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Word Guesser 2.3 — the scenic-backdrop release

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@abons abons released this 29 Jul 14:58
v2.3
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Word Guesser 2.3 — the scenic-backdrop release.

Since 2.2:

  • A scenic backdrop behind the board. Eight themes — mountains, ocean, forest, desert, city,
    night, meadow, autumn — drawn entirely with Canvas primitives. No image assets and no new
    dependency, so the APK got smaller rather than bigger.
  • One scene per game. Free play, timed and vs-computer roll a random one. Today's daily looks
    the same for everyone, in every language and at every word length, because its seed comes from
    the UTC day alone. An online duel derives the scene from the room code and the round number,
    which both phones already know, so nothing extra crosses the wire.
  • High contrast turns the backdrop off and restores the flat dark background. That setting
    exists to maximise tile and letter contrast, and a picture behind the board fights it. Unscored
    tiles are a little more opaque now as well, so white letters keep something to sit on over the
    brightest sky.
  • Smaller than 2.2 all the same: 103,054 bytes against 107,251, because the debug-only
    screenshot harness no longer survives into the release build.

What it costs to draw: measured against itself on a Motorola edge 30 neo, whose screen runs at
90 Hz (an 11.1 ms frame budget), over 50 frames of an identical tap sequence per side: with the
scene 9 ms median / 13 ms at the 90th percentile / 1 janky frame, without it 7 / 9 / 0. One skipped
frame in fifty. Turn on high contrast if you would rather have the flat board back.

APK: 103,054 bytes, versionCode 5, minSdk 21 / targetSdk 34, R8 + resource shrinking.
SHA-256: c967f95fac81ef0575bc647849ae4e64b89b2fab8838756152652306cc9ce1f0
Signing cert SHA-256: f6787964f8e619e59185360034df1ad16de88e13f94a61539e348761cf0e7d63 —
the same key as 1.0, so this installs as an update.

These are the exact bytes that have been live on the download page and in the F-Droid repo since
2026-07-28; nothing was rebuilt for this release, it only adds a second place to get them.

Also in the shared hrbons F-Droid repo: https://abons.github.io/wordguesser/fdroid/repo

Still: no ads, no tracking, no billing, no third-party runtime dependencies.

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