v2.6.1 to v3.0

Highlights

  • User interface has been rebuilt from scratch
    • Dark/bright mode, and automatic switching between them
    • Now in line with the new Material v3 UI guidelines
    • Support gestures in many places
    • Smooth animations
    • Better landscape layout
    • Moved all important information to a widgets area
    • No more strange actions to get to rarely used actions (such as "tripple-tap speed to start bug report")
    • "Arrows" mode is deprecated, now "map" is the only available UI mode
  • Updates to alerts notification
    • New "Alerts notifications" preferences menu where all notifications can be configured from one place
    • Every alert can have a badge now, badges are displayed on top of the map
    • Updated maps labels, added alert severity there
    • Support for screen flasher for notifying about alerts
    • Support for using camera flash light for notifying about alerts
    • Option to configure phone vibration as a mean of alerts notification
    • More flexibility in using system notifications for alerts
    • Every alert has a severity level now, including hazards and cameras
    • Simplified some notifications configuration
  • Updates to radar detectors integration
    • Added integration with Uniden R4 and Uniden R8
    • Various improvements for DS1 integration
    • Improvements to auto-lockouts model
  • New weather radar data source
    • Added RainViewer weather radar overlay
    • Deprecated the MRMS radar model due to low stability and high resources consumption
  • Various improvements
    • Optimized the first launch experience
    • Voice commands are now disabled by default for smoother first run (no microphone permission request)
    • Background location permission is no longer needed, cleaned out a lot of compliance BS thanks to this change
  • Updates to the support policy
    • Application should start on any phone running at least Android 5.0
    • There is a full support for Android versions at least 5 years old. All features are working properly as long as they are supported by the system.
    • There is a limited support for older Android versions. Application should start and be able to display alerts at least somehow. Some features may not work correctly, or not work at all (e.g., camera flashlight notification doesn't work on older phones).

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