PaperScrape v5.9 — Stable

v5.9

This release puts right what was still wrong after v5.8. The gallery cards now show the night
the way the wallpaper does, a few things that did not work now do, and the wallpaper moves a little
more smoothly at night.

• The night cards look like the wallpaper at night. On the Halloween and New Year's Eve cards,
  on the preview at the top of the settings when it shows one of them, and on the World & scene
  preview when you switch it to Night, the trees, cars, snowmen, gifts, penguins, rabbits, eggs and
  pumpkins used to keep their daytime colours, and the palms their daytime light. They now darken as
  the wallpaper's do, and the rain and snow on those cards fall in the wallpaper's night colours.
  The pumpkins on the Halloween card now have their carved faces, as on the wallpaper, and with
  opening hours turned on the shops' and towers' windows go dark after closing time, as they do on
  the wallpaper. The Sunset card, which shows seven in the evening, is a little darker too, as the
  wallpaper is at that hour.

• The rain shows on every card. With rain turned on, the drops on the Big City, Beach and
  Sunset cards, and on New Year's Eve's in World & scene by day, were nearly the colour of the sky
  and could hardly be seen. They now stand out as they do on the wallpaper.

• The card's sun is the wallpaper's sun. With a Sun Color of your own, the card could show a
  dark sun the wallpaper never draws. It now shows the sun as the wallpaper does; your colour still
  tints the glow around it on the wallpaper.

• The preview at the top of the settings shows the whole scene, road, cars and pavement
  included, the same shape as the gallery cards. It is a little taller than before.

• "Rename" works. Renaming a saved theme now changes the name you see everywhere, straight away.
  Themes you renamed with an older version show the name you gave them last.

• "Automatic theme by date" tells the truth about gaps. If your holiday calendar leaves days that
  no season covers, the line under the switch now says how many, and that on those days you see the
  theme you picked yourself unless a holiday falls on them.

• A theme file from an old version gets its school. Importing a theme exported by v5.5 or
  earlier now adds the school, in the same place saved themes got theirs.

• Notifications on Android 13 and later. If you switch off PaperScrape's notifications in your
  phone's settings, the app now says so under "Notify me about new versions" instead of still
  promising an alert. The switch in the app stays on: it is your choice inside the app, and the line
  tells you the phone has turned notifications off.

• Smoother at night. On our test phone, with the stars out, about one picture in seven used to
  reach the screen a moment late; now it is about one in eleven, and without the stars fewer still.
  The phone does a little less work for it. Each picture now reaches the screen a sixtieth of a
  second later, which you cannot notice on a wallpaper.

• A dolphin no longer jumps in front of a nearer wave. In a thunderstorm on Beach and Spring, a
  leaping dolphin was sometimes drawn over a wave, or the sail of a boat, that was closer to you.

• Nothing is copied to a new phone any more. Before, on some brands of phone, your settings,
  saved themes, weather keys and last location were copied to a new phone by Android, and on others
  nothing was. Now nothing is, on any phone. To move PaperScrape to a new phone, use the app's own
  backup file, in Advanced & about.

• Safer saved themes. If one of your saved themes ever could not be read, every other one used
  to disappear from the Themes screen and your changes were lost. Now only that one is set aside,
  and it comes back by itself if a later version can read it. No version so far writes such a
  theme: this is a safeguard.

• Behind the scenes, housekeeping for the people who maintain the app: the checks that guard the
  code look in the right places, the compiler reports no warnings, and the project's notes are in
  English throughout.

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-v5.9.apk.sha256, or run gh attestation verify PaperScrape-v5.9.apk --repo urgali/paperscrape.