New pedometer update coming to fix reliability issues on Android tomorrow 16.00 UTC+0. Claim your steps before that!
Google released a fix to Android pedometer issues.
Hello!
Google just last Friday released a new pedometer API. This new pedometer API basically fixes all that made it so difficult previously to develop a reliable privacy focused pedometer for Android.
We're releasing this tomorrow at 16.00 UTC+0. Your unclaimed steps on Android will not carry over. iOS steps will carry over, and this doesn't affect iOS users.
Few notes about this:
- The sticky notification will be gone, as a background process is no longer needed.
- Because WalkScape no longer has a background process, notifications will be temporarily unavailable on Android.
- The new pedometer API no longer needs weird permission setups for it to work. You should be fine using just default app settings.
- The new pedometer API is part of Google Play Services however. If you're playing on a de-googled phone, it is likely that background step counting will not be functional. You can however try installing the required package: com.google.android.gms:play-services-fitness if that is possible.
- Battery efficiency is likely to be much better, as WalkScape no longer needs background processing.
Full changelogs:
Added
- Initial work on game logic multithreading started
- Separated the Recording API into its own plugin
- A completely new pedometer using Recording API on Android
- Added lastSave and more features to cooldowns to make them tick
- Added three items using the abilities
- Added UI for abilities
- Made Can Be Sold and Can Be Dropped to work
- Added ticker for steps in cooldowns
- Added a proper UI for using abilities
- Added action resolving
- Made a ticker UI for either steps or time
- Added requirements for actions
- Added requirements for cooldowns
- Added UI that shows either cooldown requirements or action requirements depending on which is needed to be shown
- Added a component to render keywords inside text
- Added that some ability might be allowed to be used more than once and have multiple timers at the same time
- Added activity type requirement
- Added traveling requirement
- Added Syrenthia background to the main menu
Changed
- Changed Feed to Abilities
Fixed
- Optimized the game assets, reducing the size of the game from 200MB to 65MB
- Optimisation when loading a lot of steps at once
- Inventory bug fixed where the items would sometimes not show up
- Fixed the issue where first time fetching pedometer data and be the current time
- Fixed the bug when using abilities that they would not have a cooldown added
- Fixed more than 450 problems reported by Dart Analyzer
29/05/2024 09:45
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Lima
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This has been a long time coming, finally! (I am not on android anymore, but this is great news) Also really excited to try out the abilities, whenever they are released! :D Great work as always
29/05/2024 12:23