Cobalt

Every feature of every app and of Settings driven in the simulator, and fixes for what that found.

Changed

• Settings says what Wi-Fi is doing: looking, joining, disconnecting, or why a join failed. The Battery page stays live (#346).
• Bluetooth says it is turning on, and that it starts once per boot (#346).
• Preprints, Feeds, Daily Brief and Fanshelf say dates the way people do (#346).
• The shared reader says "This is the end." as information, numbers bookmarks by page, and Back to the book closes every panel (#346).

Fixed

• A refused switch left Software update stuck on a failed check (#346).
• Launcher tile names broke inside a word, and the bottom tabs did not fit at large text sizes (#346).
• Grimoire stopped responding after one party member was opened (#346).
• Frame's shelf could not be repaired once a photo was missing. kobo frame push now repairs it (#346).
• Comics: Move page and Rotate page fell off the panel (#346).
• Daily Brief overflowed when refreshing over a saved brief (#346).
• Readeck lost articles with normal-length IDs (#346).
• Kitchen Card's timer never ended. It now counts against the clock (#346).

Store

• Each fixed app carries a new version with a release note (#346).

Full changes: https://github.com/BandarLabs/Cobalt/compare/beta-v0.3.34...beta-v0.3.35

Books set as a printed book is, every app with a launcher mark of its own, and the fixes from a walk through every app on a Clara BW.

Before you update

• Every Store app is rebuilt for protocol 18 and needs Cobalt 0.3.34. Update Cobalt first, then the apps.

Added

• Emphasis is set in Literata's own italic instead of slanted upright letters (#339).
• Apps can indent a block and open a paragraph with a drop initial. Verses uses both to set a poem the way a printed book of verse does (#339).
• Every app has a launcher mark that says what it is for, and no two share a silhouette. Readers on 0.3.33 and older keep the marks they had (#345).
• Readers with no measured profile, such as the Forma, Clara 2E and Nia, ask you to touch two dots on first launch and calibrate touch from them (#340).
• when::spoken in the SDK says a date the way people do (#344).

Changed

• A book opens on the whole panel, as on the stock reader. A touch at the top calls the bar back, the sides turn the page, and the page number moved into the Aa panel (#338).
• Notices, dialogs, menus and controls share one look: rounded notices with a mark, dialogs centred clear of the content, and menus set as rows (#344).
• Frame, Panels and Music Stand open straight to the picture, page or score with nothing over it (#338).
• In the Store, tapping an installed app opens it. Its page, with Uninstall, is behind the mark at the row's edge or a press and hold (#338).

Fixed

• Pages ended a quarter early on the reader, because apps measured in one font and the runtime drew in another (#338).
• Words ran together after an italic run ("veryremarkable"), a space appeared after a line-end hyphen ("daisy- chain"), and paragraph spacing added up instead of collapsing (#338).
• A tap off the type or light panel closed the book. It now puts the panel away first (#338).
• Tools such as kobo tap refused a reader on firmware 4.46 (#337).
• Unsupported readers (Elipsa, Sage and the i.MX50/6SL generation) are refused plainly by kobo setup and on the reader, before anything is installed (#340).

Store

• All apps rebuilt for protocol 18, each with its new mark (#339, #345).
• Fixes in Verses, Crossword, Vault, Post, Magnet, Daily Brief, Kitchen Card and Lichess, among others (#338).

Docs

• Every README, guide and site page checked against the code and corrected (#341).

Not yet tested on a reader

• Touch calibration and the other changes for unmeasured models have not run on a Forma, Clara 2E, Nia, Elipsa or Sage.

Full changes: https://github.com/BandarLabs/Cobalt/compare/beta-v0.3.33...beta-v0.3.34

Audiobooks plays what is on the reader, in every common format, and Books no longer closes on letters no reader font carries.

Before you update

• Audiobooks needs Cobalt 0.3.33. Update Cobalt first, then the app.

Added

• Audiobooks plays MP3, M4B, M4A, Ogg Vorbis, Opus, FLAC and WAV copied into an Audiobooks folder, one file or a folder of numbered parts per book. It shows each book's cover and chapters, plays at 0.5× to 3× with the pitch unchanged, has a sleep timer, and keeps your place in every book (#334).
• A ten-hour book costs the same memory as a short one. Tracks are no longer capped at under three minutes (#334).
• The browser installer lists the apps on the reader, removes one, and can put the reader on the Beta channel. Until this reaches Stable, the Beta choice still installs the stable archive (#335).

Changed

• The tab marker is as wide as the tab's name, verbs in an action bar have short dividers between them, and the first section under the top bar no longer draws a second hairline (#333).
• Threaded replies draw their depth rules unbroken (#333).

Fixed

• Books closed on a page with a letter no reader font carries, such as the Hebrew on Moby-Dick's Etymology page. The letter now draws as a box and the book stays open (#331).
• Contents, Notes, Links and marked passages showed one screen and dropped the rest. They now page, and Contents opens on the chapter you are reading (#331).
• A note in the Notes list could not be followed unless its paragraph was also marked (#331).
• The browser installer wrote to readers on 5.x firmware, which Cobalt cannot start on. It now refuses them before writing anything (#333).

Store

• Twelve apps that use the shared reader get the Contents and Notes fixes: Library, Gutenbird, Fanshelf, Grimoire, Needles, Preprints, Zotero, Daily Brief, Hacker News, RSS, Miniflux and Readeck (#331).
• Hacker News 1.0.17 marks job postings as Job instead of "1 point" and "0 comments" (#333).

Docs

• Every README and site screenshot retaken on the current runtime, with real content instead of placeholders (#330). README app links now lead to each app's own folder (#332).

Not yet tested on a reader

• Sound over Bluetooth headphones, and the installer's app list, Remove and Beta choice in a real browser.

Full changes: https://github.com/BandarLabs/Cobalt/compare/beta-v0.3.32...beta-v0.3.33

Colour on the Clara Colour and Libra Colour, quieter type with room to read it, and a Books that opens on the book you're reading.

Before you update

• Every Store app is rebuilt for protocol 17 and needs Cobalt 0.3.32. Update Cobalt first, then the apps.

Added

• Colour on Kaleido readers. Each app can name one of nine accents: the top bar takes its tint, and the primary button, selections, switches, ticks and progress take its strong shade. Text stays ink. Greyscale readers draw exactly what they drew before (#322).
• Colour where it means something: a red battery at 20% and below, green while charging, amber banners for attention, green for success, brown board squares, and refused fields tinted red (#322).
• Pictures in colour on a colour reader, in the book view, Frame, Fieldbook, Flashcards and Gutenbird. kobo frame push keeps a photograph's colour for a colour reader (#322).
• Books opens on the book you're reading, with its cover, page and Continue reading. The library below is shown as covers read from each book: Library, Recent, and Kobo reader for Store books and PDFs (#324).
• Books lists the books that Cobalt apps download, such as Gutenbird's, by their own titles (#324).

Changed

• Screens at protocol 17 use quieter type. Headings are 4.6 and 3.8 mm instead of 5.4 and 4.2, instructions are 2.7 mm instead of 2.4, and there's 3 mm under the top bar. When a screen would lose a line to the extra room, it gives the room back (#327).
• Commands to type on a computer are set in a fixed-pitch face on a grey panel and break only at spaces (#327).
• A sideloaded book shows the title Kobo's own library has for it, not its file name (#324).
• kobo setup installs on readers the runtime already runs on: models with no profile, profiles awaiting review and unmeasured firmware. It says what is untested before it installs. Firmware 5.x is still refused (#319).

Fixed

• A Sync window stops when Cobalt hands back to the reader, and carries on in the next session. It used to run for up to five minutes while the stock reader started (#325).
• A page where a chapter opens no longer ends about six lines early. Frankenstein goes from 242 to 233 pages at the default size (#324).
• Books shows the size of a book over 4 MB instead of calling it damaged (#324).
• Pressing a coloured control no longer leaves a grey rectangle in the bar (#322).

Store

• All 46 apps rebuilt for protocol 17. Every one needs Cobalt 0.3.32 (#324, #327).
• Hacker News and Feeds are orange, Preprints and Stacks red, Birds green and Syncthing blue on a colour reader (#322).
• Fieldbook's species page has the name as its heading and one Back. Flashcards' first-use screen fits sideways at the largest text size (#327), and its licence notice names every library it is built with (#328).

Simulator

• On a colour profile, captures are in colour. The panel view runs the frame through a model of the colour filter, with the saturation an estimate until it's measured (#322).

Not yet tested on a reader

• Colour on a Clara Colour or Libra Colour, reading covers on a Clara BW, Sync stopping at hand-back, and the new type sizes have only run in the simulator so far.

Full changes: https://github.com/BandarLabs/Cobalt/compare/beta-v0.3.31...beta-v0.3.32