Lunescope

• Compliance updates

• Fix crash in Map view when offline

• Support new Android permissions & restrictions
• Discontinue support for Android 5

• More bug fixes

• Fix a couple of notification bugs
• Fix crash in eclipse display

• Add Google-mandated "Prominent Disclosure" dialog when requesting location permission on Android 10+
• Add a little margin around the moon graphic on the ongoing notification
• Move ads in landscape orientation to left side of bottom-nav bar (Free only)
• Fix bug: changing the notification sound caused the app to crash
• Fix bug some widget tap action options not working

• Introduce free (with ads) version
• Transparent title bar (best in landscape!)
• Astronomer options
• Expanded notifications
• Support Android 11’s background location permission
• Various icon tweaks
• Decrease jank in libration rendering
• Updates to map feature database
• Extend the widget layout setting
• Improve “My Location” screen
• Discontinue support for Android 4
• Maintain moon tilt when panning away from Earth
• Add haptic feedback when swiping main moon view between days (on supported devices)
• Numerous bug fixes & smaller improvements

• Plug mysterious new memory leak in live wallpaper

• Make eclipse notification swipeable
• Remove Apollo 11 promo

• Add lunar landing sites
• Overhaul in-app navigation
• A whole new Map mode
• Add Moon Phase tile to Wear OS app

• Plug memory leak in live wallpaper
• Fix a few rare crashes

• Add libration to main moon display (Android 5+)
• Add Google Play license check (n/a on other app stores)
• Improve perspective in main moon view
• Improve background starfield
• Fix bug in image sharing
• Fix bug in widget rendering near full moon
• Fix issue: wrong moon rise/set times sometimes shown
• Various other bug fixes and improvements

• Fix bug with rise/set time display

• Add an option for None to the wallpaper motion settings
• Add some new widget options
• Add a few more sun fields to Data view
• Increase brightness of main moon image, especially new new moon
• Improve Map labels:
  • Remove “Crater” prefix from crater name labels
  • Improve text clarity (especially at high latitudes and zoom levels)
  • Follow standard satellite crater naming convention
• Improve title formatting on Data View
• Improve astronomical calculations
• Improve text shown during lunar eclipse
• Improve lunar eclipse rendering
• Improve cache management
• Make log sending more reliable
• Reduce size of app
• Fix bug: during eclipse, deleting widget doesn’t stop imagery update notifications
• Fix various rare crash bugs
• End support for Android 4.0 - 4.0.2 (API 14)

• Improve eclipse notification layout on Android 7+
• Fix crash in eclipse notification if no location set
• Improve widget layout on Huawei's stock Android 8 launcher

• Fix crash on eclipse list in German
• Update Portuguese and French translations

• Add Lunar Eclipse list and visualizations
• Add ongoing eclipse notification
• Improve widget rendering
• Fix crash in live wallpaper on some devices
• Various other minor improvements and bug fixes

• Fix bug: calendar not showing eclipses for some locales
• Fix bug: widgets not formatting correctly on some home screens (notably Huawei’s)
• Fix bug: live wallpaper using excessive battery on some devices
• Fix a few rare crash and ANR bugs

• New name: Lunescope! It's more than just moon phases.
• Add lunar Map (beta)
• Add new widget options
• Add setting for distance units
• Add launcher shortcuts (Android 7.1+)
• Add release notes to About screen
• Improve compatibility with ChromeOS
• Improve widget formatting
• Fix notification settings on Android 9
• Fix bug with sending log on some devices
• Remove widget-graphics notification for pre-Oreo devices
• Lots of smaller improvements all around the app

Phones & tablets:

• New phase notification icons
• New notification layout (Android 7+)
• New Calendar icon (in main nav menu)
• Update the Permissions screen
• Fix a few crashes on specific configurations
• Remove adaptive widget layouts from Android 4.1 and 4.2

Wear OS:

• New phase notification icons
• Improve app icon
• Fix bug with phase complication icon

• New app icon
• New navigation menu
• Make widget layout adaptive
• Brighten moon image for Maximum Realism
• Improve behavior when touch on moon ends
• Improve Android 8 notification support
• Improve lunar eclipse calculations
• Support wallpaper colors API (Android 8.1)
• Adjust shadow gradient on 2D graphics
• Add promo link to TerraTime
• Fix bug: notification showing repeatedly on some devices
• Various other bug fixes and enhancements

All devices:

• Add Supermoons, Blue Moons and Black Moons
• Add lunar eclipse display (beta)

Phones & tablets:

• Add runtime permissions support
• Add altitude to zenith/nadir fields (user request)
• Add date for sun rise/set times that aren’t today
• Add a couple of items to About screen
• Overhaul date/time dialog
• Improve ChromeOS support
• Improve notifications, especially on Android 7+
• Improve Android 8+ split-screen support
• Performance tuning
• Fix some issues with widget sizing on newer devices
• Fix bug: certain rare devices will only load Cheese Mode
• Many other bug fixes
• Discontinue support for Android 2 and 3

Android Wear:

• Overhaul watch face: add Analog style, more complications
• Improve complications provided to other faces
• Fix some localization issues
• Unbundle APK from handheld app
• Discontinue support for Wear 1.x

Android Wear 2 only

• Fix bug in phase complication

Android Wear 2 only

• Update compatibility with final Wear 2.0 release
• Improve complication support in own watch face
• Add large image complication (for use in other watch faces)

Android Wear 2 only

• Support watch face complications

• Adjust notification icons to better fit Material guidelines
• Improve placename lookup
• Fix bug: app crash after tap on some rows in About screen
• Fix some formatting issues in the time/date pickers
• Fix some bugs related to pre-2000 dates

• Fix layout issues in Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese

• Fix layout issues on some device/language combinations
• Fix text color bug on widget
• Fix some rare crash bugs

• Redesigned UI, incorporating elements of Material Design, plus many other small enhancements
• Add Android Wear watch face
• Add phase date/time to expanded notification view (Android 4.1+)
• Performance enhancements
• Fix compatibility issues with Android 5 (Lollipop), and Nexus 9 specifically
• Fix notification crash bug
• Discontinue support for Android 2.1, 2.2, and LG Real3D

• Fix bug: notifications not working reliably on Android 4.4
• Add moon image to notification (Android 4.1+)
• Rename transit/antitransit (on Data page) to zenith/nadir
• Update a few translations
• Fix bug: Cheese mode "stuck" on Apr 1
• Fix bug: tapping date of major phase on calendar displaying the wrong time

• Fix bug: crash when opening Calendar with no location set
• Fix bug: live wallpaper too bright after turning off Max Realism (Android 2 only)

• Bring back Stars option on live wallpaper
• Fix bug: widget crashes launcher on some Android 4.4 handsets
• Fix bug: after exiting and re-entering app, touch response is decreased
• Fix bug: change of location not getting picked up immediately by Calendar or live wallpaper
• Fix bug: in main activity, can't Back out of app while moon is spinning

• Improve quality of imagery throughout the app
• Change Dynamic surface shadows option to Maximum realism, and apply to all imagery (widgets, calendar, etc.)
• Improve animation (on larger-screen devices)
• Improve appearance of text on widget
• Improve moon touchscreen rotation
• Add Russian and Portuguese language support
• Add timezone to rise/set display on Data screen, and on main screen when location set manually
• Add setting for default home panel to live wallpaper
• Add settings option for non-persistent notifications
• Add progress bar to dialog when downloading moon imagery
• Reduce lag when closing Settings window
• Fix sizing problem with 1x1 widget on certain Android 4.0 phones
• Fix issue in applying location updates
• Numerous other bug fixes throughout app

• Add split-screen layout in landscape for Calendar/Data on large phones
• Redesign Date/Time dialog to better accommodate different screen sizes
• Remove background from text on widget
• Improve load time for main activity's initial layout on tablets
• Improve Data page icons (Android 3+)
• Update server domain for online functionality
• Disable live wallpaper rotate & slide options for incompatible home screens
• Expand debug logging (when enabled in About dialog)
• Fix some widget shadow artifacts at xxhdpi
• Fix bug: Email Dev function used subject line of "PolyClock query"
• Fix rare crash in live wallpaper

• Increase some font sizes on medium-size tablets
• Improve clarity of widgets on Nook HD devices
• Fix bug: Data pane not visible on tablets when location not set
• Send log as an attachment rather than embedded in email (Android 4.1+)

• Bring various screens up to date with Holo design style
• Move About out of Settings (per Android design recommendations)
• Add settings item for dawn/dusk solar altitude
• Reorganize Settings screen
• Reduce minimum size of resizable widget from 2x2 to 2x1 (Android 3.1 through 4.0)
• Enable moon info when widget is 2x1 (Android 3.1+)
• Automatically dismiss phase notifications after 48 hours
• Distinguish between geocoding failure and network not connected (Nook only)
• Make widgets work on Nook HD devices
• Fix location lookup problem on non-Google devices
• Fix bug: hitting Cancel on the no-location dialog ignores the "don't remind me again" checkbox
• Fix bug on Nova Launcher: the LWP is not centered correctly after device orientation change
• Discontinue support for original Galaxy Tab 7

• Enlarge main window font on HDPI tablets
• Remove analytics
• Add the package name of the device's launcher (home screen) to the About screen
• Fix bug: "i" button doesn't display on widget on some home screens (HTC, Motorola, some third-party - Android 4+)
• Fix bug: Launcher icon is labeled as "это приложение" when device language is set to Russian
• Fix crash on Data page for dates outside 2009-2016
• Fix bug: location on Data page occasionally displaying "null"
• Fix bug: Send log email has incorrect subject
• Fix bug: when view rotated away from Earth (with two-finger drag), the Data pane on tablets doesn't update

• Support Android 4.2, including lock screen widget
• Support Kindle Fire HD and Nook HD devices
• Add send-log functionality to About screen (Android 4.1+)
• Add XXHDPI launcher icon (for Nexus 10)
• Fix crash errors caused by other apps (Zinio, Weatherbug Elite, etc.)
• Fix rare "double transit" bug in Data page

• Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) compatibility
• Improve two-finger drag
• Tweak widget text color for Android 4

• Fix bug: crash after closing Location screen

• Support Real3D on LG Optimus 3D devices
• Translate into Spanish
• Update other translations
• Add wallpaper settings to main settings activity
• Add device & app data to the support email template
• Add dawn & dusk to Data page
• Make text in Data fields selectable by long-press (Android 3.0+)
• Make resizable widget's "i" button easier to hit
• Improve dialog buttons for some Android versions
• Improve notification icons for Android 2.3+, Kindle Fire
• Improve actionbar icons on 2.x
• Improve Calendar icon for Android 3.1+
• Improve resizable widget graphics on Android 3.1+
• Remove NETWORK STATE permission
• Tweak lighting parameters, particularly Earthlight near new moon
• Fix bug: XL widget not working on Galaxy Note (and similar devices)
• Fix bug: changing date/time by keyboard not taking effect if OK immediately pressed
• Discontinue support for Android 1.x

• BlackBerry PlayBook release

• Improve manual location entry
  • Replace negative coordinates with hemisphere toggle
  • Work around device-specific bug: negative & decimal entry doesn't work on Kindle Fire
  • General improvements to data consistency
• Improve Calendar
  • Tweak image quality
  • Adjust angle of new/full/quarter moon images
  • Fix bug with reliability of swipe gestures
• Add About page to Settings
• Fix bug: small widget clipped on Android 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
• Fix waxing/waning bug of 8 Jan 2012

• Add day-of-week to selected date displays
• Enable rise/set data alongside Calendar on tablets
• Increase size of (i) hit target on widgets
• Improvements for Android 3.1+ (Honeycomb & Ice Cream Sandwich)
  • Update ActionBar icons
  • Split out small (1x1) widget as separate option
  • Tweak Calendar size on handsets
  • Improve color matching
• Improve Kindle Fire compatibility
  • Disable swipe gestures on Calendar
  • Hide wallpaper setting
  • Improve split-screen layout
• Fix bug: calendar reverting to current month after orientation change on tablets
• Fix bug: quickly changing dates on Data page would sometimes end on wrong one
• Fix bug: crash when selecting Live Wallpaper on lower-spec devices
• Various bug fixes & enhancements surrounding Cheese Mode

• Add Share function
• Change the ActionBar to a dark background
• Add "Don't ask me again" checkbox to location warning dialog
• Add support for vertical offsets in Honeycomb live wallpaper
• Support Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
• Support Kindle Fire
• Improve support for XHDPI
• Fix bug: excessive CPU usage (and battery drain) after opening Data view

• Add an option to completely disable info on widgets
• Add hint messages for multitouch and Back button
• Add support for resizable widgets (Honeycomb 3.1+)
• Fix bug: changes in time/date dialog not taking effect
• Fix bug: tapping current date in Calendar not working on non-tablet devices
• Fix crash on orientation change during imagery download

• Reduce memory footprint of live wallpaper
• Fix crash in live wallpaper when location unavailable
• Fix German translation of "ago"

• Add rotation of moon via multitouch drag (Android 2.0+ only)
• Add text option to M, L, and XL widgets
• Replace title with action bar
• Optimize layout for tablets
• Add option for dynamic surface shadows (Android 2.2+ only)
• Add apogee, perigee, antitransit, and rise/set info to Data pane
• Add support for non-touchscreen devices
• Add day-of-week to notification
• Improve widget & legacy wallpaper imagery
• Add warning about widget/SD incompatibility
• Improve widget icons for Honeycomb
• Add changelog dialog
• Add German language support
• Numerous minor improvements & bug fixes

• Fix text field display bug in landscape on Android 2.2 & 2.3 devices

• Improve touch behavior of main screen
• Hide stars behind text fields
• Improve layout of Data screen
• Fix bug: live wallpaper not working without location
• Fix bug: widgets had slight transparency on some OS versions

• Initial NOOK Color™ release

• Fix scrolling problem on Data screen

• Fix Calendar rendering issues on some devices

• Improve widget graphics
• Fix bug: Cheese Mode changes sometimes not getting applied
• Fix bug: Calendar month begin/end misaligned

• Add Korean language support
• Improve menu icon for Date/Time
• Fix bug: force close from legacy "live" wallpaper

• Support installation to SD card
• Add cheese mode
• Fix bug: Hour field blank in Date/Time dialog after orientation change

• Fix bug: Background blank on XHDPI devices (such as IS03)

• Add Japanese language support
• Fix bug: Back button not working after changing phase on Android 2.3
• Improve light/dark border

• Fix bug: white background on QVGA devices
• Improve tablet support
• Change notification to show real date (was yesterday/today/tomorrow)

• Add French language support
• Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) support
• Fix bug: unable to set date before 1970
• Remove WAKE_LOCK privilege

• Fix bug: next/prev phase times occasionally showing >1M days away
• Add option for real moon images on Calendar

• Use real moon images on Calendar
• SonyEricsson LiveView™ support
• New widget icons
• Better formatting on some tablets
• Fix bug in date dialog on orientation change
• Fix bug: Transit occasionally listed twice (in Data)

• Fix occasional FC error when opening Settings or Location

• Tweak next/prev full/new periods which span DST change
• Improve behavior of manual lat/lon/placename settings
• Fix bug in Moon Age display on Data page
• Fix rare notification bug which could cause battery drain

• Add warning message when upgrading on 1.5 handsets

• Fix "force close" error after upgrade on 1.5 devices
• Fix occasional "app not responding" errors
• Fix formatting of live wallpaper's Rotate warning message
• Make license check more tolerant of offline use

• Improve appearance of widgets
• Add Transits to Data
• Fix bug: sunrise not showing on Data activity under 1.5
• Improve license behavior of widgets & wallpaper
• Add warning message to live wallpaper's Rotate option
• Fix bug: live wallpaper could occasionally get "stuck" rotated, even after Rotate option is turned off

• Fix license bug on Galaxy S

• Add Data activity
• Add license verification

• Decrease live wallpaper lag
• Remove "Pro" from live wallpaper name
• Improve calendar next/prev-month behavior
• Add option to turn off stars in wallpaper
• Disable wallpaper on Garminfone
• Catch more out-of-memory errors

• Fix crash on Refresh in Android 2.2

• Fix blank moon on some Android 2.1 devices

• Support Xperia X10
• Reduce APK size
• Handle corrupt database files
• Fix excessive battery usage bug in notifications

• Add hint to calendar
• Bring back "Go to Date" function
• Improve persistence of notification
• Fix bug: time zone changes not immediately reflected in app

• Fix live wallpaper slide option
• Add Flurry analytics to Settings & Calendar activities
• Disable Flurry logging

• Fix live wallpaper on 1st-gen Android 2.1 devices (currently Eris & Hero)
• Add basic Flurry analytics

• Improve orientation changes of live wallpaper on Droid
• Add uninstall message on upgrade from Lite

• Add calendar
• Add notifications
• Add description to live wallpaper
• Improve load time of main activity
• Compatibility with Android 2.2
• Improve appearance of stars in background

• Bug fix: full & new moon times showing GMT rather than local time zone

• Add options for side-screen home screen movement in live wallpaper

• Bug fix: legacy wallpaper, XL widget crashing on WVGA
• Improve first-load speed of widgets & legacy wallpaper

• Bug fix: moon not drawing after device wakes from sleep
• Improve handling of old/new live wallpapers

• Fix crash on Android 1.5

• Add true Live Wallpaper for Android 2.1
• Improve graphics on homescreen features
• Numerous minor bug fixes and enhancements

• First public release