github PimpinPumpkin/Vela v0.4.1801
Vela 0.4.1801 nightly

pre-release4 hours ago

Nightly build.

What's changed in 0.4.1801

  • One set of map points: parks, temples, schools and museums come from the places bake, and the basemap's own copy hides over it
  • Vela uses half the memory right after launch: the speech model, the voice and Google's pages load when you reach for them
  • Bus stop icons wait one zoom step closer, so busy downtowns are not carpeted with them
  • Bus stops published by several transit feeds show as one stop instead of a pile of icons
  • Dense cities draw fewer place icons when zoomed out, ranked by how many sources agree, with food above offices
  • English names on the map in Japan and other non-Latin countries, and no more duplicate shop pins there
  • A name typed while looking at another city also finds the place near you
  • Version notes in the app leave out changes that only touch documentation or code comments
  • Shops sit on the OpenStreetMap pin whenever the names match, not only between 30 and 120 m
  • Smoother first seconds after launch: the speech model and voice load in the background
  • Shared Google Maps links open the place, and Use Vela without Google can refuse them
  • Fix six places where the code and the docs disagreed
  • Update downloaded regions applies patches on its own, and Update no longer deletes the region before re-downloading it
  • Car search reads the downloaded place packs when there is no signal
  • Transit places with no Google listing get their departure board, including every tap with Google off
  • With an avoid on, the open router's unrestricted alternates are no longer offered beside the avoiding route
  • Monthly place-pack and road-feature bakes, and the quarterly speed-limit bake, run the catalog in two halves under the 256-job cap
  • Search field keeps the fill-in cursor at the end, offline search fills the addresses it shows, and the places manifest repair re-lists correctly
  • Open-data places carry their city, state and ZIP, and a chain locator's hours survive the dedupe
  • Manifest merges retry a lost upload race instead of failing the run
  • Tap links check the house number, open-data hours convert for nearly every listing, and the places bake keeps OpenStreetMap's hours
  • Tap resolve: far name matches no longer block the listing on the spot, and the sheet says where an unlinked place comes from
  • Tap resolve asks for one page of results, and the sheet shows the map's own data while Google loads
  • Tapped places: a loading sheet that updates in place, fuel stations no longer take the transit path, and a site-named row finds the listing of its kind beside the building
  • Car search: autocomplete while typing, the full search only on submit, and real cancellation
  • The fill-in arrow puts only the row's primary text in the search box
  • Search suggestions from Google's own autocomplete, a fill-in arrow on every row, and a typed address geocodes on Enter
  • Fix house numbers vanishing in Germany and the Netherlands: Alaska's antimeridian box covered the whole latitude band (#257)
  • Build under another package name with -PappId, for the Android Auto ownership experiment
  • Car screens: icon-only action strips, the badge in the stable area, category markers on the along-route rows
  • Car map: apply the palette from the first snapshot, since the style observer never fires
  • Car map follows the phone's theme choice and draws the puck an eighth of the screen wide
  • Car map: the palette gets the style's layer list and logs whether it applied; attribution matches the phone
  • Car map: re-theme on day/night, the Vela puck, the speed badge inside the visible area
  • The places manifest repair treats an archive re-uploaded since its rev as changed, not only one whose size moved
  • Fix the quoting in the places manifest repair that broke on an empty row
  • The places manifest is derived from the release, and the bake merges no longer cancel each other
  • Define the repo root the places bake reads its generic-word list from; 54 US bakes died on the unbound variable
  • Offline maps opens without the stall, and the region filter keeps its results in view
  • Online, a downloaded map is used only while the whole view is inside it
  • Offline, keep the downloaded map mounted while any of the view is still inside it
  • The canary release is recreated on every push so it sits at the top of the list, named after its build
  • Offline maps as one list: what is downloaded, then countries A to Z
  • One browser identity for the hidden WebViews, and the compiled Chrome version back on stable
  • Update checks stop downloading the data releases' asset lists
  • Match Europe's four-letter brands, glued names and cross-script taps
  • Same-business rule for every app language, and for names written without spaces
  • Places bake pulls the newest AllThePlaces run instead of a fixed one
  • Places bake folds the variant family with the app's generic word list; a bigger generic list
  • Same-business rule, city pass: brand prefixes, phrases, plurals, street words, and the neighborhood as generic
  • Fix the build: the ambient marker carries its house number for the fuel-lot rule
  • Android Auto round three: pause, search along the route, alert toasts, the road you are on, overview, corridor glyphs
  • Same-business rule takes kinds: a fuel lot is one station, an overlap across kinds is two businesses
  • Android Auto: Vela's map theme, one OSM credit, the puck framed in view, a smooth glide and Vela's voice
  • One same-business rule for taps, Both-mode twins and the places bake
  • Stop reloading the map style while panning along a downloaded region's border
  • Paused drives draw the route lavender, offline turns on divided roads, car puck size setting, offline search without the bus stops
  • Offline boards and addresses, resume from a fresh fix, quieter offline turns, car puck, music lead, closed listings, nightly titles
  • Add a "Use Vela without Google" switch that keeps every Google request off
  • Delete all offline data in one tap, and give the space back when an area is deleted
  • Try side streets around plate cameras when every route still passes them
  • Ask Google for the trip through your stops, not just the direct one
  • Add Hong Kong, Macau and every Chinese province to the offline list
  • Pick the region a place is in by its real border, not its bounding box
  • Keep the street name bubbles off the blue line, and the compass out from under the nav buttons
  • Give Traditional Chinese readers place names in their own script
  • Print the street names hint the way it was written
  • Stop saying the street name in the three places that ignored the switch

Full changelog: v0.4.1733...v0.4.1801

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