v0.3.0

Added

• Aerial station registry with featured stations, country and genre filters, and quick genre playback.
• Home screen favorites tiles with a mini-player and expanded now playing flow.
• Show what's playing setting for song, artist, and artwork details when stations provide them.
• Repeatable quality task for compile, lint, and unit test checks.

Changed

• Station discovery, home playback, now playing, and settings UI were simplified around the new tile-based experience.
• Add-station entry points now use clearer Add a station language.
• Store screenshots and metadata now showcase discovery, favorites playback, now playing, and settings.
• Backup export/import now focuses on stations and saved logos.

Removed

• Monochrome logo setting.
• Bitrate display setting and user-facing bitrate/HD badges.
• Legacy Radio Browser search, fallback cache, voting/click tracking, and bundled fallback JSON.
• Debug-only provider station import flow and its provider discovery helpers.
• Obsolete list/grid view state and unused resources left behind by the UI refactor.

Fixed

• Tapping media notification controls no longer creates a new activity when the app is already running.
• Tapping media notification controls restores the now playing view without animation if it was open before backgrounding.
• Mini player and playback state now restore correctly when returning to the app from a notification.
• Now playing view, favorites filter, and list/grid scroll position all survive Activity recreation (e.g. after the system reclaims memory while the player service keeps running).
• White flash before Compose renders on app launch is eliminated.

v0.2.0

Added

• Material 3 Expressive station discovery and playback refinements.
• Home now scrolls to and briefly highlights a station after it is added from discovery.
• Monochrome station logos in Settings on Android 10+.
• Android media controls now include a favorite button that reflects the current station state.
• Splash screen shown on launch while the station database loads.

Changed

• Radio Browser requests now use a shuffled DNS-discovered server list and retry the next server when one fails.
• Audio playback enables Media3 audio offload when the device and stream support it.
• The expanded player now shows numeric bitrate when available.
• Removed the bundled custom font and restored Material default typography.

Fixed

• Media controller no longer crashes when switching between dark and light mode.
• Station discovery search and results flows are more stable and easier to recover from errors.
• Station logos keep their original SVG for in-app display and get a PNG media-control copy when imported.
• Adding a discovered station now reuses and highlights an existing station instead of creating a duplicate.
• Playback failures now clear buffering and show a concise error in the active station UI.

v0.1.1

[0.1.1] - 2026-06-18

Added

• Full-row station discovery actions so tapping a result adds it directly.
• Material 3 expressive loading states in the mini-player and home buffering row.
• Swipe-down dismissal and sharing in the expanded radio view.
• F-Droid/Fastlane metadata, screenshots, and a repeatable screenshot capture script.
• Locally bundled Google Sans Flex font files under the SIL Open Font License.

Changed

• Mini-player, home list, and station grid spacing were tightened so row and grid actions stay reachable.
• The home buffering state now shows explicit loading feedback instead of a paused state.
• The add-station FAB now uses the Material 3 expressive toggle style and moves off screen while scrolling.
• README screenshots were refreshed with matching light and dark Mango playback flows.
• Release APKs no longer include Android dependency metadata signing blocks, allowing F-Droid binary scanning.

v0.1.0

Added

• Station and settings backup export/import, including locally saved station logos.
• Material 3 aligned home, station list, station grid, search, empty state, and settings updates.
• Adaptive launcher icon assets, including themed icon support.
• Android backup rules that exclude the internal logo cache from system backup and transfer.
• GitHub Actions CI for unit tests, Android lint, and debug APK builds.
• GitHub release workflow for tag-based draft releases with release APK artifacts.
• Unit tests for Radio Browser station de-duplication.
• Initial production-readiness baseline for Aerial.

Changed

• Search is now launched from the top app bar to preserve home-screen space.
• The empty home state directs first-time users to station discovery.
• Settings no longer includes the placeholder About section.