PaperScrape v5.7 — Stable

v5.7

The theme gallery now shows each theme's real street, the settings say what they do, and the
app can tell you when a new version is out. Most of this release is repairs: things that were
drawn in the wrong place, menus that did one thing and said another, and a few details of the
scene that had slipped.

• Every gallery card has been redrawn to match the wallpaper. Each card is a small picture of
  that theme's own street, and until now it was arranged for looks rather than taken from the
  scene: the school, which every theme builds, was on no card; the bar hid behind a house; the
  Beach card left out its whole town; boats and dolphins stood on dry land. Now every card shows
  all six kinds of building in the order they stand on the street, school included, with the fire
  engine on the road, gulls in the sky by day, and mountains rounded the way the wallpaper draws
  them instead of pointed. The boats and dolphins sit in the water. A card still shows nothing its
  theme does not have, and now nothing the street is built from is missing from it, apart from the
  garden parasols, which have no picture of their own to put on a card.

• Santa's sleigh is on the Christmas card, as it is in the Christmas sky.

• The settings menus say what they do.

  • "Reset this theme's scene to defaults" now asks before it acts, and tells you that it also
    clears that theme's seasonal decorations — which it always did, without saying so. Your other
    themes are never touched.
  • "Umbrellas" is now called "Parasols", because that is what it controls: the garden parasols.
    The umbrellas people open in the rain follow the weather and have no switch, and the screen
    now says so.
  • With the lake switched off, the boat and dolphin controls are greyed out instead of looking
    active while doing nothing. What you had set is kept for when the lake comes back.
  • The "Lake" row shows whether the lake is on, like the rows around it.
  • "Weather effects", opened from Weather & time, now takes you back to Weather & time.
  • Each seasonal decoration's on/off switch was shown twice, on the season's screen and again
    inside its options. It is now on the season's screen only.

• A notification when a new version is out — only if you want one. In Advanced & about there
  is a new switch, "Notify me about new versions", under "Check for updates automatically"; both
  are off unless you turn them on. With both on, PaperScrape looks for a new release at most once a
  day, while it is your wallpaper and on screen, and if it finds one it puts a quiet notification
  in the shade: no sound, no pop-up. Tapping it opens the same "Update available" window as before,
  and nothing is downloaded until you choose to. On Android 13 and later your phone asks for
  permission when you turn the new switch on. In that window, "Next app launch" is now called
  "Not now", which is what it does.

• Christmas has its spire back. Since v5.6 the Christmas skyline showed only domed towers; the
  tower with the spire stands again, and it is the only building added. A Christmas theme you saved
  yourself, or one whose building density you have changed, keeps the skyline it has.

• Themes you saved before v5.6 now have a school. The school is added to the street, between
  the restaurant and the bar; every house, tower, tree and shop you saved stays exactly where it
  was. (A theme file shared from an older version and imported now is left as it was shared.)

• The sky no longer jumps when live weather goes out of date. If Live Weather cannot get a new
  reading for three hours, the scene goes back to the theme's own sky. The clouds used to change in
  a single frame when that happened; now they drift there over a few seconds — longer for a bigger
  change, about fifteen for a clear sky clouding over — and the next reading that does arrive drifts
  in too. Rain and storms still start and stop at once, just as they do whenever the forecast
  changes.

• Your two colours now come out half and half. Houses, buildings, trees and cars each wear
  Color 1 or Color 2 of their category at random, as the menu promises — but the split was lopsided:
  about one object in three wore Color 1, and among cars fewer than one in five. It is now even. You
  will see some objects on your street wearing your other colour; they are the same objects, in the
  same places, in the colours you chose.

• Behind the scenes, some housekeeping for the people who maintain the app. None of it changes
  what you see.

Nothing you have set has changed: your themes, colours and sliders are as you left them, and your
saved themes gain a school. The one new setting is the notification switch, and it starts off.

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-v5.7.apk.sha256, or run gh attestation verify PaperScrape-v5.7.apk --repo urgali/paperscrape.