PaperScrape v5.15 — Stable

v5.15

This release is about the update notification, and Santa and the Halloween moon. A new version
now shows a small house at the top of the screen, and the check for it runs with the screen off and
with another wallpaper too. Santa's sleigh is drawn again from scratch, and on Halloween the moon is
the moon again, with a carved face lit from inside.

• An update notification you can see. When a newer release is out, a small house with an arrow
  appears at the top of the screen, and the notification sits among the normal ones in the shade and
  on the lock screen. Still no sound, no vibration and no pop-up, and still one notification a
  version; a tap opens Update available, as before.

• The check runs with the screen off. With both Check for updates when I open PaperScrape and
  Notify me about new versions on (both are off as the app comes), Android's own scheduler now checks
  about every three hours whenever there is a network, with the screen off and with another wallpaper
  too. Until now the check ran only while PaperScrape was your wallpaper and on screen, so a release
  could wait hours for you to look at your phone. Turning the two switches on checks at once. While
  PaperScrape's notifications are turned off in Android's settings, the check with the screen off does
  not run; opening the settings still checks. Android chooses the exact moment, and to save battery it
  may make a check wait longer: with the phone asleep for a long time two checks can come up to about
  six hours apart, and for an app it thinks you rarely use, up to a day.

• When GitHub says "not now". GitHub answers 60 requests an hour from each internet address
  without an account, shared by every device behind it. When it turns PaperScrape away, the automatic
  check now waits until the time GitHub gives and then tries once more, instead of asking again every
  few minutes; the Check for updates button, which asks anyway, tells you until when.

• Santa, drawn again. A red sleigh with a raised side, Santa sitting in it and waving, two plump
  reindeer with Rudolph in front and his red nose, and gifts dropping from the presents behind Santa.
  It is now sized against the people in the street, the same on every phone: Santa a little taller
  than a grown-up walking by. As before, it is not darkened at night, and it flies across about once
  a minute; the line under Santa now says so. The Christmas gallery card shows the new sleigh, as
  small as before.

• The Halloween moon is the moon again. In your theme's moon colour, with its craters and its
  glow, and a jack-o'-lantern's face carved into it and lit from inside in a warm yellow. It replaces
  the orange pumpkin that stood in for the moon. The line under Halloween now names everything the
  switch does: the carved moon, bare branches on the leafy trees, withered palms, and a carved face on
  every pumpkin.

• Two small fixes. The Check for updates button now says Checking... while it asks GitHub, and a
  second tap no longer sends another request. With Moon turned off, a theme's gallery card no longer
  shows a moon.

• A hidden drawing error fixed. In some cases the wallpaper kept an invisible copy of itself
  trying to draw ten times a second, which cost processor time (about 4 % of one core on our test
  phone). It no longer does. Nothing on screen changes.

• About the same work for your phone. On our test phone the wallpaper uses about the same share of
  the processor as 5.14, from about 0.6 % less to 1.5 % more, on an autumn noon and night, a winter
  night with snow falling, a Christmas night with everything on (Santa's sleigh included) and a
  Halloween night, with about the same memory.

If you are updating from 5.14:

• The update notification has a new entry in Android's notification settings, still called Update
  available, and the old one is removed (Android may say "1 category deleted"). If you had turned
  PaperScrape's update notifications off, they stay off.
• If both switches were on and PaperScrape is your wallpaper, the checks with the screen off start
  as soon as the update is installed. If you use another wallpaper, they start the first time you
  open PaperScrape's settings after the update.
• PaperScrape now asks Android to keep its check scheduled when you restart your phone. Android
  grants this without asking; PaperScrape adds nothing of its own to the phone's start: Android's
  scheduler keeps the check and runs it when its time comes. Some phones stop apps on their own, after
  a restart or when an app has been idle for a while: on those the checks stop until PaperScrape runs
  again: opening its settings is enough.
• Each check leaves one line in the phone's own log: the outcome, GitHub's answer code and how many
  requests GitHub still allows. Nothing about you or your phone is in it.
• With Santa on you see the new sleigh, and with Halloween on the new moon.

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-v5.15.apk.sha256, or run gh attestation verify PaperScrape-v5.15.apk --repo urgali/paperscrape.