Development blog

[Peter]

Android status update:
Planned codec coverage for Alpha build 1 has been reached:
Working lossy codecs: MP3, MP4/AAC, Vorbis, Opus, Musepack
Working lossless codecs: FLAC, WavPack, ALAC, WAV, AIFF

Working on the user interface now.

[Peter]

Android status update:
Alpha 1 build will be available shortly! Alpha testers, watch your mailboxes.

Readme:
http://mobile.foobar2000.com/forum/s...e&goto=newpost

[Peter]

Alpha 2 for Android has been out for a while, Alpha 3 planned on Friday

Alpha 18 for iOS out, a maintenance update addressing a reported crashbug.

[Peter]

Alpha 3 for Android is available.

[Peter]

Work-in-progress: now tested & working correctly with:

• HTC One Mini2 (formerly: audio glitching)
• HTC One m8 (formerly: audio glitching)
• Asus Fonepad and other Intel Atom based devices (formerly: would lock up on startup)

[Peter]

Alpha 4 for Android is available.

[Peter]

Updates:

• Alpha 5 for Android, with dark theme and playback controls in a Notification entry
• Alpha 19 for iOS, with some recent performance fixes ported over

[Peter]

Updates:

• Alpha 6 for Android
• Alpha 20 for iOS

Changes:

• All: Paused state now much less powerhungry, releases all playback resources, so no reason to ever use explicit "stop" instead
• All: Disabled stereo-to-4channels DSP as it's pointless on mobile devices
• Android: Added pause on headphones unplug
• Android: Added remote control event listening
• Android: Added remote control metadata (for car display panels, smartwatches, etc)
• Android: Added theme picker, can now choose between white/black
• Android: Changed package signing (no longer using a debug package) - app reinstall cycle needed again, hopefully for the last time
• Android: Fixed wrong size of notification picture

[Peter]

Updates:

• Alpha 7 for Android
• Alpha 21 for iOS

Changes:

• All: Improved logic of detecting changed album art for browsing tree items
• All: Fixed wrong album art shown under "Albums" if two albums have the same name
• All: Album artists shown in "Albums"
• All: Fixed a bug causing numbers shown instead of artist/album names in browse tree
• All: Now-playing page visual tweaks
• iOS: Fixed stuck progress page after use of decoding speed test if the test pass completed within a very short period of time
• iOS: Now playing info in lockscreen and airplay receivers
• iOS: Fixed "rename" & "delete" context menu commands for files & folders, they broke a few versions ago
• iOS: Rewritten decoding speed test screen, now usable regardless of screen size & orientation
• iOS: Prettier DSP reordering
• Android: Fixes to remote control event handling, playback controls now accessible in lockscreen
• Android: Album art now propagated along with metadata to remote controls
• Android: Decoding speed test screen tweaks ( up to date with iOS version looks )
• Android: Audio focus handling, we now pause when some other app plays

[Peter]

Updates:

• Alpha 8 for Android
• Alpha 22 for iOS

Changes:

• All: Added long press play/pause to stop
• All: Improved picture handling performance
• All: Improved browse tree performance
• All: Added minimalistic advanced preferences page
• iOS: Improved DSP preferences further
• iOS: Changed [A...] and so on into iOS indexed list
• iOS: Grid view for albums can now be toggled (before it was always enabled on iPad and disabled on others)
• Android: Now runs on 4.0 devices, most of them
• Android: Changed [A...] and so on into fastscroll list with section headers
• Android: Now playing along more nicely with system sounds such as incoming mail beeps