v2.5
v2.5
Everything since v2.4.3.
Added
- Satellite imagery background, from NOAA's GOES satellites — public domain, keyless. A close crop for the continental US; a whole-Earth view from the nearest satellite elsewhere, where one is usably in view; a plain "not available here" for the real gap in coverage, roughly the Middle East through Southeast Asia, where neither satellite has a usable view.
- Real moon phase. The night scene used to draw a fixed crescent regardless of the date. It now shows the actual current phase — new, crescent, quarter, gibbous, full — computed from the date with no network call, and correctly mirrored for the Southern Hemisphere, where a waxing moon is lit on the opposite side from what Northern Hemisphere viewers see.
- Reduce screen burn-in — a subtle, slow pixel-shift applied to the panel, on by default, to spread wear on OLED and plasma displays. Imperceptible on anything else.
- Settings reorganized into 8 categories — Location, Appearance, Weather info, Clock, Screen & layout, Experimental, Demo mode, Housekeeping — replacing one long scrolling list.
Fixed
- Weather for a location far from the device's own time zone could show the wrong day/night phase, wrong-timed advice, or the wrong "yesterday" comparison. All three had been using the device's clock instead of the displayed location's, which only matters when they differ — most visibly for New Zealand viewed from a US-based device. Fixed using the location's own UTC offset.
- The radar map's credit line was wrong. It named OpenStreetMap regardless of settings, even though the map has been drawn from bundled Natural Earth data for a long time. Now credits correctly.
- Three separate settings had ended up silently duplicated during earlier development — a checkbox appearing twice in the list, a duplicated string resource, and a duplicated internal property — all traced back to the same root cause and all now a single, correct copy each.
- A community pack description still claimed animated (Lottie) packs kept the weather readout, a claim already corrected in the contributor documentation once the Lottie limitation was found, but never fixed in the app itself.
Removed
- The Lottie self-test diagnostic tool. It existed to answer one question — whether the launcher could load a Lottie animation from this plugin's URI at all — and it already gave a clear answer, so it was just clutter after that.
Notes
- Satellite coverage depends on which of two US weather satellites can usably see a given location; there's a real gap with no free alternative.
- No settings were removed in the reorganization, only regrouped — anything you used before is still there, just under one of the 8 categories.
Full Changelog: v.2.4.4...v2.5