What's New?

So What’s New?

V3.11.2

Framework and library updates

V3.11.1

Minor bug fixes

V3.11.0

New feature:

• Individual comments can now be translated.

V3.10.8

Improvements:

• Tags can be up to 60 characters in length. Note that tag text does not wrap and can be truncated.

V3.10.7

Bug fix:

• Fixed moving multiple linked items when using grid view

V3.10.6

Improvements

• New and renamed  categories for public collections

V3.10.5

Bug fixes:

• Grid view correctly handles linked items

• Global search should not show selection actions for items the user is not authorised to change

V3.10.4

Improvements:

• Create linked items from the search view

V3.10.3

Bug fix:

• App crash parsing image metadata on Android

V3.10.1

Improvements

• Custom field re-ordering  is now initiated only from the drag handle making it less susceptible accidental drags

Bug fix

• Custom field date formatting was broken. It should now respect the date field modifiers

V3.10.0

New Features

• Items can be copied as "Linked Items". This allows you to create a duplicate item that tracks the original, but can be placed anywhere in your collection. When the original is changed, so are all the linked items. Note that this feature requires a subscription

• Share PDF option in search that includes the images. Limited to 90 items as it's very memory intensive

• Share HTML option in search that creates a HTML view of all the items in the search. This could be used to generate a PDF on a desktop computer

V3.9.1

New Features

• Add Dutch language

V3.8.15

Improvements

• When editing an item that is uploading images in the background, a warning message is displayed as there is the possibility of item corruption

Bug fix

• The file picker could crash on older Android devices

V3.8.14

Bug fix

• Fix missing Collection Information menu option

V3.8.13

Improvements

• Collection comments show author names and use more unique colours

V3.8.12

Improvements

• Sharing a collection opens the Collection Preview screens

• Add more information in "Subscriptions" for users who are using a subscription from another product. Note that these will expire in March 2025 and future subscriptions must be bought through this application

V3.8.11

Improvements:

• Can share a collection link  and the web app will navigate to the shared collection

V3.8.10

Bug fixes:

• CSV import stuck on "Loading" message

• Fix item deletion not closing item tab

• Improve the item quantity animation when changing magnitudes

• Fix inability to remove the "pieces" fractional component when modifying an item

V3.8.9

Bug fixes:

• Fix the spurious "Loading" message shown when viewing a newly created collection

V3.8.8

Improvements:

• When the quantity is updated and the filter is not using "User Defined" sort, the list will attempt to keep the same card in view.

V3.8.7

Bug fixes:

• Fix item image alignment issue

V3.8.6

Bug fixes:

• Clean up database listeners

• Add Japanese to sign in screen

• Fixed collection subscribe/unsubscribe action

V3.8.5

Bug fixes:

• Fix restore view not initializing correctly

V3.8.4

Bug Fixes:

• Drag and Drop didn't correctly handle lists that were in descending order resulting in broken sort ordering

V3.8.3

Improvements(?)

• Image animations only play for 20 seconds. and are limited to 5MB in size. This is to reduce the battery draining effects of continually playing animations

Bug fixes

• Item tab not removed when deleting an item

V3.8.2

Bug fixes

• Fix item tab header text not reflecting selected item

V3.8.1

Bug fixes

• Re-implement user defined ordering to fix bugs when trying to reorder items that are copies of each other

• Fix inadvertent item selection when scrolling whilst in multi-select mode 

V3.8.0

New Features

• When viewing an item that is in a different language a translate button is shown that when pressed will convert the item into your language

Bug Fixes

• Image icons (select, edit, delete) are not consistently sized

V3.7.0

New Features

• Can save animated images, e.g. GIFs, etc. Note that editing an animated image will turn it into a standard image

V3.6.0

New Features

• Added support for Japanese language

Bug Fixes

• Fixed detection of language on first run

V3.5.0

New Features

• When adding items to a new collection prompts are included to add tags or custom fields to the collection configuration. These messages appear until the user has added five items at which point we assume they don't want to add tags or custom fields and hide the message

• Users without a subscription will see a prompt under the image when modifying items to "subscribe to add more images"

Improvements

• The item and collection modification forms are sectioned to help improve legibility and avoid overwhelming the user with complexity. It's a big visual change so send any feedback to:
  argghh-my-eyes@softwyer.com

• Edit collection or item should now scroll to the field in error when saving.

• Cleaned up the FAB animation when moving between tabs

• Edit item is available when long-pressing items. You can now edit an item directly from the search screen without needing to view it first

• Thumbnail images in the edit screens are much larger

• Added a help panel to search that shows the prefix modifiers

• Work around for displaying transparent tags correctly

Bug Fixes

• Under certain conditions, the CSV import could duplicate the collection under a random container. We still recommend that you test the CSV import in a restored or new collection to identify issues like this before committing to importing in your existing collection.

• Export and share now correctly use the displayed items rather than the whole collection

V3.4.0

New Features

• Can search public collections

• Can preview public collections before subscribing

Improvements:

• Animations when favouriting collections 

• Tweak layouts in landscape

• Avoid drawing over the botch, sorry, the notch in landscape

Bug Fixes:

• Item entry validation bug fixes

• Deep linking was broken

V3.3.2

Bug Fixes:

• Re-implement back action to move up hierarchy on home page.

V3.3.1

New Features:

• Added a new demo for a collection of coins

V3.3.0

New Features:

• New Custom Field for capturing text from images. This field uses uses Google's ML-KIT on-device text recognition to read text from an image. When loading multiple images, the OCR text is appended to the same field.

• New Custom Field for describing objects in images.  This field uses uses Google's ML-KIT on-device image labelling to identify objects in an image. It uses the standard model which has a limited number of objects it can identify.  

To use these features, edit the collection and create new text Custom Fields and enable the "Capture text in images?" or "Describe objects in images?" options.

Note that including either of these features will slightly increase the image processing time when adding images to items.

Bug Fixes:

• Editing container photo images uses a higher resolution, rather than the thumbnail resolution

• Fix issue removing custom field values when value cleared

V3.2.0

New Features:

• Background image upload makes creating items quicker. Read more here.

V3.1.0

New Features:

• Can restore collections from a backup (export). This requires a paid subscription.

• Can import a CSV file into a collection (see Import CSV Collection).  This requires a paid subscription.

Bug Fixes:

• Collection custom field settings for "show in list" and "show in prints" were being ignored.

• Fix item selection issues when rapidly changing the quantity

• Fix iOS image saving issues due to Flutter image wide gamut bug.

Improvements:

• Dates in the CSV export use an ISO8601 format

• Image URLs are included in the CSV export

V3.0.5

New Features:

• Added a demo collection and prompted first time users to add it to their collections. We'll add more demo collections in the future.

Improvements:

• Changed the onboarding process that first time users see to help lead them into creating or adding collections.

Bug Fixes:

• Rework advert layout to avoid overlapping system navigation buttons

• Fixed save icon colour on the invite and manage users screen

• Fixed expiry message colours under varying scenarios

V3.0.4

Bug Fixes

• Remove jankiness when drag/dropping items to reorder them

V3.0.3

Bug Fixes

• Fix an item selection issue preventing copying, moving or deleting items 

V3.0.2

Bug Fixes

• Workaround Flutter framework memory issue

• Fix choppy scrolling when moving back up a list of items

V3.0.1

Bug Fixes

• Fix barcode scanning issues

V3.0.0

New Features

• Reworked theming to use Material Design 3 recommendations

• Many UI tweaks

This release also bumps the language version of Flutter to 3.10 and updates many libraries

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue preventing values being entered into a field after it had been cleared

• Can favourite collections again

Known Issues

• transparent tags do not allow the correct background theme to be shown. This is a library bug in the implementation of chips (details). 

V2.13.0

New Features

• Change the email address associated with the My Collections account

• Added US language option so that dates are formatted as mm/dd/yyyy

Bug Fixes

• UI Tweaks

V2.12.0

New Features

• New boolean type of custom field. This field can have a True/False value with custom indicators for True and False, defaulting to the ballot box emojis: ✅, ❎ When editing the field, a tristate checkbox field is shown that accepts true, false or null. When setting to null, the field is cleared.

V2.11.0

New Features

• Merge two or more collections into a new collection.  Copies all the items, tags and custom fields although it will duplicate these if tags/fields with the same names exist in both collections. Read about the caveats when merging here.

Improvements

• Viewing public collections will now show the ones you are already subscribed to

• Tidied up the navigation drawer styling

V2.10.2

Bug Fixes

• Fix collection header not changing occasionally

• Improve contrast of buttons on legacy Android navigation bar

• Fix navigation transparency when exiting the Photo Gallery Viewer

• Fix some bugs around mis-configured Custom Fields

• Image saving progress tweaks when adding more images to an existing item

V2.10.1

Bug Fixes

• Fix permissions regression on Android 12 and earlier

V2.10.0

Improvements

• When saving items a progress bar is shown

• An error message is shown if the save fails or times out

• Refactored some of the code handling core data structures 

• Updated libraries

v.2.9.1

New Feature

• Tags can have a transparent background

V2.9.0

New Feature

• Tags can have tooltips. Just tap on tag and it will show a tooltip message. Tooltips can be added when editing or creating tags.

V2.8.2

Bug fixes

• minor tweaks to Firebase integration due to dependent library updates

V2.8.1

Improvements

• Reworked landscape layout to remove scroll containers for Item descriptions

• UI tweaks in may places

V2.8.0

Improvements

• Reworked search and global search

• Better indication of when a search is running

• Global search has a limit to restrict too many results overwhelming the device. User is prompted to narrow down the search

Bug Fixes

• Fix black header on Android

•  Opening search from the 'changed' badge should show the latest items correctly

V2.7.0

New Features

• Items in a public collection have a share link that opens that item in the browser. Try it.

Improvements

• Item lists have a draggable scroll bar

V2.6.1

Bug Fixes

• Subscriptions were not recognised on iOS devices.

V2.6.0

New Features

• You can change your name that is visible to other users.

Improvements

• New public collections are easier to identify

V2.5.1

Bug Fixes

• Fix broken search 😮‍💨 

V2.5.0

New Features

• Account deletion option

Improvements

• Invite improvements to confirm invite when sending and notify user they have invites on start up.

Bug Fixes

• Deleting items on iOS should be fixed

• Fixes for search when showing latest item changes (last modified searches)

V2.4.3

Bug Fixes

• Invites were not being picked up by the recipient (thanks Kate for the bug report)

V2.4.2

Bug Fixes

• Minor filter panel UI improvements

V2.4.1

Improvements

• Changing quantity of an item in search view tries to keep that item in view when sorted by quantity

V2.4.0

New Feature

• Global search. You can now search all of the collections you are subscribed to. This feature is limited to paid subscribers as it can be a data heavy request if you have lots of collections.

Bug Fixes 

• Fix bug saving images with a new collection

V2.3.9

New Feature:

• The list of themes now includes a Material You theme to match your Android device's Material theme (OS 12+ but may work on older devices and other platforms too). This is a beta feature and should improve over the next few releases of Flutter.

Improvements:

• Tightening up the code linting.

• Various bug fixes.

v2.3.8

Bug fixes:

• Rework toolchain to see if we can identify the hard crash some users experience

V2.3.7

Bug fixes:

• Export broken

• Empty custom fields are incorrectly being shown

• Progress dialogs not showing

• Bump platform libraries to see if we can fix hard crashes experienced by some users

V2.3.6

Important: Change in default sort mode. Previously, the default sort mode would be Name, Ascending (i.e. an alphanumeric sort) which was generally fine, but for public collections some users would like to control the order of items, especially folders, which can be done by using the 'User defined' sort order. This sort mode allows items to be manually arranged via drag-and-drop (long press to activate).

Note that if you change the sort mode for an item list, it is remembered (per device).

We may roll back this change if we get a lot of complaints and look to implement a default 'collection' sort mode.

V2.3.4, V2.3.5

• Bug fixes for Web and iOS

V2.3.3

Improvements

• Custom field ordering can be initiated via a drag action rather than a long-press and drag

• Changed AD vendor library

V2.3.2

Bug Fixes

• Possible grey screen when viewing items in landscape

V2.3.1

Bug Fixes

• Non-subscribers can add an image to items again  

V2.3.0

New Feature

• Web version

Improvements

• Improved layouts for devices using landscape orientations

Web Version

The old, read-only web version has been replaced with a new version that is based on the mobile application. Open this url, sign in and click around in your collections. On the Web. In a Browser. 

You do need to be a subscriber to add new things, but non-subscribers can edit their collections, etc.

If you do try this, we'd love some feedback: support@softwyer.com

V2.2.0

Improvements

• Filters now show as a pop-up bottom sheet

Bug fixes and library update

v2.1.9

Miscellaneous bug fixes and libraries update

v2.1.8

Bug Fix

• Total option in Custom Fields was not being saved

V2.1.7

Tweaks, bug fixes and library refresh

V2.1.6

Improvements

• Signed in users can comment. Commenting was restricted to subscribers and we may revert this change as each comment costs us money 😭💲💲

Bug Fix

• Item details panel correctly aligns with image if image was zoomed in and subsequently changed

V2.1.5

New Features

• Italian translations

V2.1.4

Bug Fix

• Translation for subscription information missing

V2.1.3

Improvements

• Spanish translations

V2.1.2

New (old!) features

• User defined sorting is enabled for lists. To use, ensure that you have sorted your list by  the "User defined" option and are not in grid view. When you long-press to select and keep pressed, you can drag the item to the new position in the list.

Bug Fixes

• Tweaks to the UI to remove some jankiness

• Date based custom fields did not update when quantity or item changed 

V2.0.14

Improvements

• German translations

Bug Fixes

• Clipped image to prevent overdraw when item card is zoomed in and scrolling horizontally

V2.0.13

Improvements

• Starting to offer My Collections in more languages, so expect some garbled translations courtesy of Google's AI. This version has French enabled. 

• Links in container headers are clickable

• OMG Item view zooms image as card is pulled down

Bug Fixes

• Fix problem changing collection image

• Fix issue choosing the Selection option in Custom Fields

• Fix various issues with CSV Export

V2.0.12

Improvements

• Tweaks to how categories are shown when viewing public collections

V2.0.11

Improvements

• Public collections can be filtered by category

V2.0.10

Improvements

• Clean up display of quantity layouts when editing items

• Quantity units now have a dropdown of previously used values

Bug Fixes

• Quantity animation direction was sometimes incorrect

V2.0.9

Improvements

• The about screen has an option to show all the licenses from the OSS used in the application

• Thumbnails in item lists are zoomed in to create more uniform image sizes in the list

Bug Fixes

• Collections with an old style definition could not be edited by the owner

• Fixed invites screen header corruption

V2.0.8

Improvements

• Added some left/right padding around the text when showing items in a grid.

Bug Fixes

• Images were being saved at full resolution 😭💲💲

V2.0.7

Improvements

• Add multiple images to an item at once

• In item view, images should resize to fill the screen

• In item view, the card should sit neatly under the image

• Long-press selecting items now vibrates

• Added a delete icon to the app bar when viewing items

• Tweak the text in the save dialog after some complaints 😲

• Saving images is slightly more memory efficient

Bug fixes

• Selected items remain selected after scrolling off and back into view

• Image no longer disappears after editing

• Fixed action menu showing a blank line

• Comments can only be edited by their authors

• Some UI tweaks

V2.0.6

Improvements

• In item view, the card will fill the screen if there are no images 

• A new barcode reader plugin is being used. Let us know if barcode scanning exhibits any quirks

• When editing an item, toggling quantity off 'clears' the quantity fields to make it more obvious what it does

Bug Fixes

• Anonymous users do not see PENDING public collections

• Anonymous users do not see "New public collection" snackbars

• Dark theme tweaks

V2.0.5

Improvements

• Tag filtering includes a 'NOT' option

Bug fixes

• Clicking on a collection after previously deleting one should now transition correctly

• Item comment linking is working again

V2.0.4

Bug fix

• Revert the back button behaviour so that it moves back a tab and then closes when it is on the first one

V2.0.3

Improvements ??

• Added consent form for EU and other users

V2.02

Bug fix

• Fix broken guest login

V2.0.1

Improvements

• Initial page layout tweaks

V2.0.0

V2 introduces a layer of caching to the application that will allow the user to browse their collections whilst offline. 

Currently, when the device has no network connectivity, the application cannot read the user's collections. With this change the application should be able to read the collection data as long as the user has previously viewed the collection and it's containers. 

Item lists are aware of the network status and will show different messages for no items due to network connectivity issues, i.e. the data has not been cached.

This does not affect image caching which is handled by the SDK and has very limited caching.

Note: We don't recommend that you update collections whilst offline.

Improvements

• Caching of items when viewed to better work offline (see above)

• Search remembers last scroll position when going back into search view

• Changing a quantity in search tries to keep that item in view by scrolling with it

• A change in Google's SDK means network calls must use secure connections. This affects images and so the application will try to fix HTTP image requests by using HTTPS. This may not always work, but this problem is out of our control. This should only collections that use non-firebase URLs (probably just older collections)

• Images can be edited to crop and rotate after then have been selected in the editors. This applies to existing images too.

• Full screen image view has more responsive swiping and 'notch' support

Bug Fixes

• Tab headers change when an item is edited

• Email invites are no longer case sensitive

• Fixed the broken Share Collections placeholder screen that shows when there are no more invites left

• The Manager Users screen can now delete users with invites

• More resilient to items with missing data, e.g. very old collections

V1.8.7

Improvements

• Dates can be from 1700

V1.8.6

Improvements

• New end point to improve Apple sign-in responsiveness

Bug Fixes

• Comment related bugs when items are deleted

V1.8.5

Improvements

• Workarounds for Apple Sign-In that can be horribly slow

V1.8.3

Bug Fixes

• Fix sign-in issues with Apple ID

V1.8.2

Bug Fixes

• Fix Custom Field validation and item editing issues

V1.8.1

Improvements

• Copy, Move and Delete work in search mode (long-press on the cards to start selecting)

Bug Fixes

• Some search related fixes

• Fix selecting items that was broken in v1.8.0

• Barcode scanning when editing and adding will allow the capture of multiple barcodes

V1.8.0

Improvements

• Better layouts when in landscape mode

• Add some information for first-time users who don't sign-in and then leave one star reviews because they are ignorant of the need to sign-in.