Changelog

Better

• Battery Life — GPS location requests now register cancellation tokens; the GPS radio shuts down immediately if you close a tool before a fix is found.
• Memory Efficiency — The camera color picker now reuses its pixel buffer instead of re-allocating 30 times a second, reducing GC pressure and battery heat.
• UI Fluidity — Moved radio history and favorites JSON processing to background I/O threads to ensure the UI remains responsive during app startup.
• Offline Reliability — The Rain tool now hydrates its UI from the last known snapshot immediately upon opening, ensuring a useful display even without an active data connection.
• Android 16 — Now built against API level 36, which Google Play requires.

Better

• Centralized network connection pooling across all features (UV, Rain, Rates, Radio, Food, Tides) to share active sockets, saving up to 500ms in load times on mobile connections.
• Unified serialization configurations to reduce startup memory allocations and initial classloading times.

Better

• The UV widget can be resized to any cell from 1×1 up, and picks a layout to match: a single tile shows the index, the band and your time to burn; a wide strip puts them on one line; two cells square and up keep the full card.
• The exchange rates converter now fits a 2×3 tile, so the keypad no longer needs a large widget.
• Labels shorten to a shorter word rather than an ellipsis — “Very high” becomes “V.high”, not “Very h…”.

Fixed

• The UV number was clipped on short widgets and could render as “5.” on narrow ones. Sizes are now worked out from the cell rather than fixed.

New

• Tides — high and low water for any coast, today and the days ahead, with a curve showing where the water is now. Inland it finds the nearest tidal water and tells you how far away it is.
• Focus timer widget — the countdown ticks live on the home screen, with start, pause and reset.
• Exchange rates widget — the rate for your pair at a small size; make it bigger and it becomes a converter with a keypad.

Better

• The UV widget now shows the reading for this minute rather than the one on the hour, so it matches the app instead of reading high on a falling afternoon.
• Time to sunburn is on the UV widget, under the index.
• Tide times come from harmonic predictions where a station is available — checked against each port’s own authority, they landed within a minute at San Francisco and four at Angra do Heroísmo.

Fixed

• Rain and UV widget text no longer clips at small sizes.

New

• Focus timer and exchange rates widgets.
• Time to sunburn on the UV widget.

New

• Home screen widgets for UV index and Rain.
• Long-press the app icon for shortcuts to your four most-used tools.
• Drag tools — and radio favourites — into your own order.
• Optional morning UV brief, and a heads-up when rain is coming.

Better

• Rain now works worldwide, not only the Netherlands.
• Secondary text is darker and easier to read.
• Radio and Rain connect straight to their sources instead of through a proxy.

Fixed

• Cut-off close button on the About sheet.

Over those releases

• The first eight tools: UV index, Rain, Radio, Time zones, Focus timer, Exchange rates, Food scanner and Colour picker.
• Background radio playback with lock-screen controls and casting.
• Offline caching, so every tool opens with its last reading.
• Light and dark themes, and the shared design the app still uses.