PaperScrape v5.14 — Stable

v5.14

This release is about Christmas, and three things that were not right. A new Christmas fir,
decorations on every building, opening hours kept to the minute with the blinds and a shutter down
when a building is shut, the small houses on both sides of the mountains, and a street that stays
the same when you come back to it.

• A new Christmas fir. Drawn again from scratch: four tiers with zigzag edges, ten lights on
  their tips, a star on top and three presents at its foot, with snow on its tiers in winter. At
  night its green darkens like the other trees, while its star and lights stay bright. The gallery
  card and the Christmas icon show it too, the icon's star as large as before.

• Decorations on every building. With Christmas lights on, every building has a string of lights
  along its roof and a wreath on its front door, every tower a star at its top, and every small house
  on the mountains three lights; the strings under the windowsills are as they were. They stay lit
  when a shop is shut. The gallery cards show them too, a little larger so that they can be seen on
  a small card. It is the same Christmas lights switch as before: on as the Christmas theme comes,
  off on the others, and it stays off once you turn it off.

• Opening hours to the minute. With a group's opening hours on, a shop that opens at 9:00 opens
  at 9:00: over two seconds its blinds and its shutter go up (after dark, its windows light) and its
  people walk in. In the minute before it closes they walk out, and at closing time it shuts: its
  blinds and its shutter come down and, after dark, its windows go dark. Until now a shop open until
  20:00 began to empty around 19:00. With a fixed hour, a building is open at its opening hour and
  shut at its closing hour. This holds for the towers, the shops and the school; the fire station and
  the police station never close, and the three switches are still off as they come.

• A shut building looks shut, by day too. Outside its hours a blind is down in every window where
  somebody could stand (on a tower, in its entrance hall) and a grey shutter is down over its front
  door, both coming down over two seconds; at night the glass stays dark as before. The gallery card
  draws them too.

• Small houses on both sides of the mountains. They used to stand where chance put them, on many
  mountains all on one side (on Autumn's, all on the left); now a mountain with more than one has them
  on both sides, two or three a mountain at 50 %, as many as before on average. None stands hidden
  behind the mountain next to it any more: where one would be, it takes another place on its own
  mountain, or, when every place there is taken, it is left out. If you had them on below 100 %, you
  will see them move.

• The street stays the same when you come back. The six buildings among the houses now change
  only as the scenery scrolls, a new one coming in from the edge of the screen: back from an app, or
  with the screen on again, you find the same ones. With Scroll speed at 0 % they never change (a
  swipe between home screens shows a little more of the same street). Whenever the wallpaper starts
  again (the phone restarted, the app updated), the street starts from the theme's first buildings.

• Lighter to draw. The falling snow, the stars and every Christmas light are drawn in a lighter
  way, and on our test phone Christmas at night, even with everything on, is drawn in one pass where
  it sometimes took two. They look the same; on our test phone the smallest stars are a little
  dimmer.

• A little less work for your phone at night. On our test phone, against 5.13, the wallpaper uses
  about 5 % less of the processor on an autumn night and on a Christmas night with the small houses on
  and every shop shut, about 8 % less with winter's snow falling, and about the same on an autumn noon
  (1 % more), with about the same memory.

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-v5.14.apk.sha256, or run gh attestation verify PaperScrape-v5.14.apk --repo urgali/paperscrape.