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InfiniTime 1.4.0 "Pink Grapefruit" - The 1000th commit!

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This is InfiniTime 1.4 "Pink Grapefruit"! This new version brings, among other things, a vastly improved touch driver and a color picker for the PineTimeStyle watchface.

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Fun fact : the commit that updated the version number is exactly the 1000th commit on the project. What a milestone!

Let me start with the touch driver. Before this update, it was working fine. Now, it's working a lot better! The touch driver, and the handling of touch inputs have been improved by a lot. The latency of the touch input (the time between your finger tapping the display and InfiniTime registering the touch event) have been reduced, and the whole touch experience is a lot more snappy. For example, the Paddle and Two games are now playable again, and gestures are detected with more accuracy than before. This feature was mostly contributed by Riku Isokoski.

The color picker is a nice addition to the PineTimeStyle watchface. This watchface, introduced in InfiniTime 1.3 by KieranC, is a really nice looking watchface inspired by a Pebble watchface. In this new version, you have the possibility to customize the colors (background, text and lateral bar) of your favorite watch. Thanks KieranC for this nice addition!

On the UI side, the application list, quick actions and settings menu and also the music and metronome apps have been slightly improved to make a better use of the small screen of the PineTime. Also, before going to sleep, the display is dimmed to a lower brightness level, notifying the user that the watch is going to sleep soon.

Call notifications also received a bit of love. They now vibrate longer and following a repetitive pattern so that you never miss a phone call again! Thanks to Florian and Riku Isokoski for these improvements!

Many users noticed that the battery level displayed in InfiniTime was a bit off : it never reached 100% on charge, and the device would shut down at almost 30%. While still not perfect (other improvements are still in the works), the battery measurement should now be a bit more consistent and reliable. These improvements were initiated by hassless.

In the version, we also tried to fix the bootloop issue some of you encountered. As this issue is not easy to reproduce, we cannot guarantee it won't happen again, but we really hope we've improved the situation on that matter. As a reminder, if your PineTime enters in a bootloop, the best solution is to wait for the battery to drain completely before charging it again. Your PineTime should then restart as if nothing happened.

On the development side, we've added support for the devcontainers in VSCode, thanks to Niall Cooling and Tim Keller.

Thanks again to everyone who contributed to this new version of InfiniTime!

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