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What's changed in 0.4.739

Attention cards are amber, not baseline pink
Faster-route buttons stay readable under Material You
The arrival ETA follows live traffic even when the route never changes
Free-drive speed box sits down by the locate button
Translations move to Weblate, and the docs stop miscounting languages
Ending a drive clears the route line
Stray taps during a drive can't add stops, and minimizing the route chooser zooms in on the route
Buy Me a Coffee badge in the README
Donate goes somewhere real now: Buy Me a Coffee
Fresh README screenshot set on the merged build, plus two transit shots
The Fastest tag follows the ETA, not the top row
Merge cleanup: focus ring on the layers toggle row
Merge cleanup: repair union-resolved regions
Merge cleanup: dedupe imports and drop a superseded flock select line
Avoid-cameras moves its pick to the top of the route list
Route fit keeps both endpoints visible and stops zooming to space
Docs: satellite view moves from roadmap to features
The +N more stops line opens the stops editor too
Along-route search panel pins to the top and dismisses on any map tap
Nav aids: the compass stays up during nav, re-center works while stationary
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D-pad cleanup: parking hub menu, focus rings, results handle key path
Numbered stop pins on the map
Multiple stops read as their own +N more stops line on the card
Transit stop names on the map take the transit blue per theme
Speed readout is one rounded rectangle that widens when the limit joins
Nav search panel: closes when you grab the map, rides to the top while typing
Stop picker polish: hint banner follows the theme, picker header slims to a mode label
Starting nav clears the planning search's leftover results
Nav search field: arrow keys escape to the chips below
Layers panel is a VelaMenu so key-only devices can use it
Nav search and volume float on the map, and the search takes free text
Speed readout without a posted limit is a compact circle
Satellite fixes: imagery year retries after a failed lookup, overlay house numbers go white too
Docs: generalize a verification example in FEATURES
Search along the route while navigating
A coordinate deep link moves the camera to its pin
Top card follow-ups: notifications sit under it, add-stop button with stops present, drop the reroute flash
Satellite polish: white labels with black halos, white pin backings, yellow freeways, cleaner credit
City names come back in suggestions: never demote Google's top match
Directions header moves to a Google-style card at the top of the screen
Offline routing: highway shields, sign destinations and exit numbers, no graph rebuild needed
Satellite view: transit and traffic overlays draw above the imagery, capture year gets its own line
Address suggestions get a real geocoder (Photon, OSM)
Results: sort chip moves left of the rating filter
Satellite: ghost roads, dimmed imagery year, toggle-time year fetch
Route shields on the map: bigger, bolder, Google-like
Layers button: satellite grows into a multi-layer panel
Nearby suggestions rank above far matches while typing
Docs deep pass: scrub personal info, fix stale claims, add LANGUAGES.md
Satellite imagery layer with a map button
Stream-parse the traffic-controls Overpass fetch
Departure-board parse anchors are remotely repairable
Review and stop counts use real plural forms
Share to Vela from any app's share sheet
Honor the zoom in geo links
Mute turn guidance while off-route
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House-number gate moves from invisible text to no text
Board refresh stops polling while the app is backgrounded
Quarterly cron rebakes the routing graphs and overlay data
Departure boards stop listing every bus twice at double-fed stops
Bus stop names hide until you're zoomed in close
Street names dodge the camera badges
Deep links fly the camera to the point
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README: reorder What you get by what matters most
Cameras yield to POI icons and labels
Flock cameras: draw at route-overview zoom for real
Fix house numbers never rendering on a cold start
Docs audit: trim the README and fix stale claims
Merge paired curb stops into one map icon with a combined board (#130)
Departure boards refresh while open (#128)
Gas stations were showing bus departures; speed sign joins the speed box (#127)
Stop timeline: show the stops already passed, and cross out moved times (#126)
Speed limit badge was dead: opacity 0 hides features from queryRenderedFeatures (#125)
Closing a far-away place no longer flies the camera back home (#124)
Typed coordinates drop a pin instead of searching as text (#123)
Stop taps work in every app language, with a direct Transitous board fallback (#71) (#122)
Show house numbers only when zoomed to the 50 ft scale or closer (#121)
Stop timeline: GTFS trip data with live/cancelled per stop, Google-style rows (#120)
Canonical GTFS transit stops on the map with an offline area cache (#119)
Docs: transit data sources - the Transitous/Google division of labour (#118)
Feature-phone support: adaptive density + small-screen D-pad focus fixes (from vela-dpad) (#117)
Stops expand full-screen again
No photo shimmer on transit stops
Transitous departure boards: open GTFS realtime as the primary source
Board: pills for named lines, explicit Stops action on each route row
Bus board polish, working diagnostics export, cameras in the README
Bus polish: after-midnight day markers, proximity fallback for stop resolution
Transit stop correlation: widen the junction-to-stop radius, keep OSM stop icons
Hide OSM bus-stop icons; drop the blink-and-gone add-stop banner
Cameras on by default; show departure boards for intersection-named stops
Flock cameras: refresh the dataset from a hosted release, no app update needed
Flock cameras: bundle the dataset on-device so the layer is instant and avoid is reliable
Departure board: list every embedded time vertically, each with a countdown
Flock: bound the per-endpoint camera-fetch timeout so failover can't hang
Departure board: show up to 8 arrivals per line, not 4
Flock cameras: fail over across Overpass mirrors so a 504 no longer blanks the layer
Transit: only hide reviews/about for BARE stops, not rated transit buildings
Transit stops: drop the Reviews and About tabs entirely
Transit stops: skip the review scrape
Fix the browse-map jank: arm the speed overlay by motion, not by follow
Fix OOM crash + pan/zoom jank: largeHeap + stream-parse Overpass + revert flock z11
Flock cameras: show them at route-overview zoom + record fetch outcome to diagnostics
Unified Google-style speed box + smoother free-drive tracking
Fix black overlay on roads + transit stop resolution + chevron hiding search bar
CI: guard against missing translations (fail fast on a locale gap)
i18n: backfill settings_version_copied into the CJK + Hebrew locales
Terrain shading: translate the toggle + hint into all 14 locales
Flock avoid: settings hint states the detour cap + the unavoidable case
Reconcile #85/#101 speed-limit sign (free-drive guard + overlay fallback)
Transit tap-through: pick the leg that boards at the tapped stop, not just the line
Flock along-route count: tile the query + segment-distance the near test
Flock avoid: stamp the route set by epoch so naming a route can't drop the badges
Dictation audio focus: abandon before release so music can't stick paused
Transit route detail: cancel the lookup on close, focus the sheet's back arrow
Add Android Auto troubleshooting doc for sideloaded nav apps
Nav: speedometer is a rounded rectangle, matched to the SPEED LIMIT sign
Speed-B: device-verified on a simulated drive + log only on change
Speed-B: use Log.i for the overlay-read diagnostic (visible in release)
Speed limit: online 'Speed B' streamer - posted limit without a routing graph
Flock: make the toggle AVOID, not just warn (auto-prefer low-camera route)
Flock: opt-in 'cameras on route' warning on the route picker
Directions: long-press the map to route through an arbitrary point
Search: a no-result search no longer shows a blank screen
Flock layer: fix the Overpass query (out body) + persist the toggle
Voice: pause playing music while Vela dictation is listening
Transit UI: drop the chevrons, go clean Google-style
Transit tap-through: transit-biased headsign geocode + board-leg pick + docs
Transit: tap-through route stop timeline off the departure board
Departure board: show more routes per stop (cap 12 -> 24)
Share menu: rename 'Google Maps link' to 'Copy link' and copy to clipboard
Show Flock cameras from a neighbourhood zoom, not only street level
Docs: bus route numbers + flat-vs-grouped board layouts
Show route numbers on the departure board and group buses by route
Tapping a bus stop opens the stop, not the road intersection
Add "Open on the web" to the share menu
Fix the cold-launch camera staying zoomed out instead of on your location
Show the departure board when you tap a bus stop on the map (issue #71)
Show a live departure board when you tap a transit stop
Show a "departs in X min" countdown and live badge on transit options
Add the reversible bake pipeline for a posted-speed-limit overlay
Pin Hebrew dictation instead of falling back to auto-detect
Show the speed-limit sign while free-driving, not only in navigation
Redo the launch recenter in the view layer so it actually fires
Draw mapped Flock and other ALPR cameras on the map
Snap the map back to my location on launch after a crash
Drop the 'like Google' aside from the terrain-shading hint
Add a terrain-shading toggle (off by default) and fix the reviews search circle
Recolor the overlay houses in classic mode and note it is dark-mode for now
Translate the newest UI strings into every language
Integrate Hebrew alongside Chinese and Japanese, and correct its notes
Add Hebrew (עברית) localization + RTL — 12th language
Give the classic night palette its own look and enlarge the location arrow
Make the navigation arrow bigger, drop the white ring, and use a brighter navy
Point the missing-voice pill at system voice settings for languages Piper cannot speak
Make re-parking a clear choice instead of a two-step dance
Track your location while free-driving and smooth the heading beam
Update the language-set tests to expect Chinese and Japanese
Escape the apostrophes in the map colors hint so the release build stops choking
Fix the Chinese depart phrase so it compiles
Add Chinese, Taiwanese Chinese and Japanese across the app, spoken directions and dictation
Point offline routing at the rebuilt graphs so avoid tolls and avoid highways work everywhere
Let the routing graph workflow publish a parallel graph generation beside the old one
Keep map POIs around when you pan back or close a place instead of refetching from Google
Add a map colors setting with the modern Google look and the classic Vela look, remote default included
Tap the version number in Settings to copy it for bug reports
Catch the feature list up on the nav puck, bold streets, bike teal, plurals and the ramp voice fix
Say '1 result' not '1 results' by using proper plurals for the results count
Fix the nav voice mispronouncing take by giving the sign destination its own beat
Draw dedicated bike paths in Google's teal on the map
Bold the street-name labels on the map, matching Google
Make the navigation arrow match Google: a white arrow inside a filled blue circle
Put the privacy comparison table back in the README and move the how-it-works breakdown to its own doc
Record that menu photo dates cannot be recalibrated: the gallery request is unchanged and Google now returns no photos to any automated request
Slim the README down to the essentials and move the deep dives into PRIVACY and SPEC
Retake every README screenshot with the standard teal look after the last set accidentally used wallpaper theming
Fresh screenshots for the 0.4 look, and the gallery shot retires
Note the 0.4 line in the project guide
The 0.4 line begins
Fix a brace the merge dropped in the search parser tests
Review fixes: cache write race, stale dot paints, avoid chips no longer degrade online routes
Retire the throwaway GraphHopper probe module and give the lists menu its keypad focus
Write the POI speed changes into the project guide
Map places appear as they load, nearby areas preload, and your home area shows instantly on launch
Avoid tolls and avoid highways arrive in the route chooser
Routing learns avoid tolls and avoid highways under the hood
The parking button and the results filter menus join the soft ink treatment
Icons stop reading darker than their labels, and the light map gets its last sampled colors
Map places that lose the label fight still show as small colored dots
Light mode is pixel matched to the real Google Maps app
Note how the sports-field tint actually lands in the map style guide
Sports fields actually show their tint now
Park and bike trails draw as green lines and sports fields get their Google tint in dark mode
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Alleys and driveways draw a shade darker than streets in dark mode, like Google
Zoomed-in buildings stop glowing brighter than the palette in dark mode
The Android Auto map uses the Roboto style too, not just the phone screen
Microsoft footprint buildings wear the sampled palette too, and the old map colors are archived
Map labels now render in Roboto like Google, from our own font host
Flick a minimized place card open from anywhere on it, not just the pull bar
Dark mode is pixel matched to the real Google Maps app and flicks can no longer read as zero
Sheets finally flick like the place card, the map wears your eyedropped Google colors, two finger tilt actually triggers, and photos zoom on double tap
Correct the notes: the place page carries no photo dates, the photo listing recalibration is the only route
Census the page payload strings while hunting photo dates
Read the photo dates out of the page's embedded payload strings
Loosen the photo date mining so it finds the page's real photo entries
Restore the project notes wiped by a bad merge resolution and add the missing entries
Menu and gallery photos get their dates back, flicks snap sheets a detent, and the map palette tracks the Google app
The minimized route chooser reopens smoothly, pans away like the other sheets, and light mode roads pick up Google's grey
Map greens match Google now and are actually visible in dark mode, the trip time stops wrapping, and the map style setting is gone
Flat green forests and marshes like Google, an interface size setting for car screens, bigger nav buttons, and the search bar stops taking taps under an expanded place card
Note that menu photo dates wait on recalibrating the photo listing call
Menus show up much more reliably
Vela tells you which side your destination is on, sheet buttons share one circle look, and the README slims down
Drag the route chooser from anywhere, sticky travel mode, wider zoomed-out search, filters clear map pins too, bookmark save icon, circled directions close
The minimized Start button waits for the chooser body to be nearly gone before growing in
The route chooser now minimizes under your finger with real inertia
Picking a time that already passed now says so instead of silently snapping to now
Search along route chips look tappable and you cannot schedule a trip in the past
The directions buttons match the rest of the app and estimated times drop the tilde
Depart at and arrive by feel deliberate now, the reviews tab gets a real rating histogram, menu photos carry their dates again, and the minimized card no longer shows map under it
Update the project notes for the sheet fold changes
The place card lands its minimize without the last moment hop, the results list folds its filter chips away with the sheet, and menu photos show when they were uploaded
Minimizing a scrolled place card scrolls it back to the top so the name is never stuck behind the handle
The place card fold now moves with the card and the reviews page only closes when you really pull it
Minimizing the place card now folds the extras away smoothly instead of swapping to a separate mini card
The reviews pull-to-close waits for your finger and springs back
A privacy comparison table joins the README
The full reviews page can be pulled down from its top to close
The parked car sheet is a single fixed height, no phantom minimize
The parked car sheet no longer loads the last place's reviews and photos
Update the viewer feature note for the activity-window fix
Drop the dead full-screen helper and update the viewer notes
Full-screen viewers move into the activity window, fixing edges and rotation
Note the full-screen viewer chrome fix in the docs
The viewers show the status bar over a gradient, Google's own treatment
OSM icons blend with the Google dots, and junction signs wait for street zoom
Full black behind the viewers, since the dialog window refuses the bars
Note the true-fullscreen viewer fix in the feature list
The viewer content demands the real display size, ending the inset strips
The viewers finally reach the screen edges on modern Android
A pushed notice can be a pop-up now, not just a map card
The viewers paint their whole window, killing the last see-through strips
The place card's extras slide away, and the viewers claim the whole screen
The place card fades as it minimizes, and the header circles stop lying
Note the menu photo fix in the feature list
The Menu tab stops collecting photos that were never the menu
The photo viewer goes properly full screen with Google's blurred backdrop
Menus become a real tab, and the review search tucks behind a magnifier
F-Droid setup leads with the one-line repo address, README mentions Material You
Fix a build break in the nav-exit camera reset
Ending navigation returns to a flat north-up map, and POI layers stop racing
Star button becomes the save menu, gallery survives rotation, breathing room
The place page catches up to the rest of Vela's look
Filter chips open real menus, and results can filter to wheelchair accessible
Picking a result opens full size again, and the bar stacks its two lines
Every POI label can pick a clear side of its icon, not just the map results
Result labels can sit beside the pin, not only under it
The sheets glide down for real, and the results bar names your search
Note the house-number dedup in the feature list
House numbers stop repeating across apartment complexes
Stop signs and traffic lights step aside during a search
Sheets glide down softly when you grab the map, place card included
Grabbing the map drops the results list out of the way
The gas price gets its own bold line with a pump glyph in the results
Result pins match the ambient marker shape, base POIs hide during a search
Gas stations show their live fuel price on the map, the list and the place page
Result pins keep the grey teardrop with a red circle, bubbles lose the star
Dense search results collapse into red dots, rated restaurants get bubbles
Navigation now buzzes when it reroutes, not just when a turn is coming
The route chooser swipes down to a slim bar so the route is visible
The results list rides its throws, and back exits the search in one press
Search results draw as named POI icons instead of red pins
A new place closes the route chooser, and the map buttons stay under it
Switching languages back no longer leaves Russian behind
Sweep the long dashes out of every translation
The voice picker shows Android default as its own choice
Release pruning that can actually see the whole list
The sheet rides out the throw instead of springing to the detent
Respect Android's default voice app when nothing is picked in Vela
Choose which voice app the mic uses
Smoother sheet animation and a less eager minimize
The voice demo is a slim black strip so the player reads as a player
The place card follows your finger and coasts to the nearest size
Vela Voice warms up before the first dictation
Transit lines start off by default
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Write down how the README's inline voice player gets its URL
The voice demo plays right inside the README
Screenshots without transit lines, and the voice demo says the new line the way the app would
Transit screenshot returns without the purple overlay, and the voice demo matches the app exactly
Test and playground speech ignore the mute switch
Screenshots lead with navigation, install moves below them, and the voice demo gets a real player
README leads with what people care about, plus a listenable nav-voice demo
Traffic conditions in words on route choices, and no surprise voice sample after installs
Refresh the README screenshots on 0.3.472
Bigger arrival time without the traffic note, and every nav card joins the stack
Docs pass for the permission, voice and notification work
One notification area on the map, a Get-a-voice shortcut, and a spoken directions toggle
Warn when you would arrive close to closing time
Update button on the update card is a filled pill
Approximate location gets a real circle and an explainer, and setup asks about notifications
Recents get a remove X and show addresses, Home and Work menus match their text
Ask for precise location when navigation needs it, and explain a dead locate button
Make the approximate-location blob actually visible, and polish the voice bits
Show a soft accuracy circle when the location is only approximate
Voice search: the mic now offers the Vela voice download, and installs are fast
Voice search polish: call it Vela voice, livelier pulse, cleaner transcripts
Document on-device voice search (privacy, features, architecture)
On-device voice search: mic capture, tiers, and the Settings download
On-device voice search: model hosting + Whisper recognizer engine
Capitalize Vela Voice and quiet down the Voice library copy
Tighten every Settings description and drop the leftover clutter
Reframe the Offline maps section: local area vs whole states and countries
Rename Offline to Offline maps, move it above Search, simplify the region filter
Simplify the offline Map area and Routing regions descriptions
Settings tweaks: clearer offline text, content filters back with place content
Declutter Settings: Advanced and Developer groups, shorter language and voice sections
Ask for location right at Get started, drop the extra rationale screen
Trim onboarding to three steps and give dialog buttons a filled pill
Voice search mic in the search bar
Polish the onboarding prompts
Ask for location in onboarding with a reason, and make the voice offer an honest choice
Update straight from Settings
Docs-only pushes stop cutting nightlies
Docs: which surfaces follow Material You and which stay neutral
Docs: how the F-Droid channels and triggers actually work
F-Droid repo suggests the stable; nightlies become opt-in unstable
F-Droid index actually refreshes on every nightly now
Material You dynamic colours (issue #15)
Document the infrastructure releases so nobody deletes the download backend again
Nightly pruning only touches v0 tags
Prune nightlies past the newest 14
Fix crash on open on Android 10 and below when a location provider is disabled
F-Droid badge next to the Obtainium one
Recents mix places and searches in one timeline, saved rows readable in dark mode
House numbers draw above buildings again
List notes stick to chain stores, show inside the list, and the list shows its name
Audit cleanup: dead code out, stale comments fixed, shared helpers deduplicated
Audit fixes: version-skew data wipe, feature id padding, five smaller bugs
Street names stay readable over routes, keypad focus ring stops clipping the first letter
Map labels always win over stop signs, compass clears the search bar, demo dot stays blue
F-Droid repo: install fdroidserver from pip, apt's is too old for modern APKs
Fresh Davis screenshots and a plain-words guide to parking, lists and import
Demo drive shows the real nav notification too
Add a self-hosted F-Droid repository built and published by CI
Nav notification shows the turn: arrow glyph, ETA clock, lock-screen detail
Tone the lists ribbon down to chip grey in dark mode
Move Your lists out of the search page into the ribbon button's own menu
Fix crash when switching light/dark theme in the app
Lists map ribbon + export/import, light-mode status bar icons, D-pad highlights, nightly update channel
List import: preview + opt-in Save, not silent auto-save
Local place lists (issue #1) + parking history
Parking v2 (own button + map pin + car sheet), Google Maps list import, department-hours alignment
Docs: tidy the department-hours entry; write up the proven list-import extraction
Save my parking spot; department hours nest under the main Hours row
Show in-store department hours on the place sheet
Docs: location hygiene is a judgment call, not a blanket ban
Docs: location hygiene rules for contributors and AI assistants
Fix department hours mashing into store status; locate button back to the stock FAB
Locate button matches the chip surfaces; arrive step drops the duplicate street line
Locate button: back to full size with a lifted circle
Google-style locate button, radio label spacing, Davis test coords, parking-spot roadmap
Make every Settings toggle a visible D-pad focus stop
Replace a few remaining local street names in comments with Davis examples
Stops always open the editor + a full docs cleanup pass
Post-merge tweaks for the Android Auto PR
Dot outlines, teal you-pin, ink flag, no ghost route in walk mode
Exact-constant walking dots, blue me-pin + flag grammar, tap to restore the card
AA: fix NAVIGATE handler crash on geo: URIs (opaque — getQueryParameter throws)
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Google-style dots, stops editor sheet, swipe never closes the place sheet
D-pad: pressing up at the top of Settings lands on Back, not lost focus
Android Auto: full car-side nav (search/route/guide) + map-matching + smoothing
Fix the add-stop banner rendering black in dark mode + walking dots that don't scale
Search along route: picks add a stop, distances follow the trip, fix grey chips
Arrive step names the destination + an X to close search results
Route picker: only one route wears the Fastest tag
D-pad polish: Settings focus trap, dialog scroll, hybrid-phone search tap
CI: fall back to the upstream tts-runtime release so fork PRs don't 404
Fix Settings jank/ANR from voice-engine enumeration in composition
Fix the fastest route not always leading the route picker
Add a "Hide website & external links" setting
Add a "Hide adult categories" setting
Nav: show the full trip ETA before the first GPS fix
Make the directions chips match the rest of Vela
Add a simulate-my-location demo toggle and refresh the screenshots
Fix the search bar not opening on ordinary phones
Search framing: stop the camera snapping back after fitting the results
D-pad: focus rings on every place-sheet action, fix Choose-on-map, add exhaustive auditors
Add dpad_test_suite: reproducible on-device D-pad checks
D-pad: bare map opens on the search bar, not an engaged map
D-pad: Welcome Get-started now auto-focuses on every screen size
docs: record the menu/dialog auto-focus solution (VelaMenu/VelaDialog)
D-pad: menus now auto-focus too (VelaMenu) -- secondary-window gap closed
D-pad: dialogs now auto-focus (VelaDialog, raw-Dialog pattern)
D-pad: finish proving the secondary-window focus limit (menus + dialogs)
D-pad: document the Compose secondary-window focus limit (menus + dialogs)
D-pad: add robust off-screen auto-focus + document menu/dialog limits
D-pad: place focus on every screen so no keypress is wasted
D-pad: make the full-screen reviews WebView scroll by D-pad
D-pad: close the last touch-only gaps found in a full-app sweep
Add full D-pad / no-touchscreen operation
Results sheet: back never exits the app, camera frames the pin cluster
Results sheet: back steps one size down, and the top stays visible
Nightly and weekly release channels
Search results now rise from the bottom, like Google
Fix content falling off the bottom on short screens (scroll)
Directions: scroll the travel-mode chips so Bike isn't clipped
Transit: schedule a departure/arrival time (+ date, + Last available)
Transit: step-by-step trip guidance (Moovit-style)
Transit: turn-by-turn walking directions within a walk leg
Transit: full stop detail in the leg drill-down
Polish the search results panel: filled chips, no hide button, cleaner hiding
Tap a house number or building to open its address
Cut the 0.3 release line
Refresh the app screenshots on a Pixel 9
Restyle chips as full pills and rebuild the search results sheet
Add contributing guidelines, security policy, and issue templates
Reorganize Settings and freshen up the navigation look
Give the Check for updates button some room above the gesture bar
Documentation crawl: fix stale claims and catch everything up
In-app updater, plus smoother panning when zoomed way in
Android Auto support, first cut
Settings to hide reviews and skip photo loading
Offline place packs now update themselves instead of going stale
Share the download progress counter between the offline stores
Stream the place pack build so country sized regions fit CI
Whole-state offline place packs, so searching offline works like Organic Maps
Nudge older saved areas to pull offline address data
Offline polish: POI addresses, honest ETA, and move the offline chip
Add true offline address routing and a quiet offline indicator
Match a POI's address in offline search
Transit lines on by default; robust multi-word offline search
Make offline category search work (gas, coffee, food)
Fix blank origin picker so "Choose on map" is reachable
Make the minimized place card show the name, not photos
Voice library: show top voices per language with "Show more"
Drop em-dashes from the English UI text
Fix Settings not scrolling to Offline from the onboarding prompt
Put a real changelog in each GitHub release
Show offline search guidance instead of a raw host error
Place sheet: minimize-first swipe and fix disappearing POIs
Add a transit-line highlight layer (train + subway)
Add "Choose on map" to build a route between two points
Keep the map camera put on sheet close and Settings exit
Collapse voice library into per-language groups
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Add an offline maps prompt to onboarding
search: handle offline properly (issue #3)
readme: move screenshots above the "why Google" note
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readme: add a short "why a degoogled app uses Google" note
build: debug-only network security config trusting user CAs (re: PR #4)
docs: Obtainium install badge + doc-drift sweep (second-pass audit)
nav: font-scale-safe overlays (issue #2) + second-pass regression fixes
voice: revert default speed to 0.8 + download card ("Vela voice", Installing phase)
voice: extraction progress (no more 98% park) + download card over the map; drop the remote-config notice
voice: force final-consonant release ("lef"→"left") + fix 152nd reading
docs: re-shoot screenshots 01/02/04/06/07 — clean status bar (no Asana icons)
docs: sync calibration v11 / voice speed 0.72 note in CLAUDE.md
voice: lower default spoken-directions speed 0.8 → 0.72 (calmer + clearer)
nav: bigger + always-visible traffic controls; fold pure-rename "Continue" cards
map: stale-response guards, replay-stop, resume lifecycle (Fable audit batch 4/4)
voice/web/offline: focus leaks, interrupt latency, download + WebView races (Fable audit batch 3/4)
nav/routing: localize offline routes + refine light landmarks + area POIs (Fable audit batch 2/4)
scraper: harden parser calibration + JS sandbox (Fable audit batch 1/4)
nav: demo/simulate-driving mode — drive any route with no real GPS
docs: re-shoot place-sheet screenshots with upright POI labels
poi: upright labels during search + conspicuous dropped-pin coordinates
directions: editing the origin no longer clears the destination
poi: name-aware icon grouping fixes grey-generic YMCA (matches Google + OSM)
place: Street View pill opens Google's keyless pano externally (in-app WebView is black)
docs: Street View investigated — keyless in a browser, WebGL-black in a WebView (reverted)
search: fix Open-now (hours fallback), add Sort chip; chips: monochrome glyphs
i18n: fix Dutch keep-LEFT at keep-RIGHT forks (safety) + uk genitive + locale parity
map: POI label text matches the icon's category colour in BOTH themes
docs: refresh Davis map screenshots (new POI label placement + icons)
places: first-class "Temporarily closed" (banner + hours suppression, 11 langs)
perf: quarter house-number placement load (bake z17); labels: fix the far-label state
overlays: stream the UNION of covering regions — fixes St Joseph's missing buildings
voice: arrival semicolon prosody + crisper consonants; map: cap controls symbols
nav: fix the doubled "head out on out on" opener at nav start
docs: house-number layers are minZoom 17.5 now (Google street-level parity)
map: house numbers only at street zoom (17.5); voice: drain audio so prompts can't chop each other
docs: drop stale 'placed ON TOP' phrase superseded by the layer-order fix
map: fix POI icons vanishing at z16+ (addr numbers evicted them) + doubled numbers
map: pull POI labels closer to the icon (radial offset 2.0 → 1.4)
map: tighten POI labels toward the icon + fall back to under-icon on collision
replay: clear the route line + snap the dot back to real location on teardown
docs: u-turn abandon now gates on onRouteStreak, not bare !offRoute
nav: harden reroute-abandon (sustained rejoin, not one grazing fix) + replay stale-timer
docs: record replay arrow/GPS fixes, u-turn back-on-course, incidents defer
nav: abandon an in-flight reroute when the driver returns to the original route
replay: show the directional arrow + stop real GPS snapping the puck back
map: surface schools + parks as ambient POIs (the real fix)
Fix 3 defects from adversarial review of this turn's changes
map: draw traffic lights + stop signs (keyless OSM, high zoom)
nav: silence "use the lanes to continue" for turn bays, keep it for real forks
POIs: fetch national parks + confirm schools/parks are iconed
Nav: traffic-light landmark guidance ("pass the light, then turn") — off by default
Address overlay: county-aggregate mode for the 10 non-statewide states
Nav: silence straight renames; steadier voice consonants
docs: record the nav drive-report fixes + traffic-light plan
Nav: consolidate exit ramp + fork/merge into one instruction
Nav: bridge route-line z-order, feet increments, voice state-route refs
docs: update route-sort note (sort by displayed ETA, supersedes gRatio)
Nav: fastest route always leads the picker + compass clears the banner
Address overlay: CI pipeline for the 42 statewide OpenAddresses states
Overlay: stream open house-number labels (OpenAddresses)
Overlay: stream footprints online — no download needed to see houses
Overlay: chunk big countries by quadkey prefix (buildable + downloadable)
Overlay build: parallel, disk-lean ms-global downloads
Building overlays: world catalog — 51 US states + ~199 countries
Localize the resume-navigation strings into all 10 languages
Overlay rendering + fix silent large-download timeout
Overlay: shrink tiles — z14 min (was z12), drop no-size-limit
Overlay (step 3): app-side download store + hook (pipeline proven E2E)
Overlay (step 2): CI matrix workflow + manifest merge (buildings PMTiles)
Nav: persist + resume navigation across a process kill
Nav audio: revert pause -> MAY_DUCK (music didn't resume); keep the hold
Nav: 4 drive-reported fixes (rename voice, roundabout exit, sort, compass)
Overlay (step 1): buildings-PMTiles build script + region catalog
Nav audio: duck harder + hold focus so music ducks reliably
Nav: posted speed-limit badge from OSM maxspeed (on-device GraphHopper)
Map: fix building footprints (empty maxzoom range) + house numbers z16
POI markers: grey teardrop pin + labels to the left of the icon
POI markers: grey pin/bubble backing, drop the white ring
Voice: don't read a language through a mismatched neural voice
Onboarding: Vela voice recommended for everyone; refresh Davis screenshots; docs consistency pass
Trip replay overhaul: route segments, hermetic playback, trace-time puck
Navigation audit remediation: 40+ fixes across position, guidance, rendering, audio
Nav tracking overhaul + real continue-silence + closed-place status truth
Nav voice: lanes-first preface, drop redundant "continue", raise photo caption
fix: review-photo caption really fixed on Android 15/16 (Pixel 9)
fix: review-photo caption invisible on Android 15+ (Pixel 9) + bright photos
i18n: localize Google POI content (categories/hours/status) via hl + numeric status code
i18n: localize the search-category chips (decouple label from query)
i18n: translate the app UI into 10 languages + localize ViewModel/notification
i18n: externalize ~330 :app UI strings to resources (English)
i18n: runtime locale-switch mechanism (attachBaseContext + recreate)
i18n: in-app language picker (Settings → Language)
i18n: pair the download voice to the app language
i18n: spoken navigation now speaks 10 languages
nav: speak lane guidance ("use the right 2 lanes") from OSRM lane data
i18n: localize NavSession spoken lines + the Test-voice sample
i18n: AppLocale — follow the system language, drive the nav-text locale
i18n: route NavEngine spoken frame + forSpeech through NavStrings
i18n: introduce the NavStrings foundation (nav-text localization seam)
Voice: splice a short beat at commas/semicolons so clauses don't run together
Voice: fix stale trash icon on delete + silent-until-restart after download
Voice catalog goes multilingual: group by language + per-language voices
Voice: default to HFC Female @ 0.8× (remote-settable default voice id)
Voice library: browse, download & switch between many Piper voices
PlaceSheet: put Directions up top, phone/website below the hours
Voice: read 3-digit street ordinals + stop clipping the nav-start prompt
Place-sheet settle (star-on-top, contact rows) + viewport search + LRU POI cache
Place-sheet: scrollable action pills (Call shows number) + lean header; faster POI HTTP
Place-sheet redesign (Save/Share→header, wide Directions), driving-haptics-off, POI zoom cache
Polish: per-mode haptics, 0.7 voice default, collapsed TTS, prominence sizing, smoother pan
Ambient POIs: hand only near-view + cap 140 — fix Pixel 5a drag lag
Fix "fewer POIs" regression (hand map all, let collision limit) + replay voice engine
Map POIs: deeper + broader + zoom-scaled ambient coverage
Map POIs: rank ambient Google places by real prominence, not category-term order
Voice picker: type a variant number to jump (not just ◀ ▶ step)
Voice: push speaker 14 + 0.8 default, remote-settable speed, sentence-pause at periods
Voice speed control + remote-default speaker; fix Search-this-area + POI ranking
Holiday hours: surface Google's special-hours label as a callout
Voice: swap to libritts_r (more expressive) + a speaker picker
Reclaim disk from removed Kokoro/Matcha voice models on launch
Voices: drop Kokoro + Matcha, Piper is the sole "Vela voice"
Settings: make the Offline section collapsible (collapsed by default)
Add Matcha neural voice (balanced: realtime + warmer than Piper)
Voice: fp32 Kokoro (~2x faster) + upgrade path + a text playground
Add a fast Piper voice alongside Kokoro (13x faster) + research on faster Kokoro
Kokoro voice: fix accent (en-us), first-run voice prompt, latency findings
In-app Kokoro neural voice (runs inside Vela, no SherpaTTS app) + POI two-stage collapse
Reviews: harden native photo caption scrape (author·date shows reliably)
Voice: offer SherpaTTS/Kokoro; reviews button relabel + declutter; POI photo LRU cache
Reviews polish: bold search matches, sheet handle (tap/scroll-to-expand), fix full-screen viewer
Reviews architecture pivot: native inline list + full-screen "Read all" Google panel
Reviews header: center the rating row above the histogram; un-clip the search field
Reviews panel: center histogram; chip-less businesses get search/sort; gesture smoke passed
Reviews panel: un-stick engaged mode, kill the resize flicker, hold reveal for ALL carves
Native review search/sort/chips + streamed, pre-warmed POI photos
Reviews panel: no histogram dupe — fade requires native data, reveal waits for fade
Reviews panel: class-agnostic watchdog (healthy panels were being killed)
Reviews panel round 4: zero-flash summary fade; engaged panel takes the WHOLE sheet
Reviews panel round 3: engaged clears all chrome; flicker/fling/flash fixes; system font
Reviews panel: narrower native histogram, engaged-hide, "?" row, font unify, flash fix
Reviews panel polish: momentum handoff, sheet takeover, native histogram, load UX, feed watchdog
Scroll-sync v2: forward boundary drags to the sheet (handoff didn't survive real fingers)
Reviews panel: scroll-sync (boundary handoff to the Vela sheet)
Reviews: fix dropped photos (jsaction key) + author/date caption; flatten lane arrows
Reviews panel: tap-to-view photos + full load gate; nav preview/steps/lanes
Reviews panel polish: Sort works, hide Like/Share/⋮, keyboard drops, gold stars
Reviews panel: fix disappearing-on-scroll (promo strip nuked the review list)
Reviews panel: strip Google chrome + seamless Vela-matched background
Live Google reviews panel: the visible-WebView idea, shipped (experimental)
Reviews scrape 2.1x faster overall: taller viewport + trimmed settle
Reviews scrape ~37% faster: 250 ms poll ticks (wall-clock windows preserved)
Reviews: stream into the list while loading + reach the 50-cap on busy places
Nav puck: Kalman speed fusion w/ accelerometer + review-scrape/UI fixes
Reviews: live loading progress (counter + bar) — the scrape wait is visible now
Reviews: fix still-3-on-businesses, add search + code-review-pass fixes
Photo categories: populate fully (viewport) — fix ~1-per-category sparsity
Docs: menu-link button deferred (fragile path; menu covered by photo Menu tab)
Q&A: triaged — login-gated, not keyless; documented + scaffold removed
Photo gallery: category tabs (Menu / Food & drink / Vibe / By owner)
Multi-stop follow-ups: per-stop arrival cue, reroute-through-remaining, reorder
Docs: menu-link probe finding (not in [75]; needs a focused capture)
Reviews: load ~40 (not 3) via WebView viewport + jJc9Ad + review-id dedup
Multi-stop directions (waypoints)
Incidents: WebView path investigated — bottoms out at binary vt tiles
Directions: show "+N min" delta on slower alternates
Investigate traffic incidents (keyless), document finding + paths
Nav: gate compound "then" preview on maneuver spacing + next-step shield
Fix lanes showing miles early + business name leaking into address
Hours: parse ALL ranges + surface holiday labels; the fallback is holiday-aware
Search: rank the main store above its departments; hours status back to Google-primary
Place: compute open/closed from hours (past-midnight-aware) + status/traffic diagnostics
Routing: rank routes by per-alternate live ETA (fastest leads) + directions-protocol spec
Routing: name-on-pick — provisional alternates, named only when you choose one
Routing: bring back alternates — surface Google's own alternate routes
Nav: reject reroute/faster candidates that don't reach the destination
Routing: snap to Google's path only when it's actually faster; docs sweep
Docs: refresh the front door — current features + a features→method→code map
Nav: real Google-style per-lane diagram from OSRM lane data
Nav: capture OSRM highway refs/exits, retry OSRM, tighten route-gradient lag
Settings: merge 'Offline maps' + 'Offline routing' into one 'Offline' section
Docs: world routing catalog complete (137 regions) + offline-routing in SPEC
Offline routing: pick the SMALLEST covering region (border-overlap fix)
Offline routing: add a name filter to the region picker
CI: fix group-path region selection (empty ids → [] not [""])
graphbuilder: bump import heap 6g→12g for country-sized regions on CI
CI: serialize routing-graph runs so concurrent dispatches can't race the manifest
Offline routing: world region catalog + race-safe parallel build pipeline
Offline: combine map+routing downloads, location-aware routing picker, fix region bbox
Routing: host offline-routing graphs on GitHub releases (offline routing goes live)
Routing: multi-region offline graphs — download several, route in whichever covers the trip
Routing (Phase 1b-ii): per-region graph download + offline routing END-TO-END (on-device verified)
Routing (Phase 1b perf): Contraction Hierarchies make on-device routing fast (7.6s -> 188ms)
Routing (Phase 1b-i): wire on-device engine into directions() as the offline fallback
Routing (Phase 1a): GraphHopper RouteEngine in :core, R8-proven for release
ghprobe: PROVE GraphHopper v11 routing + map-matching works on Android (on-device test PASSES)
ROADMAP: on-device engine = GraphHopper (not Valhalla); spike + sizing + dep scan
Routing: traffic-aware path (option 3) — snap OSRM to Google's route only on jam-divergence
Routing: open router (OSRM) is now PRIMARY; Google demoted to traffic + fallback
Directions: place turns by step-fraction, not polyline length (fixes mis-placed turns)
Fix: recenter no-op, photo shimmer on addresses, parallel-Nominatim street-fill
Polish: declutter ambient POIs, POI-tap over chooser, reverse-geocode bare turns, search "Hide" bar
Nav: dashed walk/bike route line + mock-nav test proving turn road names
Photos: full gallery via place-page scrape (replaces the degraded RPC) + loading shimmer
Photos: dial back the gallery retry — degradation is per-session, not transient
Photos: retry the gallery fetch — it's intermittent keyless, not gated
Photos: de-dup the hero + fold in [204] preview; document the gated gallery
Photos: fix blank hero strip — Google moved search photos [105]→[72]
Reviews: open the full list + keep-best so heavy places (Taco Bell) load
Reviews: fix author/text scraping + faster load; denser ambient POIs
Reviews: restore via hidden WebView + finally get per-review photos
Map: fan out ambient POIs across category terms (~2x coverage)
Map: ambient POIs — zoom-tracking viewport for coverage + clear on zoom-out
Map: ambient Google POIs as category dots, Google-first over OSM
Map: ambient Google POIs on the bare browse map (v1)
Map: enable two-finger tilt to 3D (explicit, max pitch 70°)
Nav: fix generic turn arrows + line-gradient spam (on-device diagnosis)
Nav: regression-test that voice speaks the road name ("onto Larch Way")
Nav: offline auditor — diff cards/voice vs the plotted route from a saved trip
Nav: real highway-shield shapes in the maneuver banner (v1, US + Canada)
Nav: regression tests for today's bugs + TTS expands road abbreviations
Nav: fix maneuvers 6 mi out of sync + TTS ignoring Imperial units
Nav/browse: sensor compass for the heading cone when stopped (OsmAnd-style)
Nav: speed-adaptive position low-pass + gradient cut tracks the per-frame arrow
Nav: fix replay stuck "stationary" (sanePosition rejected every fix)
Nav: per-frame follow-camera (fix the "stiff" throttled-ease feel)
Nav: reject GPS position outliers + hold the dot at a standstill
Nav: solid gradient cut, smooth puck-follow, zoom locks + keeps tracking
Nav: camera glide, speed-spike reject, full POI declutter
Nav: fix pinch-zoom snapping back + grey-split not under the arrow
Nav tuning instrumentation + finding: stop-detection already handled
Nav: predictive camera — aim ahead of the puck to see into turns
Nav: pinch-zoom during navigation without losing the follow-camera
Nav: continuous speed→zoom (stop the "zooms in and back" oscillation)
Nav: forward-only map matching (OsmAnd-style), no more global re-snap
Reviews: widen the auto-retry window (~1.2s -> ~3s)
Reviews: honest "couldn't load · tap to retry" state (not "no reviews")
Reviews: retry the intermittent empty fetch (count-vs-zero mismatch)

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