SpriteOvO/AirPodsDesktop v0.5.0

AirPodsDesktop v0.5.0

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This is a Beta version, if you get any questions or bugs while using it, please feel free to open an issue to let us know.

📜 Change log

1. Supported AirPods 4, AirPods 4 (ANC) and AirPods Pro 3, each with its own animation.
2. Completed all 59 strings in German, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
3. Fixed the close button overlapping long device names.
4. Fixed the information popup's DPI scaling, rounded corners and screen placement.
5. Fixed a crash that could happen while quitting.
6. Fixed the window freezing when binding or unbinding a device.
7. Fixed the tray icon reading "Disconnected" instead of "Waiting for Binding" before a device is bound.
8. Fixed the update prompt showing an empty change log.
9. Fixed pre-release users being silently moved to the stable-only update channel.
10. Fixed the app losing track of an AirPods binding that no longer exists.
11. Update installers are now verified against the release digest before they run.
12. Rebuilt the internal architecture into layered modules and added a first-party test suite.

✨ New devices

AirPods 4, AirPods 4 (ANC) and AirPods Pro 3 are recognised, and each shows its own animation
rather than borrowing an older model's.

🛠️ Reliability

Several long-standing rough edges around the window and the Bluetooth layer are gone:

• The information popup now scales correctly on high-DPI displays, keeps its rounded corners, and
  anchors to the working area rather than drifting over the taskbar.
• Long device names no longer run underneath the close button.
• Quitting is now clean. The advertisement watcher is stopped before the state manager it calls
  into is torn down, closing a window where a Bluetooth callback could arrive mid-shutdown.
• Binding or unbinding a device no longer stalls the window. The blocking Bluetooth query was
  running on the UI thread, and the settings lock was held across a full paired-device enumeration.
• A binding that points at a device Windows no longer knows about now clears itself instead of
  leaving the app stuck.

🔄 Updates

• The update prompt shows the change log again. The parser could not read this project's own
  release notes, so every prompt appeared blank.
• Users on a pre-release build are offered pre-release updates again. The check that decides this
  was failing silently and falling back to the stable channel.
• Downloaded installers are checked against the SHA-256 digest published with the release before
  they are executed.
• Releases are now built, packaged and published automatically from a tag, with optional installer
  signing when a certificate is configured.

🔧 Under the hood

The codebase is split into layered targets — support, domain, core, presentation and GUI — with a
one-way dependency direction, so the protocol and state logic no longer depend on Qt widgets or on
Windows APIs. That layering is what makes the new test suite possible: 19 cases now cover
advertisement parsing, two-sided state merging, RSSI and model filtering, settings persistence,
release metadata parsing, digest verification, and the main window's presentation model — none of
which need a Bluetooth radio or a window to run.

⚠️ Known issues

• The AirPods 4 (ANC) animation is currently the same file as the AirPods 4 one. The two models
  look nearly identical, so the difference is hard to spot, but it will be corrected.
• AirPodsDesktop.exe is not code-signed in this release, so Windows SmartScreen may warn on first
  run. Verify the checksum below if you want to confirm the download.

✅ Checksum

AirPodsDesktop-0.5.0-win32.exe

AirPodsDesktop-0.5.0-win32-portable.zip

Full Changelog: 0.4.2...v0.5.0