PaperScrape v5.16 — Stable

v5.16

This release is about Halloween, with a switch for each thing, and Christmas lights in three. The
Halloween theme gets a Headless Horseman in the sky, scarecrows, decorations on the houses and the
shops, a moon that laughs, blood rain and a night that lasts all day, each with its own switch.

• Halloween, a switch for each thing. The Halloween page now has a switch for each thing it can
  show: Halloween itself (the carved moon, bare branches on the leafy trees, withered palms and a
  carved face on every pumpkin, as before), Laughing moon, Night sky by day, Horror sky, Halloween
  decorations, Pumpkins, Scarecrows (with how many), Headless Horseman and Blood rain. The Halloween
  theme as it comes has every new one on; every other theme has them off, and you can turn them on
  in any theme.

• The Headless Horseman. About once a minute a headless rider on a black horse gallops across the
  sky, his carved pumpkin held up high, and pumpkins on fire fall from him and go out on the pavement.
  He is about as tall as Santa. With Santa on in the same theme, the two are never in the sky
  together: the Horseman waits for the sky to be his, so he comes by a little less often.

• Scarecrows. Scarecrows with a pointed hat, old clothes and a carved pumpkin for a head, lit at
  night, stand where the snowmen stand; in the Halloween theme at about half of those places. Where a
  snowman stands too, the scarecrow stands beside it.

• Halloween decorations. Cobwebs at the ends of the roofs, purple bats swinging under them and a
  jack-o'-lantern by every front door, its candle lit at night, on the houses and the three shops,
  open or shut.

• The moon laughs. About once a minute the Halloween moon throws its face open and laughs for
  two seconds, shaking with it.

• Night sky by day. With it on, the Halloween theme is night at every hour: night colours, lit
  windows, and the carved moon where the sun would be. The shops keep their real opening hours. While
  it is on, Show Sun and Show Rainbow are greyed, and so is Show Birds while the birds are on without
  Night Birds; their lines say why. It needs Halloween and Show Moon on.

• Blood rain. When it rains, the rain is red and its drops twice as thick. Your own rain colours
  are kept and come back when it is off; snow stays snow.

• Christmas lights in three. The one switch is now three: Lights on the buildings (the bulbs on
  the roofs and under the sills, a wreath on every door, a star on every tower, and the distant
  houses' bulbs), Lights on the trees (the blinking lights on the leafy trees and the palms) and
  Christmas firs (one tree in three a fir with its lights, a star and presents). With Halloween on,
  the leafy trees are bare and carry no lights.

• A decoration switch with nothing to decorate is greyed. With the trees off, Lights on the
  trees and Christmas firs are off and greyed; with the houses and the buildings off, so are the
  Halloween decorations, and Lights on the buildings too while no house stands on the mountains
  either. Each line says what to turn back on, and your choice comes back by itself when you do.

• Halloween or Christmas decorations, not both. In a theme, the Halloween decorations and the
  Christmas ones are never on together: whichever side is turned on first wins, and the other side's
  switches are greyed with a line that says which decorations are on and where to turn them off.

• The gallery card shows the new things. The Halloween card shows the Horseman, small, a
  scarecrow and the decorations.

• The work for your phone. On our test phone the wallpaper uses about the same share of the
  processor as 5.15 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 in heavy rain, from about 0.9 %
  less to 1 % more, with about the same memory. The Halloween theme as it comes uses a little more for
  its new things: about 3.5 % more at night, and about 6 % more at noon, where it is now night too.

If you are updating from 5.15:

• If you had Christmas lights on, you find all three of the new Christmas switches on, in every
  theme where you had it.
• In the Halloween theme every new Halloween switch is on, Night sky by day included: at noon it is
  night. In every other theme the new things are off. A copy of the Halloween theme you saved under its
  own name in 5.15 starts with them off; turn them on from its Halloween page.
• Wherever you had Christmas lights on, the three Christmas switches stay on and the Halloween
  decorations start off, greyed until you turn all three off; in the Halloween theme too.

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-v5.16.apk.sha256, or run gh attestation verify PaperScrape-v5.16.apk --repo urgali/paperscrape.