PaperScrape v5.10 — Stable

v5.10

This release makes every switch tell the truth, makes the wallpaper lighter on your phone, and
lets you have palms on any theme. Most of it is about the settings saying what really happens,
and doing what they say.

• Switches that tell the truth. A switch is now on only while what it promises is actually
  happening. When something stops it (a permission, a setting of your phone, another wallpaper set
  as your background, another switch, or an amount at 0 %), the switch shows off, the line under it
  says what is missing, and a tap takes you where to put it right. Your own choice is kept, and comes
  back by itself once nothing is missing. This covers "Notify me about new versions", "Live Weather",
  "Realistic Moon Phases", the night birds, "Thunderstorm", "Swipe scroll", and every switch whose
  amount is at 0 %.

• Lighter on your phone. On our test phone the wallpaper now uses about a fifth less of the
  processor by day and nearly a quarter less at night, and next to nothing while it is out of sight.
  It gives memory back after you close the settings and when the phone runs short of it, and it
  deletes a downloaded update once that update is installed.

• Your theme from the first picture. When the wallpaper starts, it shows your own theme straight
  away; before, Sunset flashed for a moment first.

• Smoother, on our test phone, by day, at night and in rain or snow. Only under the heaviest rain
  (rain at 100 %, or a downpour from Live Weather) do a few more pictures than before reach the screen
  a moment late.

• Palms on any theme. "Palms", now in World & scene under Trees, works on every theme: the palms
  take the place of the ordinary trees, in the same spots, and Christmas firs stay firs. On themes
  that had no palms it starts off. "Reset Trees to default" puts the palms back as the theme comes;
  "Reset decorations to defaults" no longer touches them. "Summer" is gone from Seasons &
  decorations: it only held the palms.

• New versions, sooner and in full. "Check for updates automatically" is now called "Check for
  updates when I open PaperScrape", which is what it always did. With "Notify me about new versions"
  on, the wallpaper looks for a new version about every three hours instead of once a day, and when
  nothing has changed it downloads almost nothing. The update window shows the notes of every version
  since yours, whole: before, they were cut after about six thousand characters, and versions too far
  back were left out.

• Your phone's location, asked for less and honestly. The position from your phone is asked for
  at most once an hour; if a search finds nothing, it tries again after 5, 15 and 30 minutes. Without
  the location permission no position from your phone is used at all, not even an old one. Weather &
  time says when the permission is missing or the phone's location is off, and a tap takes you there.

• A fixed hour is the same everywhere. With the time frozen at a fixed hour, sunrise is at 6:00
  and sunset at 20:00 wherever you are, and your phone is not asked for its position.

• Resets do what they say. "Reset decorations to defaults" now asks first, and also clears the
  heaps of snow and leaves. "Reset this theme's scene" tells you that Motion stays, because every
  theme shares it. In the gallery, "Reset to default" now also clears the changes you made from the
  menus, and "Replace with current" asks first.

• A saved theme keeps its look. Changing anything in World & scene or Seasons & decorations on a
  theme you saved in the gallery no longer brings back how that theme looked out of the box.

• The lake at 0 % is off. At a height of 0 % the lake is now simply off: "Show Lake" says so,
  and a tap brings it back. The gallery cards no longer show trees, clouds, boats or anything else
  you have set to 0 %.

• Picking a theme while the calendar chooses now asks whether to show it anyway, and turns the
  automatic theme by date off if you say yes. Before, the pick changed nothing.

• While Live Weather is in charge, the Clouds and the Rain and snow pages no longer show their
  switches, which could read off with the forecast's clouds on screen: they say the forecast decides.

• Clearer lines everywhere. Among them: the buildings' slider is called Towers, because the shops
  always stay; at 0 % there is still one car, and turning the cars off takes the road away too; each
  bird colour says what share of the flock it gets; "Christmas lights" says it also turns one tree in
  three into a fir with presents; a slider is greyed while its switch is off; Weather & time asks for
  a key only for the weather service you chose.

• Behind the scenes, the project's working notes were put in order. Nothing in the app changes for
  it.

Nothing else you have set has changed: your themes, colours and sliders are as you left them.

Still the case since v5.3: this version does not install on Intel-based devices or emulators,
Chromebooks running Android apps included. v5.2 remains the last version that does.

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🔒 Verify this build: check PaperScrape-v5.10.apk.sha256, or run gh attestation verify PaperScrape-v5.10.apk --repo urgali/paperscrape.