Release v2.1.0 - Android Support, Fixed Visual Artifacts, Improved Performance, and New Community Efforts

[adrian-miasik]

Release Notes

• Introducing Android Support! (Port: Android (Mobile) #67)
  • Added support for the Android platform. You can now use Unity Pomodoro on your Android devices! (See .apk file within the release binaries below).
  • Implemented Android Notifications support on work/break timer completion
  • Implemented timer reduction on application focus (Previously the app would not decrement the timer unless it is being focused on, so closing and re-opening the app won't progress the timer along. This has been fixed in this release.)
• Improved Performance
  • The application will now target the user's current refresh rate to prevent unnecessary GPU usage.
• Fixed SVG and Shader Visual Artifacts (Improvement: SVG Visual Artifacts #68)
• Improved Open Source Community Efforts
  • We now have a Code of Conduct document to act as community guidelines for Unity Pomodoro
  • We now have a Contributing document for those interested in working on Unity Pomodoro
  • We now have a Bug Reporting Template for those that wish to submit bugs / issues to the project
    • If you click "New Issue" in the issues tab, you will be prompted to use this template
    • We will continue to accept blank templates too, but advise/urge people to use the bug template instead
  • We now have a Pull Request Template for those that wish to create a feature / PR to the project
• Bugfixes
  • Fixed digit selection on page switching (Previously digit selection would require a timer restart to fix our digit selection behavior if the user swapped pages. I.E. Double clicking a double digit yielded unexpected results when navigating between pages. This has now been fixed)

Authors Notes

• I'll be looking into creating a Google Play Developer Account in the near future and look into creating a play store app submission. For the time being, Android builds will be released here on GitHub using a debug keysign. I'd would love to get some feedback on the Android build.
• As always, the Microsoft Store version will be uploaded/updated over the next couple days.
• Shoutout to Jose from the Microsoft Store reviews for flagging down the GPU performance concern 👍
• If you have any opinions/requests/ideas on something you'd like to see added, please comment away in the discussion!
• For those that wish to support this project (and fund further development), you can donate via my GitHub Sponsors page ❤️
• If you're enjoying the app, please share it with your friends! Getting the word out means a lot.
• Till next time 👋

🛠 Specifications

Project Size (Zipped): ~24-46 MB
Contributor(s): @adrian-miasik

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This discussion was created from the release Release v2.1.0 - Android Support, Fixed Visual Artifacts, Improved Performance, and New Community Efforts.

[adrian-miasik]

Seems like there's some visual issues going on with WebGL and Android builds. Will be taking a look at this later

[adrian-miasik]

Okay, so WebGL builds aren't something we support but on the Android front: I've created a new Android build that does not have these visuals assets issues. Release 2.1.0 now has a fixed Android APK file at the time of this post.

I'm not sure what the root cause is but it seems that Unity Cloud Builds have failed me here yet again. I haven't bothered contacting their support this time around. I've tried tweaking the Unity Cloud Build config for Android to replicate a local build output but no dice. Local builds for Android seem to come out fine, but I'm not sure why Unity Cloud Builds for Android yields these cropped/smeared assets. I've tried changing compression modes but haven't found a difference there. I'm likely going to create local builds moving forward and get rid of the Unity Cloud Build service. Local builds creates less issues at the cost of no async builds.

[adrian-miasik]

I could spend more time on investigating and tweaking the Unity Cloud Build configs further but instead I'll likely drop the service and work towards a local build queue solution.