v1.16.1

Bug fixes

Overlay

• Fixed a crash when using the screen recorder to extract text in Android 14. It's now required to always ask for permission when taking a screenshot for devices running Android 14 onwards.
• For the debug app, fixed a crash when a leak was detected using the overlay.

v1.16.0

What's new

Text Info Dialog

• The sentence dialog has been completely redesigned using Jetpack Compose while keeping the same capabilities, making the UI fit better the content to display and adding new features:
  • Tapping a word of the original text shows a bar that contains its translation, it also has buttons to save this word (using a new dialog made in Compose that allows to save or edit/delete the word) and show more information (using the external links database)
  • Tapping a translated sentence highlights the original sentence (same behavior as the text visualizer)
  • Can have both a word and sentence highlighted at the same time.
• The word layout now uses the new Compose dialog that can save/edit/delete a word, this allowed to combine the edit button and bookmark button into one.

Bug Fixes

Text Info Dialog

• Fixed inconsistent size of the small dialog because it was using pixels instead of dp.

Web Reader

• Fixed the text handles showing over the bottom sheet with the WebView. The context menu is now closed when the text gets translated.
• The language spinner now uses a LazyColumn which provides better performance because it doesn't load all the items at once.

New tech

• Bumped target SDK to 34.
• Upgrade Kotlin to 1.9.23.
• Upgraded to Android Gradle Plugin to 8.3.2.
• Other updated dependencies: Google services, Dagger/Hilt, AndroidX Navigation, Crashlytics, Room.
• Enabled KSP, initial usage was for Room.

Misc

• The .idea folder is now in .gitignore
• Updated the app name to just "Speakable" without the "(Text to Speech)" part. The option in the context menu was changed from TTS to Speakable.

v1.15.2

Bug fixes

Overlay

• The initial snip area is now correct for API 33 (Android 13) devices.
• Fixed the selected area was wrong for devices with a cutout.
• Fixed touch events not responding when the overlay was visible in devices with API 30 (Android 11).
• Fixed loading icon displaying forever if no OCR is found in the device.
• Replaced toasts with snackbars to show errors.
• Fixed misalignments with the bubble.
• The translation pop window now uses the light/dark set theme.
• Fixed the bubble getting stuck in the nav bar area.
• The foreground notification is now shown for Android 13+

Text Visualizer

• Fixed not being able to import files in Android 13
• Fixed not being able to open epub files in Lollipop (API 21 and 22)
• Fixed page not covering the whole space in full-screen mode for devices with a virtual nav bar.
• The page now has the correct size for devices with a cutout.
• The page doesn't overlap control/labels while in non full-screen mode.
• The status bar is now transparent for APIs 23+, same for the nav bar for APIs 27+.
• Fixed text getting cut off for certain screen densities and newer versions of Android.
• Fixed the theme not applying correctly for the settings window and info dialog, also improved the color contrast.
• By default, the visualizer theme is now the app's theme, it still can be changed to a different theme.

Misc

Text Info Dialog

• Enabled showing this dialog using the clipboard for Marshmallow and lower because the context menu is not available.

v1.15.1

Bug fixes

Web Reader

• Fixed layout errors in the translation bottom sheet.
• Fixed translation sheet blocking the text at the bottom.
• Fixed a case where the note text had an offset.
• Fixed several issues related to saving/deleting notes:
  • The button for editing notes wasn't working and sometimes it had an incorrect icon
  • The more information button now shows a message if no default language is selected (before it did nothing).
  • Notes sometimes were not deleted
  • The button for creating a note was incorrectly shown when the page wasn't saved.
  • The delete button is no longer shown in the edit note dialog if the note is new.

Text Info Dialog

• Custom tabs is now the default way to view web links because it's more stable and faster than using a regular browser.
• Fixed dialog not showing when granting overlay permission for the first time.

v1.15.0

What's new

Web Reader

• Can save pages to local storage
• Added the ability to add notes to the text of saved pages.
• Changed gestures for interacting with the text:
  • Long-press to select text
  • Tap to translate a word
  • Double-tap to select a sentence
  • Horizontal swipe to expand the paragraph
• Can save the note of a word within a selected sentence

Bug fixes

Text Visualizer

• Fixed the thumbnails not showing in the recent files list the first time a book is imported.

Web Reader

• Fixed the text flickering when doing gestures to the text (e.g. tapping a word, sentence navigation, etc.).
• Fixed cutoff translation text in the bottom sheet.

Overlay

• Removed clipboard mode, the newer Android versions (sdk > 28) don't allow apps to interact with the clipboard if the app is not visible
• Fixed nothing happening when the user clicks the TTS toolbar button and they don't have the required permission. The app now asks for permission.

Text Info dialog

• Play button is shown red if the language is not available
• The sentence dialog now has a max lines limit. It's also now scrollable.

New tech

• Upgraded to Android Gradle Plugin 8.1.1.

Misc

• Added full unit test coverage for ViewModels/Presenters

v1.14.0

What's new

Web Reader

• New layout for the web reader.
• Can select paragraphs and translate them.
• Can highlight and translate sentences
• Added a bottom panel that has WebView that loads the link of the selected word, it has a list with other links to load.
• New bottom sheet with translation of a highlighted sentence and/or translation of a word.
• Added a bottom bar to the web reader, it has a sentence navigator and a spinner that lets the user indicate the language of the text.
• Added cache for the translations

Saved Words

• Improved layout in the saved words fragment
• Can search in the saved words.

Overlay

• Overlay layout now shows errors using a Snackbar instead of a Toast.
• Improved the popup translation layout (made it bigger and the text is scrollable)
• Shows the full names of the languages instead of the ISO in the popup translation
• Shows the detected language in the icon container instead of using a Toast.

Others

• New dialog that shows the app version in the main activity.
• Bumped targetSDKversion to 33
• New list showing the most recent links opened using the web reader.
• Added a suggestion list in the save word dialog when entering the language.
• Can move the app to the SD card

Bug fixes

Text Visualizer

• Fixed text having different proportions between default and full-screen modes.
• Fixed crash when touching a blank space.
• Fixed crash when pinching the visualizer
• Fixed highlights not being removed when sliding pages
• The shown page is now more accurate when rotating the visualizer

Text Info dialog

• Fixed crash when closing the dialog while the initial data was still loading.
• Fixed the dialog crashing when selecting text with white space at the end.
• Fixed crash when showing only the translation of a single word (no dictionary data).

Web Reader

• Fixed "obj" boxes showing
• Fixed the start index of a selected word being off by one.

Overlay

• Fixed layout leaking when using the overlay mode.
• Fixed ClipboardManager leaking.
• Fixed launching activities directly from the screen text service (it's recommended to use a pending intent and notification).
• Fixed overlay getting the wrong text for devices with a virtual navigation bar.

Others

• Fixed the bookmark button not working properly at all.
• Fixed crash when starting action mode in saved words.
• Fixed poor contrast in the recent files FABs in light mode

New tech

• Added ExecutorService for classes that use interactors with Java
• Added Moshi for JSON parsing
• Enabled Java 11.
• Added Timber for logging
• Enabled Jetpack Compose UI, from now on all new layouts will be done using it.
• Updated to Kotlin 1.8.0

v1.13.0

What's new

• New reader for web articles
• Can pinch to toggle text visualizer full-screen mode.
• Language picker on the main screen shows the full name of the languages

Bug fixes

• Fixed crash when starting overlay mode
• Text visualizer doesn't open the info dialog when scrolling and it's smoother
• Info dialog opens with the correct width
• Fixed last page didn't correctly save

New tech

• Updated to the new firebase SDK for the text recognizer

v1.12.0

What's new

• Brand new layout with bottom navigation with tabs
• New layout for Import Text tab
• Can delete items from the recent files list
• State of each screen is kept when changing screen using the bottom navigation

Bug fixes

• Fixed svg and img tags not displaying images in the text visualizer
• Fixed saving empty item in the recent files list
• Fixed toast messages showing 2 times

New tech

• Using Jetpack Navigation Component
• Implemented new Hilt library for dependency injection
• Added Flow API

v1.11.0

• Improved loading time of epub files
• New feature: Added slider to text visualizer, navigating through the chapter is now faster and easier.
• New feature: Added split mode, it allows you to split a page in two in the text visualizer. The split page has a top half with the original text and a bottom half with translation. The bottom half implements a Material Bottom Sheet which can be collapsed.
• Fixed bugs and crashes when rotating screen.

v1.10.0

• Text dialog can now be dragged and dismissed with a swipe
• Text dialog shown inside the file/epub reader has now the same color theme as the reader
• Recent files list shows a progress bar for each file
• Fixed several memory leaks
• Fixed several layout issues