Notes v0.5.0-alpha

What's new in v0.5.0-alpha

This massive update transforms Pixel Notes from a single-page whiteboard into a fully-fledged digital notebook engine, complete with professional selection tools and continuous scrolling.

📓 Multi-Page Architecture & Continuous Scroll

• Infinite Notebooks: Add as many pages as you want to a single note.
• Continuous Vertical Scroll: Seamlessly pan down from one page to the next while drawing, just like reading a real PDF document, even while fully zoomed in.
• Drag & Drop Reordering: Open the floating pages panel and long-press any page thumbnail to drag it up or down and reorganize your notebook instantly.
• Single Page Export: Use the 3-dot menu on any page thumbnail to export just that specific page to PDF.

✂️ Advanced Lasso Selection Tool

• Free-Form & Rectangular Selection: Choose how you want to select your strokes.
• Drag to Move: Catch your strokes and drag them anywhere on the page smoothly.
• Instant Recoloring: Change the color of entire blocks of text/drawings with a single tap from the selection menu.
• Group Deletion: Erase large areas of selected strokes effortlessly.

🛠️ Quality of Life Improvements

• Decoupled Eraser Width: The normal eraser now has its own independent width slider, completely separate from the pen's width.
• Smart Menus: Floating glassmorphism sidebars and unified top navigation that won't shrink your canvas.
• Anti-Ghost Touches: Fixed an issue where drawing would bleed through open menus.
• Global Undo/Redo: The memory stack now perfectly tracks which page you drew on, restoring strokes to their exact page no matter how far you've scrolled.

Pixel Notes v0.4.0-alpha (The Canvas Update)

What's new in v0.4.0-alpha (The Canvas Update)

This monumental update completely overhauls the drawing experience, bringing professional-grade tools and a stunning Material Expressive interface to the canvas.

• Material Expressive Canvas UI: Floating, translucent glassmorphism toolbars that maximize drawing space and elegantly reveal sub-menus only when needed.
• Hardware Stylus & Palm Rejection: Full native support for active styluses (like S-Pen and USI 2.0). The canvas intelligently ignores your palm.
• Finger Navigation Mode: A new toggle allows you to lock finger-drawing. Use your stylus to write and your fingers exclusively to pan and zoom around the note safely.
• Native Paper Templates: Choose between Blank, Lined, Grid, or Dotted paper. These are mathematically generated vectors, meaning zero file size impact and perfect sharpness when exported to PDF.
• Dynamic Canvas Colors: Change the background color of your notes (Dark, Cream, Blue, etc.), which are perfectly preserved in PDF exports.
• Advanced Eraser & Undo Stack: Erase entire strokes with a single tap using the new "Stroke Eraser" mode, and enjoy a robust Undo/Redo memory stack.
• Multi-Selection Actions: Long-press multiple notes in the main grid to reveal a dynamic bulk-action menu. Move, delete, or merge dozens of notes into a single PDF instantly.

Pixel Notes v0.3.0-alpha

What's new in v0.3.0-alpha (The Expressive Update)

• Material Expressive UI: Translucent glassmorphism surfaces and dynamic color theming.
• Nested Folder Architecture: Create customized, infinitely nested folders to organize your notes.
• Fluid Digital Ink: Upgraded the drawing engine with Quadratic Bezier curves for buttery smooth, realistic strokes.
• True Eraser: The eraser now cleanly clears ink without destroying background template images.
• Context Menus & Sharing: Long-press notes to export to PDF, share to other apps, move to folders, or delete.
• Smart Auto-Save: Background lifecycle observation ensures you never lose a note if you exit the app suddenly.

Pixel Notes v0.2.0-alpha

What's new in v0.2.0-alpha

• Local database persistence using Room.
• High-performance drawing canvas with vector strokes.
• Drawing tools: Color palette, dynamic stroke width, and undo capability.
• Seamless PDF generation maintaining A4 aspect ratio.