CareRing v1.0.5 - Production Release

🚀 CareRing v1.0.5 — Production Release

🧭 2-Finger Map Rotation & Compass Navigation

• Touch Bearing Gestures: Seamlessly rotate the interactive map using intuitive two-finger pivot gestures.
• Animated Compass Heading: Integrated dynamic compass needle indicating map bearing in real time with single-tap True-North reset.

🟦 Harmonized Rounded Square UI System

• Ergonomic Design Alignment: Standardized all floating map action controls (Map Layers, Compass, Recenter GPS, Chat) to uniform rounded squares (borderRadius: 12), eliminating inconsistent button shapes.
• Pixel-Flush Alignment: Adjusted side margins down the right screen edge for a cohesive modern look.

🗺️ Top-Right Map Styles Picker

• Direct Style Access: Relocated the map type selector to the top-right floating stack for instant switching between Satellite, Topographic, CyclOSM, and Outdoor vector styles.

👥 Life360-Style Multi-Person Group Clustering

• Composite Cluster Pins: Smart geographic cluster grouping displaying member face badges, count indicators, status callouts, and pointer tails when members are in close proximity.

🚨 Emergency SOS Siren Audio & Volume Boost

• Audible Siren System: High-decibel audio siren support for emergency alerts with hardware volume boost and customizable alert sound preferences.

🔐 In-Page Settings & Unified Layout Architecture

• In-Page Subviews: All settings sections (Server Config, Background Permissions, Safety Debug, Create Circle, Join with Code) navigate directly within the page with smooth back stack support.
• Clean Saved Place Geofencing: Streamlined place creation drawer hiding other circle members on the map during place selection.
• Universal Design Tokens: Consistent 18px page gutters, 14px card padding, and unified typography across the application.

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📦 Installation

Download CareRing-latest.apk, tap the file on your Android smartphone, enable "Install from unknown sources" if prompted, and launch CareRing.

CareRing v1.0.4 - Production Release

🚀 CareRing v1.0.4 — Production Release

♾️ Lifetime Unbounded Movement Timelines

• Unlimited Days History & Timelines: Commercial apps artificially paywall history to 2 days on free tiers and 30 days on $19.99/mo plans. CareRing provides complete, unbounded lifetime route breadcrumbs, stop durations, and interactive map route playbacks extending back to the day members joined. Zero paywalls, zero artificial cutoffs.
• Interactive Daily Picker: Fluid navigation through daily movement archives with stop durations, arrival/departure timestamps, and integrated mini-map replay.

🛑 Motion Intelligence & Driving Safety

• Rapid Accel & Hard Braking Detection: High-precision inertial accelerometer monitoring isolates aggressive throttle launches and abrupt deceleration spikes, tagging exact road coordinates.
• Driver Safety Leaderboard: Circle-wide safe driving rankings comparing scores (0–100), safe driver badges, and weekly summaries. Main driving metrics stay isolated to your self profile for clear privacy.
• 5-Point Driving Event Classifier: High-frequency telemetry classifying Speeding, Phone Distraction, Rapid Accel, Hard Braking, and Harsh Cornering with dedicated horizontal filter chips.
• Smart Activity State Machine: Autonomous sensor fusion distinguishing Stationary, Walking, Running, Cycling, and Driving states with adaptive GPS throttling (<1% battery drain/hour).

💬 Communication & Quick Check-Ins

• Contextual Quick Status Presets: Dispatch instant situational check-ins ("On my way", "Arrived safely", "Running late", "Need a ride") with a single tap directly to your family feed.
• Encrypted Circle & Direct Messaging: Instant circle feeds and confidential 1-on-1 private messaging with physics-bounced multi-typer indicators.

🛠️ In-App Engineering Pipeline & Roadmap

• Added dedicated Pipeline module catalog across the mobile app and Web Showcase, providing open transparency into features in active engineering:

• 💥 Multi-Sensor Hardware Crash Impact Detection (Target: Q4 2026)
• 💾 Offline SQLite Telemetry Sync Queue (Target: Q4 2026)
• 📡 Low-Power BLE Proximity Mesh Radar (Target: Q1 2027)
• 🛠️ 24/7 Roadside Assistance Service Integrations (Target: Q1 2027)
• ⌚ Wear OS & Apple Watch Glance Companions (Target: Q1 2027)
• 📶 Wi-Fi BSSID Safe Zone Beacons (Target: Q2 2027)

🧹 Integrity & Ecosystem Polish

• Purged phantom placeholder features (live map floating emoji reactions, unreleased crash detection beta card, mock roadside assistance grid, and mock crime feed switches) across all catalog screens, terms, and web showcases. Every feature shown in the catalog is now 100% verified and production-ready.

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📦 Installation

Download CareRing-v1.0.4-production.apk (or CareRing-latest.apk), tap the file on your Android smartphone, enable "Install from unknown sources" if prompted, and launch CareRing.

CareRing v1.0.1 - Patch Release

🚀 CareRing v1.0.1 — Patch Release

✨ New Features

• 👑 Circle Roles & Governance — Full Owner / Admin / Member permission hierarchy. Owners can promote/demote members and remove anyone. Admins can remove regular members only.
• 🏷️ Private Member Nicknames — Set personal nicknames for any circle member, stored locally on your device only. Never synced to the server or visible to others.
• 💖 Favorites Map Radar — Mark members as favorites to pin them on the live map radar with a directional beacon. Non-favorited members remain in the list view only.
• 📏 Live Distance to Members — Real-time straight-line distance from your GPS position shown on each member card in the circle list.
• 🚨 Improved Emergency SOS — Contact cards now show real avatar photos, full name, and phone number. Contact list is independently scrollable.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed remove member failing for circle owners (UUID normalization missing in 3 backend endpoints)
• Fixed stale role detection in Circle Settings modal — now falls back to members list for accurate owner/admin check
• Fixed SOS contact card layout — avatar, name, and call button were overlapping on small screens
• Fixed isSelf detection in privacy bubble masking (was using raw userId instead of normalized UUID)

📦 Installation

Download the APK below, tap the file on your Android device, enable "Install from unknown sources", and launch CareRing.

CareRing v1.0.0 - Production Release

💍 CareRing v1.0.0 Release

• Custom Self-Hosted Server Switcher: Connect to your private self-hosted backend (Fastify + PostGIS Docker/VPS) or official cloud with live /health latency testing
• Official Landing Page Integration: Direct access to features, 6 map styles, and documentation at https://care-ring.vercel.app
• 60 FPS Coordinate Interpolation: Hardware-accelerated smooth coordinate transitions and live battery/speed telemetry markers
• Battery Preservation: Adaptive motion sensor fusion (<1%/hour battery drain)
• PostGIS Geofencing: Sub-second arrival and departure circle alerts
• Real-Time Messaging: Real-time group circle chat and confidential 1-on-1 direct messaging with live typing indicators
• Emergency SOS System: Circle-wide emergency broadcast siren and 1-tap local emergency dispatch (112/911)
• Driver Safety Analytics: Speeding detection, braking telemetry, and weekly driver safety scorecards
• Cloud Infrastructure: Live managed backend deployed on Render